{"id":2722,"date":"2015-12-03T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:19:42","slug":"the-spatial-dimension-of-environment-related-attitudes-does-urban-or-rural-origin-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"THE SPATIAL DIMENSION OF ENVIRONMENT-RELATED ATTITUDES: DOES URBAN OR RURAL ORIGIN MATTER?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria GOULA<\/h2>\n
Environmental Education Centre of Makrinitsa, Greece<\/address>\n
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airamgl@yahoo.gr<\/address>\n
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Christos Ap. LADIAS<\/h2>\n
Panteion University, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Athens, Greece,<\/address>\n
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caladias@otenet.gr<\/address>\n

Olga GIOTI-PAPADAKI<\/h2>\n
Panteion University, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Athens, Greece,<\/address>\n
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opapadak5@gmail.com<\/address>\n

Nikolaos HASANAGAS<\/h2>\n
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Forest Administration, Forest Office of Pertouli, Greece<\/address>\n
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n.hasanagas@gmail.com<\/address>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aim of this research is to analyze the role of the urban or rural origin of students in their environment-related attitudes. Standardized questionnaires were completed by 315 students of environment-related departments (Forestry, Farming Enterprise Management, Crop Production and Landscape Architecture), originating from various villages, towns and cities of Greece. The research was conducted from 2007 to 2013. Spearman test (bivariate correlation) was used and in-depth interviews were conducted. The following results have derived: The environmental profiles (more anthropocentric or eco-centric) as well as the susceptibility to hunting do not depend on the origin. The organized involvement in environment-related issues (participation in associations) is more restricted in rural-originated interviewees. They latter also present a greater tendency to abuse animals than the urban-originated students. Interviewees of both urban and rural origin appear to be similarly receptive (or critical) to the institutional necessity of the Ministry of Environment. Urban interviewees are more familiar with certain environmental policy concepts (e.g. \u201cenvironmental education\u201d, \u201cbiodiversity problem\u201d) while rural-originated students are less receptive (or more deconstructive) to these. The perception of naturalness appears to be quite independent of the origin. The attractiveness of certain environmental elements is differentiated between urban- and rural-originated students, depending on either the feeling of familiarity or on the need of escaping from anxiety or monotony. The way of familiarization with the notion of \u201cforest\u201d does not markedly differ between rural- and urban-originated interviewees (the urban-originated ones are more influenced by comics). Rural-originated students tend to consider their study as a practical training while urban students as a science, mainly focusing on physico-biological subjects. Issues such as the propagandistic instrumentalization of the notion of \u201cenvironmental problem\u201d, the deconstructive or defensive discourse toward \u201cenvironmental issues\u201d, perception of landscape, in-situ experience, and universal aesthetic values in relation to origin are discussed.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> environmental attitudes, family-related and region-related origin, environmental education<\/p>\n

JEL classification:<\/strong> Q5, R2
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Maria GOULA Environmental Education Centre of Makrinitsa, Greece airamgl@yahoo.gr Christos Ap. LADIAS Panteion University, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Athens, Greece, caladias@otenet.gr Olga GIOTI-PAPADAKI Panteion University, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Athens, Greece, opapadak5@gmail.com Nikolaos HASANAGAS Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Forest Administration, Forest Office of Pertouli, Greece n.hasanagas@gmail.com Abstract Aim of this research…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[218,220,219],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-environmental-attitudes","tag-environmental-education","tag-family-related-and-region-related-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}