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Chapter 21
Behaviour and the Environment

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Actions, values, and lifestyles

  • Lifestyle choices

  • The actors – individuals, companies, and authorities

  • The role of information and education

  • Ethics comes to the forefront


Ethics and the environment

  • A new ethics

  • What is ethics?

  • Action – morality – ethics – worldview

  • Ethical conflicts

  • Outlook Box 21.1 Caring for the Earth – a world ethics for living sustainably

  • Human-centred, anthropocentric, ethics

  • Non-human centred, biocentric, ethics

  • Review Box 21.2 Trends in environmental philosophy

  • Ecocentric ethics

  • A hierarchy of values


Environmental education and public awareness

  • The roles of knowledge and awareness

  • A brief history of environmental education

  • Review Box 21.3 International recognition of environmental education

  • The aims of environmental education

  • The delivery of environmental education and the role of communication


Behaviour and the environment

  • How to influence behaviour

  • Behavioural community psychology

  • Stop littering and improve waste management

  • Case Box 21.4 Lifestyle changes supported by the municipality

  • Case Box 21.5 "Environmental Teams" or eco–teams

  • Consumption – buying green products

  • Resource use – saving energy and water

  • Review Box 21.6 Ecological living – eco-villages

  • Mobility – is less traveling possible?

  • Experiences from eco–villages – the post–materialistic lifestyles