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Values, Environmental Concern, and Environmental Behavior [PDF]
Environment and Behavior, 2004 In this study, the role of values in the field of household energy use is investigated by using the concept of quality of life (QOL). Importance judgments on 22 QOL aspects could be summarized into seven clearly interpretable value dimensions. The seven value dimensions and general and specific environmental concern contributed significantly to the ...
Poortinga, Wouter +2 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik +5 more
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Attracting investment in green cultural capital through aesthetic differentiation
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2019 Certain voices in environmentalism stress a harmonious aesthetic connection with nature, and believe that doing this may have a beneficial effect on moral environmentalism. However, there is also a fair sprinkling of opposing voices that think difference
Frederick J Potgieter
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Traditional Islamic Environmentalism
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2015 Seyyed Hossein Nasr (b. 1933) is one of the most important living mysticphilosophers today. His consistent and clairvoyant critique of the materialism, secularism, and anthropocentricism of modernity for the last fifty years has been a wake-up call to ...
Ovamir Anjum
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Environmentalism after the Pandemic
Journal for the History of Environment and Society, 2020 The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the explosive emergence of environmentalism accompanied by increasingly influential scientific, regulative and managerial roles for the environmental sciences.
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda, Tim O’Riordan
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An environmental assessment system for environmental technologies [PDF]
Environmental Modelling & Software, 2014 A new model for the environmental assessment of environmental technologies, EASETECH, has been developed. The primary aim of EASETECH is to perform life-cycle assessment (LCA) of complex systems handling heterogeneous material flows. The objectives of this paper are to describe the EASETECH framework and the calculation structure.
Julie Clavreul +3 more
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler +2 more
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Urban Planning, 2020 In the capital city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, climate change and environmental concerns are used to justify massive redevelopment projects in informal settlements located along the rivers Ozama and Isabela. Residents in such river communities
Raksha Vasudevan, Bjørn Sletto
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“Daring to Care”: Challenging Corporate Environmentalism
, 2019 Corporate engagements with pressing environmental challenges focus on expanding the role of the market, seeking opportunities for growth and developing technologies to manage better environmental resources. Such approaches have proved ineffective.
M. Phillips
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Does personality mediate the relationship between sex and environmentalism?
Personality and Individual Differences, 2019 The finding that females hold more pro-environmental attitudes and engage in more conservation behavior, relative to males, is one of the most robust effects in the field of environmental psychology.
Jessica E. Desrochers +4 more
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