A review of the foundational processes that influence beliefs in climate change: opportunities for environmental education research

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-20

  Brownlee, Matthew T J ^a   Powell, Robert B ^b   Hallo, Jeffery C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; communication; environmental education; environmental psychology; interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874472408     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2012.683389     Document Type: Article

References (128)

1. Adler, J.H. 2003. Fables of the Cuyahoga: Reconstructing a history of environmental protection. Fordham Environmental Law Journal, XIV: 89-146.
2. Ajzen, I. 1991. The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50: 179-211.
3. Ajzen, I. 2002. Perceived behavioral control, self-efficacy, locus of control, and the theory of planned behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32: 665-683.
4. Allum, N., Sturgis, P., Tabourazi, D. and Brunton-Smith, I. 2008. Science knowledge and attitudes across cultures: A meta-analysis. Public Understanding of Science, 17: 35-54.
5. Altman, I. and Low, S.M., eds. 1992. Place attachment, New York, NY: Plenum Press.
6. Altman, I. and Rogoff, B. 1987. "World view in psychology: Trait, interactionist, organismic, and transactionalist approaches". In Handbook of environmental psychology, Edited by: Stokols, D. and Altman, I. 245-281. New York, NY: Wiley.
7. Archer, D. and Wearing, S. 2003. Self, space, and interpretive experience: The interactionism of environmental interpretation. Journal of Interpretation Research, 8(1): 7-23.
8. Atkinson, R.L., Atkinson, R.C., Smith, E.E. and Hilgard, E.R. 1987. Introduction to psychology, New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
9. Baldwin, E.D. and Judd, R.W. 2010. "Why history matters in conservation planning". In Landscape-scale conservation planning, Edited by: Trombulak, S.C. and Baldwin, R.F. 33-52. New York, NY: Springer.
10. Bechtel, R.B. and Tsertsman, A. 2002. Handbook of environmental psychology, New York, NY: Wiley.
11. Beck, L. and Cable, T. 2011. The gifts of interpretation, Champaign, IL: Sagamore.
12. Bonnes, M., Lee, T. and Bonaiuto, M., eds. 2003. Psychological theories for environmental issues, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
13. Boyce, T. and Lewis, J., eds. 2009. Climate change and the media, New York, NY: Peter Lang.
14. Boyd, R. and Richerson, P. 1985. Culture and the evolutionary process, Chicago, IL: The Chicago Press.
15. Brehm, S.S. and Brehm, J.W. 1981. Psychological reactance, New York, NY: Academic Press.
16. Brehm, J.W. and Cohen, A.R. 1962. Explorations in cognitive dissonance, New York, NY: Wiley.
17. Brownlee, M.T.J., and J.C. Hallo. 2011a. Recreationists' perceptions of climate change at Lake Hartwell, SC. Technical report provided to US Army Corps of Engineers, Clemson University.
18. Brownlee, M.T.J., and J.C. Hallo. 2011b. Visitors' perceptions of climate change at Kenai Fjords national park: Global beliefs and park-specific attitudes. Technical report provided to Kenai Fjords National Park, Clemson University.
19. Card, N.A. 2012. Applied meta-analysis for social science research, New York, NY: Guilford Press.
20. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED). 2009. The psychology of climate change communication. http://www.cred.columbia.edu/guide/.
21. Cialdini, R.B. 2003. Crafting normative messages to protect the environment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12: 105-109.
22. Cialdini, R.B. 2007. Descriptive social norms as underappreciated sources of social control. Psychometrika, 72: 263-268.
23. Clayton, S. 2003. "Environmental identity: A conceptual and an operational definition". In Identity and the natural environment: The psychological significance of nature, Edited by: Clayton, S. and Opotow, S. 45-65. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
24. Clayton, S. and Myers, G. 2009. Conservation psychology, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
25. Clayton, S. and Opotow, S. 2003. Identity and the natural environment, Cambridge: MIT Press.
26. Climate Change Response Strategy, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 2010. Climate change response strategy. http://www.nature.nps.gov/climatechange/docs/NPS_CCRS.pdf.
27. Cornelissen, G., Pandelaere, M., Warlop, L. and Dewitte, S. 2008. Positive cueing: Promoting sustainable consumer behavior by cueing common environmental behaviors as environmental. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 25: 46-55.
28. Dagher, Z.R. and BouJaoude, S. 1997. Scientific views and religious beliefs of college students: The case of biological evolution. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 34: 429-445.
29. Dietz, T., Gardner, G.T., Gilligan, J., Stern, P.C. and Vandenbergh, M.P. 2009. Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 106: 18452-18456.
30. Disinger, J.F. 2005. "The purposes of environmental education". In Environmental education and advocacy, Edited by: Mappin, M. and Johnson, E. 137-158. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. Earle, T.C. 2004. Thinking aloud about trust: A protocol analysis of trust in risk management. Risk Analysis, 24: 169-183.
32. Ellickson, R.C. 1991. Order without law: How neighbors settle disputes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
33. Epstein, S. 1994. Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious. American Psychologist, 49: 709-724.
34. Feygina, I., Jost, J.T. and Goldsmith, R.E. 2010. System justification, the denial of global warming, and the possibility of 'system-sanctioned change'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36: 326-338.
35. Gardner, T. and Stern, P. 2002. Environmental problems and human behavior, 2nd ed., Boston, MA: Pearson.
36. Gifford, R. 2011. The dragons of inaction. American Psychologist, 66: 290-302.
37. Gray, P. 1991. Psychology, New York, NY: Worth.
38. Gregory, J. and Miller, S. 2000. Science in public: Communication, culture and credibility, London: Perseus.
39. Halpenny, E.A. 2010. Pro-environmental behaviors and park visitors: The effect of place attachment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30: 409-421.
40. Ham, S.H. 1992. Environmental interpretation, Golden, CO: Fulcrum.
41. Ham, S.H., T.J. Brown, J. Curtis, B. Weiler, M. Hughes, and M. Poll. 2007. Promoting persuasion in protected areas: A guide for managers. Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. Technical report.
42. Hammitt, W.E., Backlund, E.A. and Bixler, R.D. 2006. Place bonding for recreation places: Conceptual and empirical development. Leisure Studies, 25: 17-41.
43. Hammitt, W.E., Kyle, G.T. and Oh, C. 2009. Comparison of place bonding models in recreation resource management. Journal of Leisure Research, 41: 57-72.
44. Hardin, G. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162: 1243-1248.
45. Hassol, S.J. Communicating climate change and solutions. Paper presented at the national council for science and the environment conference. Washington.
46. Hatfield, J. and Job, R.F.S. 2001. Optimism bias about environmental degradation: The role of the range of impact of precautions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21: 17-30.
47. Heimlich, J. and Ardoin, N. 2008. Understanding behavior to understand behavior change: A literature review. Environmental Education Research, 14: 215-237.
48. Heintzman, P. 2010. Nature-based recreation and spirituality: A complex relationship. Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32: 72-89.
49. Hendee, J.C. and Dawson, C.P. 2002. Wilderness management: Stewardship and protection of resources and values, Golden, CO: Fulcrum.
50. Hines, J.M., Hungerford, H.R. and Tomera, A.N. 1987. Analysis and synthesis of research on responsible environmental behavior: A meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Education, 18: 1-8.
51. Hulme, M. 2009. Why we disagree about climate change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
52. Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC). 2007. Climate change 2007: The contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
53. Irwin, A. and Wynne, B. 1996. Misunderstanding science? The public reconstruction of science and technology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
54. Jacobson, S.K. 1999. Communication skills for conservation professionals, Washington, DC: Island Press.
55. Jennings, A. 2006. The invisible matrix: The evolution of altruism, culture, human behavior, and the memory network, Mountain View, CA: Veritas Books.
56. Johnson, C.Y. 1998. A consideration of collective memory in African American attachment to wildland recreation places. Human Ecology Review, 5: 5-15.
57. Kahn, P. 1999. The human relationship with nature: Development and culture, London: The MIT Press.
58. Kates, R. 1986. Review: Normal accidents: Living with high-risk systems. The Professional Geographer, 8: 121-122.
59. Knudson, D., Cable, T. and Beck, L. 2003. Interpretation of cultural and natural resources, State College, PA: Venture.
60. Kruger, L.E. 2004. A social science perspective on the importance of scale. In H. Gucinski, Proceedings: Views from the ridge-considerations for planning at the landscape scale. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the United States Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. General Technical Report (PNW-GTR-596).
61. Larimer, M.E. and Neigbors, G. 2003. Normative misperception and the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on college student gambling. Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 17: 235-243.
62. Lazarus, R.J. 2009. Super wicked problems and climate change: Restraining the present to liberate the future. Georgetown Law: Faculty Publications. http://www.scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/159/.
63. Leiserowitz, A. 2004. Before and after the day after tomorrow: A US study of climate change risk perception. Environment, 46: 22-37.
64. Leiserowitz, A. 2006. Climate change risk perception and policy preferences: The role of affect, imagery, and values. Climatic Change, 77: 45-72.
65. Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E. and Roser-Renouf, C. 2010. Climate change in the American mind: America's global warming beliefs and attitudes in January 2010, New Haven, CT: Yale project on climate change, Yale University and George Mason University.
66. MacGregor, D., Slovic, P., Mason, R.G. and Detweiler, J. 1994. Perceived risks of radioactive waste transport through Oregon: Results of a statewide survey. Risk Analysis, 14: 5-14.
67. Manning, R. 2011. Studies in outdoor recreation: Search and research for satisfaction, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
68. Marcinkowski, T.J. 2010. Contemporary challenges and opportunities in environmental education: Where are we headed and what deserves our attention?. Journal of Environmental Education, 41: 34-54.
69. Miller, J.R. 2005. Biodiversity conservation and the extinction of experience. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20: 430-434.
70. Mortreux, C. and Barnett, J. 2009. Climate change, migration, and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change, 19: 105-112.
71. Muehlenbein, M.P. 2010. Human-evolutionary biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
72. Nickerson, S. 2003. Psychology and environmental change, London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
73. North American Association for Environmental Education. (2011). Nonformal environmental education programs: Guidelines for excellence. http://www.naaee.org/programs-and-initiatives/guidelines-for-excellence/materials-guidelines/nonformal-guidelines.
74. Olson, D.R. 1965. Note on Haslerud and Myers' transfer-of-principles experiment. Journal of Educational Psychology, 56: 107-108.
75. O'Riordan, T. 1995. Readings in environmental psychology: Perceiving environmental risks, London: Academic Press.
76. Orstein, R. and Ehrlich, P. 1989. New world, new mind: Moving toward conscious evolution, New York, NY: Touchstone.
77. Ostrom, E. 1990. Governing the commons, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
78. Papworth, S.K., Rist, J., Coad, L. and Milner-Gulland, E.J. 2009. Evidence for shifting baseline syndrome in conservation. Conservation Letters, 2: 93-100.
79. Parmesan, C. 2006. Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 37: 637-669.
80. Pellikan, H. and van der Veen, R.J. 2002. Environmental dilemmas and policy design, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
81. Philander, G. 2008. Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change, Vol. 1, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
82. Pike, C., B. Doppelt, and M. Herr. 2010. Climate communications and behavior change: A guide for practitioners.http://www.climlead.uoregon.edu/sites/climlead.uoregon.edu/files/uploads/ClimCommBehaviorChangeGuide_1.pdf
83. Pope, S.J. 2007. The evolution of altruism and the ordering of love, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
84. Powell, R.B., Brownlee, M.T.J., Kellert, S.R. and Ham, S.H. 2011. From awe to satisfaction: Immediate affective responses to the Antarctic tourism experience. Polar Record, 48: 145-156.
85. Powell, R.B. and Ham, S.H. 2008. Can ecotourism interpretation really lead to pro-conservation knowledge, attitudes and behavior? Evidence from the Galapagos Islands. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 16: 467-489.
86. Powell, R.B., Kellert, S.R. and Ham, S.H. 2009. Interactional theory and the sustainable nature-based tourism experience. Society and Natural Resources, 28: 761-776.
87. Powers, A.L. 2004. An evaluation of four place-based education programs. The Journal of Environmental Education, 35: 17-32.
88. Pratarelli, M.E., and C.M. Aragon. 2008. Acknowledging the primitive origins of human ecological dysfunction. http://www.globalization.icaap.org/content/v8.1/Pratarelli_Aragon.pdf.
89. Priest, S.H. 2001. Misplaced faith: Communication variables as predictors of encouragement for biotechnology development. Science Communication, 23: 97-110.
90. Pruneau, D., Khattabi, A. and Demers, M. 2010. Challenges and possibilities in climate change education. US-China Education Review, 7: 15-24.
91. Pruneau, D., Langis, J., Richard, J.F., Albert, G. and Cormier, M. 2005. The evolution of children's ideas on pollution in the framework of experiential and socioconstructivist activities. Environment and Sustainable Development, 4: 17-34.
92. Pruneau, D., Liborion, L., Vrain, E., Gravel, H., Bourgue, W. and Langis, J. 2001. People's ideas about climate change: A source of inspiration for the creation of educational programs. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 6: 121-138.
93. Pyle, R.M. 1993. The thunder tree: Lessons from an urban wildland, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.
94. Rachlinski, J.J. 2000. The psychology of global climate change. University of Illinois Law Review, 299: 1-35.
95. Raymond, C.M. and Brown, G. 2010. Assessing spatial associations between perceptions of landscape value and climate risk for use n climate change planning. Climatic Change, 104: 783-801.
96. Ridolfo, H., Baxter, A. and Lucas, J. 2010. Social influences on paranormal belief: Popular versus scientific support. Current Research in Social Psychology, 15: 33-41.
97. Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. 1990. Environmental psychology. Annual Review of Psychology, 41: 441-447.
98. Samways, M.J. 2007. Rescuing the extinction of experience. Biodiversity Conservation, 16: 1995-1997.
99. Schlesinger, M.E., Kheshgi, H., Smith, J.B., de la Chesnaye, F.C., Reilly, J.M., Wilson, T. and Kolstad, C. 2007. Human-induced climate change: An interdisciplinary assessment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
100. Schultz, P.W., Nolan, J.M., Cialdini, R.B., Goldstein, N.J. and Griskevicius, V. 2007. The constructive, destructive, and reconstructive power of social norms. Psychological Science, 18: 429-434.
101. Shindler, B. 2000. Landscape-level management. Journal of Forestry, 6: 10-14.
102. Skinner, B. 1978. Reflections on behaviorism and society, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
103. Slovic, P., Fischoff, B. and Lichtenstein, S. 1978. Accident probabilities and seat belt usage: A psychological perspective. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 10: 281-285.
104. Slovic, P., Fischoff, B. and Lichtenstein, S. 1979. Rating the risks. Environment, 21: 14-39.
105. Slovic, P., Fischoff, B. and Lichtenstein, S. 1980. "Facts and fears: Understanding perceived risk". In Societal risk assessment: How safe is safe enough?, Edited by: Schwing, R. and Albers, W. 181-216. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
106. Staats, H. 2003. "Understanding proenvironmental attitudes and behavior: An analysis and review of research based on the theory of planned behavior". In Psychological theories for environmental issues, Edited by: Bonnes, M., Lee, T. and Bonaiuto, M. 171-202. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
107. Stern, P.C., Dietz, T., Kalof, L. and Guagnano, G.A. 1995. Values, beliefs, and proenvironmental action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 25: 1611-1636.
108. Stokes, D.L. 2006. Conservators of experience. BioScience, 56: 6-7.
109. Sturgis, P. and Allum, N. 2001. Gender differences in scientific knowledge and attitudes toward science. Public Understanding of Science, 10: 427-430.
110. Sturgis, P. and Allum, N. 2004. Science in society: Re-evaluating the deficit model of public attitudes. Public Understanding of Science, 13: 55-74.
111. Sumi, A., Fukushi, K. and Hiramatsu, A. 2010. Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change, New York, NY: Springer.
112. Swim, J., S. Clayton, T. Doherty, R. Gifford, G. Howard, J. Reser, P. Stern, and E. Weber. 2009. Psychology and global climate change: Addressing a multi-faceted phenomenon and set of challenges. A report by the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Interface between Psychology and Global Climate Change.http://www.apa.org/science/about/publications/climate-change.aspx
113. Taylor, S.E. and Brown, J.D. 1988. Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health. Psychological Bulletin, 103: 193-210.
114. Tilden, F. 1977. Interpreting our heritage, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
115. Uzzell, D.L., Pol, E. and Badenas, D. 2002. Place identification, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability. Environment and Behavior, 34: 26-53.
116. Vaske, J.J. 2008. Survey research and analysis, State College, PA: Venture.
117. Vaske, J.J. and Kobrin, K.C. 2001. Place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior. Journal of Environmental Education, 32: 16-19.
118. Veblen, T. 1989. The theory of the leisure class, New York, NY: Prometheus Books.
119. von Roten, C. 2006. Do we need a public understanding of statistics?. Public Understanding of Science, 15: 243-249.
120. Vorkinn, M. and Riese, H. 2001. Environmental concern in a local context: The significance of place attachment. Environment and Behavior, 33: 249-263.
121. Wearing, S. and Wearing, B. 2001. Conceptualizng the selves of tourism. Leisure Studies, 20: 143-159.
122. Wertsch, J.V. 2009. "Collective memory". In Memory in mind and culture, Edited by: Boyer, P. and Wertsch, J. 117-137. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
123. Westley, F., Carpenter, S.R., Brock, L.A., Holling, C.S. and Gunderson, L.H. 2002. "Why systems of people and nature are not just social and ecological systems". In Panarchy, Edited by: Gunderson, L. and Holling, C. 103-120. Washington, DC: Island Press.
124. Wicklund, R.A. and Brehm, J.W. 1976. Perspectives on cognitive dissonance, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
125. Williams, D.R., Schreyer, R. and Knopf, R.C. 1990. The effect of the experience use history on the multidimensional structure of motivations to participate in leisure activities. Journal of Leisure Research, 22: 36-54.
126. Wilson, E.O. 1984. Biophillia: The human bond with other species, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
127. Young, G.L. 1989. Origins of human ecology, Stroudsburg, PA: Hutchinson Ross.
128. Young, O.R., Berkhout, F., Gallopin, G.C., Janssen, M.A., Ostrom, E. and van der Leeuw, S. 2006. The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research. Global Environmental Change, 16: 304-316.