Environmental Protection: “Doing Good and Avoiding Bad”. A Multi-Disciplinary Thinking to Change Our Minds
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 7769
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cognitive psychology; health psychology; decision making applied to several contexts including health and environment; health-related quality of life analysis and health interventions evaluation
Interests: public attitudes towards climate change; economics of the commons; industrial and labour economics; economics and spirituality; the arts in economics education
Interests: sustainability strategy in religious organisations; organisational paradox; sustainable entrepreneurship and accountability; critical Anthropocene studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental protection has been often described as “doing good and avoiding bad” in the natural environment, but its underlying roots can be quite complex and arise from combinations of political, economic, pedagogical, cultural, spiritual, organizational and psychological changes involving macro and micro level decisions in communities. The social sciences are therefore fundamental both to ensuring a comprehensive understanding of environmental protection strategies and developing more sustainable development pathways in the future.
This call for papers explores the relationship between environmental issues and human behaviour in a social context. Social sciences applied to environmental research are not purely theoretic fields but rather include much applied theory and research on how people think about and respond to environmental challenges (to give some examples: water shortage, energy demand, global warming, food security, or waste management).
This call for papers encompasses research and theory on human behaviours, attitudes, values, and culture as well as how to promote policies and develop interventions on the social, political and economic dimensions of environmental issues. The call is open to a wide interdisciplinary range of social science disciplines including economics, psychology, education, sociology, religious studies and political science.
This call is openly soliciting original papers, both research and review types, which are either empirical or theoretical contributions to environmental research topics with broad interests across the social sciences. Topics of interest include but are not limited to*:
- Motivating people to change their behaviours
- Encourage people to rethink their positions in the natural world
- Help people to live more sustainable lives
- Discuss theoretical aspects of environmental protection education
*Please note that this call for papers is not focused on technical or engineering solutions
Dr. Silvia Riva
Dr. Gherardo Girardi
Dr. Roland Daw
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental protection and environmental attitudes
- pro-environmental behaviours
- environmental education
- ecospirituality
- climate change mitigation
- climate change adaptation
- interdisciplinarity
- sustainability
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