Environmental Attitudes Among Undergraduate Students at a&amp;nbsp;South African University&lt;br /&gt;
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Coetzee, Hendri; Evert, Madeline; Nell, Werner

doi:10.21601/ijese/11330

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“…Environmental justice considers various interacting and complex domains that draw on both natural environmental and social environmental concerns (Agyeman et al, 2002;Evert et al, 2022) suggesting a need to think beyond binary conceptualisations (Connors & Trites, 2021). Schlosberg (2007) extends justice towards our relations with the non-human world, and Agyeman et al (2002) links justice to sustainability suggesting a convergence of issues.…”

Section: Psychology and Environmental Justicementioning

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“…Research with university students showed that the majority were neutral on whether they perceived a positive future for the environment in Gauteng with the authors ascribing this result to either indifference or ambivalence (Dlamini et al, 2021). Another study conducted with undergraduate students at a university in the North-West found that participants did not perceive the environment to be under threat, and endorsed conservation for human utilisation (Evert et al, 2022).…”

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The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

Marais-Potgieter,

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2022

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Government, policy, intervention campaigns, and communication strategies tend to separate social environmental issues from green environmental issues, and more recently, placing emphasis on responding to the pandemic. Interventions with an individualistic focus has also received criticism. Isolating issues from each other makes them deceptively simpler to deal in the short term, but at the cost of their interconnectedness impacting how future disasters might be managed. This myopic approach is of particular concern considering how climate change is increasingly impacting South Africans. This paper proposes two central questions: given evidence of the likely zoonotic source of COVID-19, how have relative rankings of the green environment changed between 2016 (pre COVID-19) and 2021 (COVID-19), and what does this mean for the study of environmental justice? A study conducted with 721 South Africans in 2016 aimed to establish where green environmental issues ranked compared to social and economic concerns. Subsequently, the pandemic provided an opportunity to conduct a follow up study with 665 South Africans to determine whether issues of concern are different during a pandemic. The results show that in the face of evidence of the zoonotic origins of COVID-19, there were little to no shifts in the ranking of green environmental issues in 2021 compared to 2016 among a sample of South Africans. The findings from this study suggest that red and brown issues could be powerfully leveraged to mobilise a range of movements for environmental justice in South Africa.

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The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

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2022

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A mixed-methods study on human-frog interactions in Nature's Valley, South Africa

Botha,

du Preez,

Tarrant

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African Journal of Herpetology

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Exploring preservice science teachers' attitudes toward environmental technologies

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Akhmedova

Sokolova

et al. 2023

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed

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Understanding attitudes toward environmental technologies appears essential because of the need for profound societal changes associated with using new technologies to protect the environment. However, a lack of research investigating the attitudes of preservice science teachers toward environmental technologies exists in the current research literature. Therefore, this study aimed to examine preservice teachers' attitudes toward environmental technologies. A total of 196 students enrolled in a large Russian public university formed the participants of this research. Researchers used a scale for data collection. We administered the scale to the participants in the spring semester of the 2022 year. This scale included three sub-dimensions and 24 items. We analyzed pre-service teachers' attitudes in age, branch, and gender. The results showed that the developed scale consisted of three dimensions: positive, benefit, and negative. The results demonstrated that the participants in this research demonstrated moderate and low mean scores regarding the positive aspects of environmental technologies. The participants also demonstrated very positive attitudes regarding the benefits of environmental technologies. Regarding the negative aspects of environmental technologies, the participants had the lowest mean scores compared to the other items of the first two factors. The results also revealed some significant differences in participants’ age, branch, and gender. In conclusion, we discuss educational implications for promoting the environmental attitudes of preservice teachers about environmental technologies.

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Environmental Attitudes Among Undergraduate Students at a South African University<br />

Cited by 5 publications

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The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

A mixed-methods study on human-frog interactions in Nature's Valley, South Africa

Exploring preservice science teachers' attitudes toward environmental technologies

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Cited by 5 publications

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The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

The relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental attitudes and what this means for environmental justice

A mixed-methods study on human-frog interactions in Nature's Valley, South Africa

Exploring preservice science teachers' attitudes toward environmental technologies

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