What Is Environmental Perception?

Silva, Taline Cristina; Chaves, Leonardo da Silva; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28155-1_14

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Section: Environmental Perception and Attachment To Villages As Place...mentioning

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“…This definition suggests that the perceptual process is not passive, either physiologically or psychologically, and that environmental information is not linearly processed from sensory input to internal response. Environmental perception is a psychological and sociocultural process through which a person actively explores the environment for certain purposes (Gärling & Golledge, 1989; Gibson, 1969; Ittelson, 1978; Silva et al, 2016). Purposeful selection is guided by functionalism; that is, people usually choose the environmental features that can help them realise certain expected functions, such as the fulfilment of socioeconomic and emotional needs and the provision of various activities (Gärling & Golledge, 1989; Ittelson, 1978; Scannell and Gifford, 2010).…”

Section: A Conceptual Framework: the Impact Of Environmental Percepti...mentioning

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Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China

Guo

Lin

2023

Population Space and Place

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Moving beyond the prior studies on destinations, this study identifies people's perceptions of and attachments to their places of origin to theoretically address how social groups defined by environmental experiences perceive the environment and how these perceptions affect their attachment. Villages in inland China are empirically examined as shared places of origin for stayers, outmigrants and returnees. This study confirms a positive relationship between the frequency and intensity of people‐environment interactions and the levels of environmental perception, as shown by the decreasing perception levels among stayers, returnees and outmigrants. Environmental perception occurs when individuals selectively perceive environmental features that have special meaning to them in meeting their functional needs. Such selectivity leads to differences in the environmental perception variables that significantly affect group attachment. The village attachment of both outmigrants and stayers is significantly affected by their perception of socioeconomic environmental features, while the perception of physical environmental features is only significant for returnees. The strong impact of social environmental features on outmigrants’ level of attachment confirms the rootedness of such attachment to one's place of origin and challenges the belief that mobility and attachment to place are negatively related.

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Section: Environmental Perception and Attachment To Villages As Place...mentioning

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Section: A Conceptual Framework: the Impact Of Environmental Percepti...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond destinations: Environmental perception and village attachment among stayers, outmigrants and returnees in rural China

Guo

Lin

2023

Population Space and Place

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“…Environmental perception is a cognitive process that corresponds to how each individual perceives their external world, how they observe phenomena, and attribute concepts to them. It reflects a set of psychological, physiological, social, and cultural filters (Rocha et al 2006;Silva et al 2016a;Tuan 1980).…”

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“…Considering environmental perception as a sociocultural phenomenon, ethnobiological studies carried out with adults indicate that perception can be influenced by several factors, such as increased contact with natural environments, gender, and age (see Silva et al 2016a). Thus, it is plausible to speculate that these factors may also modulate the perceptions of children and adolescents.…”

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What factors can influence children's perception of forests today and in the future?

Sousa¹,

Silva²,

Ramos³

2021

Ethnobio Conserv

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Ethnobiological studies regarding the environmental perception of children are still infrequent, creating a gap in the understanding of factors that influence the process of developing perception in this phase of life. Therefore, this study sought to verify the influence of some factors, such as contact with natural environments, gender, and age in elementary school students, between 11 and 15 years of age, about remnants of the Atlantic Forest, present and future. We observed that the elements represented by children did not differ in terms of contact with natural environments, but those who live in rural areas, represented more elements related to usefulness. Additionally, the children in this study did not show significant differences in environmental representations between genders, and an increase in age indicated the loss of ecological knowledge about the natural components of a forest environment, giving way to a more utilitarian and degraded view of the environment. In general, we can state that children have precise perceptions about forest environments, and a negative perspective regarding the future of forests. Furthermore, certain factors may come to have a strong influence on their perception, especially with increasing age and strengthening of culturally established social roles for different genders, which will strongly influence decision-making in favor of forests in the future.

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