An Ecological Perspective on the Origins of Industrialization

Steinberg, Theodore

doi:10.2307/3984350

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“…Global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activities have increased to >70% since the preindustrial period, 17,18 and in the face of CC in the late 1980s, the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization established the IPCC for a wide international network of scientists dedicated to assessing relevant scientific, technical, and socioeconomic information to understand the risks posed by CC worldwide and to propose CC scenarios for the future 19 . The Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), which are used to make projections based on population size, economic activity, lifestyle, energy use, land use patterns, and technology and climate policies, refer to the number of radiative forcing measured in watts per square meter per year by 2100 20 .…”

Section: Climate Change and Future Climate Scenarios And Perspective Of Infection Disease Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do climate changes alter the distribution and transmission of malaria? Evidence assessment and recommendations for future studies

Cella

Baía-da-Silva

Melo

et al. 2019

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.

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Section: Climate Change and Future Climate Scenarios And Perspective Of Infection Disease Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do climate changes alter the distribution and transmission of malaria? Evidence assessment and recommendations for future studies

Cella

Baía-da-Silva

Melo

et al. 2019

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.

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“…Historically, nature has been attributed quite different qualities. In the industrial age, nature as a concept was perceived as a battlefield to be conquered and brought under the control of humanity (Steinberg, 1986; Moore, 2017).…”

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Socio-Cultural Influences on Situated Cognition in Nature

Schilhab

Esbensen

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…The first industrial revolution represented a significant milestone in societies' perception of the environment. Alongside unprecedented economic, technological, and population growth, the shift towards an industrialized world led humankind to believe that natural resources were unlimited and fated to be subdued according to their needs and interests (Dunlap, 2010;Steinberg, 1986). This era of faith in endless progress and resources´ abundance nourished an anthropogenic vision of the environment, particularly in the field of sociology, later entitled the Human Exemptionalism Paradigm (HEP), also considered as the Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP; Catton & Dunlap, 1978;Dunlap, 2008).…”

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Contribution to an Ecological Worldview: Adaptation and validation of the New Ecological Paradigm Scale to the European Portuguese language

Arriaga,

Rosa,

Madeira

2024

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The growing need for societies to adopt a more ecological and sustainable mindset highlights the importance of instruments such as the 15-item New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP Scale). The scale measures the individuals’ endorsement of an ecological worldview, contrasting with the perspective of human dominance and exemptionalism. This study aimed to validate the European Portuguese version of the NEP Scale using a cross-validation approach. The total sample, consisting of 511 participants (56.4% women; aged between 18-73 years old), was split into two halves, with the first half used to perform an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to refine the scale, and the second half to perform a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The EFA revealed a 14-item two-factor latent structure, which was subsequently confirmed through CFA (CFI = 0.98; TLI = 0.97; RMSEA = 0.04; SRMR = 0.06). Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha (α) and McDonald’s omega (ωs), with factor 1 (Ecocentrism; α = .88; ωs = .87), and factor 2 (Anthropocentrism; α = .80; ωs = .81) showing strong internal consistency. Significant moderate correlations between both NEP Scale dimensions and the Ecologically Conscious Consumer Behavior (ECCB) scale (r1 = .383; r2 = .313) provided convergent evidence for construct validity. The correlation between NEP dimensions was .70, indicating an acceptable discriminant validity. This study adds to the evidence of the European Portuguese version of NEP being a valid, reliable, and valuable tool for assessing environmental orientation within Portuguese-speaking samples. Moreover, average NEP scores showed that the Portuguese are akin to a pro-ecological worldview (M = 3.72, SD = 0.68), specially among young women with low income.

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An Ecological Perspective on the Origins of Industrialization

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Do climate changes alter the distribution and transmission of malaria? Evidence assessment and recommendations for future studies

Do climate changes alter the distribution and transmission of malaria? Evidence assessment and recommendations for future studies

Socio-Cultural Influences on Situated Cognition in Nature

Contribution to an Ecological Worldview: Adaptation and validation of the New Ecological Paradigm Scale to the European Portuguese language

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