New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary MeasuresNational Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change National Academies Press, 2002. jún. 13. - 368 oldal Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the quick fixes have been achieved and the main sources of pollution are shifting from large "point sources" to more diffuse sources that are more difficult and expensive to regulate. The political climate has also changed in the United States since the 1970s in ways that provide impetus to seek alternatives to regulation. |
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... Deficit Model of Behavior Change P. Wesley Schultz 5 Promoting “Green” Consumer Behavior with Eco-Labels John Thøgersen 17 43 45 49 67 83 6 The Public Health Perspective for Communicating Environmental Issues Thomas ix Contents.
... green consumerism, such motivations are not unrelated to concerns about market share and profitability. Just as command-and-control approaches engage market incentives, so too do market incentives involve some of the characteristics of ...
... green consumerism, which is actively promoted by many environmental organizations. In response, some firms may be seeking a niche market defined in terms of minimal environmental impact from their products. Even firms that do not see ...
... green” procurement standards. In 1993, for example, President Clinton issued an executive order requiring every executive agency to practice waste prevention and recycling as well as to promote the market for recovered materials through ...
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The Message and the Reality | 49 |
Examining the KnowledgeDeficit Model of Behavior Change | 67 |
5 Promoting Green Consumer Behavior with EcoLabels | 83 |
6 The Public Health Perspective for Communicating Environmental Issues | 105 |
7 Understanding Individual and Social Characteristics in the Promotion of Household Disaster Preparedness | 125 |
8 Lessons from Analogous Public Education Campaigns | 141 |
An Initial Survey | 219 |
Emergence and Evolution | 235 |
Environmental Right to Know as a Driver of Sound Environmental Policy | 253 |
16 Challenges in Evaluating Voluntary Environmental Programs | 263 |
A Theoretical Framework | 283 |
18 Factors in Firms and Industries Affecting the Outcomes of Voluntary Measures | 303 |
19 The Policy Context for Flexible Negotiated and Voluntary Measures | 311 |
20 Understanding Voluntary Measures | 319 |
9 Perspectives on Environmental Education in the United States | 147 |
10 A Model of CommunityBased Environmental Education | 161 |
11 Community Environmental Policy Capacity and Effective Environmental Protection | 183 |
What Have We Learned? | 201 |
What We Know and Need to Know | 337 |
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS | 349 |