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A Change of Values Is in the Air by Fischer, Joern is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Change of Values Is in the Air about?
Many scientists argue that large-scale value changes are needed for a sustainability transformation. New research shows that such changes might be happening. ## Joern Fischer V alues are an important foundation of human behaviour 1 . While our actions are shaped by many different drivers and constraints, our preferences and intentions are founded on our values 2our beliefs about desirable goals, which in turn guide our attitudes and behaviours 3 . Despite not having a univocal definition 4,5 , values have important implications for sustainability 4 . For example, individuals and societies who prioritize equality, the environment and social justice (examples of so-called universalist values 1,6 ) are likely to engage differently with sustainability issues than those who prioritize wealth, power and status (power-related values 1,6 ). Both individual values and those that prevail in society are believed to change relatively slowly in response to social and ecological conditions 7 . Writing in Nature Sustainability, Manfredo et al. 8 show that values towards wildlife in the United States appear to be changing in ways that signal good news for sustainability more broadly. Research on v
Who reads A Change of Values Is in the Air?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Fischer, Joern
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Nature Publishing Group; London: Macmillan Publishers part of Springer Nature, 2018- (ISSN 2398-9629)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)