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Environmental Awareness, Economic Orientation, and Farming Practices: A Comparison of Organic and Conventional Farmers
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1997-09)
Knowledge-based interventions for promote conservation behavior: Stories as replacements for direct experience
(School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 1993)
A sustainable planet is not possible without widespread environmental stewardship behavior. Society's resource-costly lifestyles present an historic challenge. Never before have so many behaviors needed to change in so ...
Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames
(1995)
Novel landscape designs that improve ecological quality may not be appreciated or maintained if recognizable landscape language that communicates human intention is not part of the landscape. Similarly, ecologically valuable ...
Some fundamentals of engaging stories
(Routledge, 1996)
This paper discusses a form of information transfer referred to as story. It is suggested that stories serve as a singularly effective replacement for direct experience, a useful but sometimes difficult environmental ...
The role of interest in environmental information: A new agenda.
(Children, Youth and Environments, Boulder, CO, 1994)
The majority of environmental information is presented in factual, expository text
format. Although this form of text may be sufficient when learner interest is already
high or when incentives are strong, environmental ...
Populus tremuloides photosynthesis and crown architecture in response to elevated CO 2 and soil N availability
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1997-04)
We tested the hypothesis that elevated CO 2 would stimulate proportionally higher photosynthesis in the lower crown of Populus trees due to less N retranslocation, compared to tree crowns in ambient CO 2 . Such a response ...
Nutritional indices in the gypsy moth ( Lymantria dispar (L.)) under field conditions and host switching situations
(Springer-Verlag, 1994-03)
A large proportion of gypsy moths ( Lymantria dispar (L.)) are likely to experience multiple species diets in the field due to natural wandering and host switching which occurs with these insects. Nutritional indices in ...
The role of data in the EIS process: Evidence from the BLM wilderness review
(Elsevier, 1993-03)
Various propositions have been offered about the role of the environmental impact statement (EIS) in agency decision making. These include statements that agencies are (1) using the information collected in the EIS to make ...
Evaluation of Selected Recycling Curricula: Educating the Green Citizen
(Routledge, 1993)
The article reviews past research in environmental education and identifies eight variables as strong predictors of conservation behavior change: action skills, knowledge of action strategies, knowledge of the issue, ...
Assessing Biotic Integrity of Streams: Effects of Scale in Measuring the Influence of Land Use/Cover and Habitat Structure on Fish and Macroinvertebrates
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1999-02)