Fatemeh Radan
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In the last few decades, the environment has always faced numerous threats and damage that put the human health and safety at risk. Such damages are due to human misconduct with Nature, which is rooted in his values and beliefs. Tehran subway is an important and effective part of the urban ...
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In the last few decades, the environment has always faced numerous threats and damage that put the human health and safety at risk. Such damages are due to human misconduct with Nature, which is rooted in his values and beliefs. Tehran subway is an important and effective part of the urban transportation system, with many people active in this section. The present descriptive research in a survey method is aimed at identifying the relationship between mass media and socio-economic variables with the environment-oriented attitude of Tehran Subway staff. Using a random sampling method and according to Krejcie & Morgan table, 379 samples were selected out of the population included 9000 employees of Tehran Subway in the summer of 1395. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the relevant professors and experts to this field and its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The results of this study showed a significant negative relationship between age and environmental attitudes. There is also a significant difference between the gender and the marital status of the people in relation to the environmental attitudes, while women and single individuals have a higher environmental attitude. There is also a significant positive relationship between using media and environmental attitudes, meaning the more mass media use the higher environmental attitude. The applied multi-variable regression showed that age, gender, marital status, employment status and average use of media are the elements effective on the environment-oriented attitudes of the Subway staff.
Marjan Masoomifard
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The e-learning system as an educational approach of the present age has always been faced with complexity of the interaction and quality of Collaboration in learning, hence the experts in this field have prepared different solutions. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship ...
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The e-learning system as an educational approach of the present age has always been faced with complexity of the interaction and quality of Collaboration in learning, hence the experts in this field have prepared different solutions. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the various types of interaction in e-learning with collaborative learning quality. This study is a descriptive-correlational and conducted through a survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 172 undergraduate students of e-learning in environmental education, Using Cochran's formula, 120 of them were selected by simple random sampling and completed a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed. The research findings were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient show that there is a meaningful and direct relation between the types of interaction (teacher-student, student-student, student-content, content-teacher, teacher-teacher) with collaborative learning quality in e-learning, While There was no significant relationship between interaction (content-content) and the quality of collaborative learning. Also, the results of the Friedman test, used to rank the types of interaction, showed that student-student interaction had the most importance in collaborative learning, and the interaction between "teacher-teacher" and "content-content" had the least importance among types Interactions. Therefore, it seems that the interactivity that exists between students ensures the quality of collaborative learning in e-learning.
Mojtaba Sookhtanlou; Nejat Vahedi
Volume 6, Issue 3 , June 2018, , Pages 105-120
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The primary purpose of this study was to analyze the model of environmental behavior and the relationships among it's affecting factors and among visitors of the Shorabil tourism area in Ardabil province. The method of this study is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consisted of all visitors ...
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The primary purpose of this study was to analyze the model of environmental behavior and the relationships among it's affecting factors and among visitors of the Shorabil tourism area in Ardabil province. The method of this study is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consisted of all visitors who came to the Shorabil Tourism Area. To determine the sample size, the Cochran formula was used in conditions with an unknown population size that the sample size was 320 (n = 320). Data were gathered in three different stages (multi-stage method) during July, August, and September (2017) using a simple random sampling method. The content validity of the research instrument (questionnaire) was evaluated using of experts and calculation of the AVE index. Also, the calculated values of discernment validity and reliability of the research instrument were also performed using Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability, which was of acceptable cost. Data analysis was done using SPSS and AMOS software. The findings showed that the majority of visitors (32.8%) had a relatively favorable environmental behavior. According to the results of the analysis of structural equations, knowledge, attitude, intention, and environmental perception variables, along with variables of education level and satisfaction of opportunities and opportunities, explain 59% of changes in the variance of environmental behavior variable. The most critical variables that describe the environmental behavior are essential, including environmental intention (path coefficient: 55.7%) in the role of a mediator variable, education (path coefficient: 38.1%), and satisfaction of facilities and opportunities (coefficient Path: 30.8%).
F. Rahimnia; S. Nosrati; Gh. Eslami
Volume 5, Issue 3 , June 2017, , Pages 115-129
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While environmental concern is often conceptualized as a direct antecedent of environmental purchase intention, empirical findings in support of this relationship are inconsistent at best. This study consequently investigates the direct and indirect effects of environmental concern on environmental purchase ...
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While environmental concern is often conceptualized as a direct antecedent of environmental purchase intention, empirical findings in support of this relationship are inconsistent at best. This study consequently investigates the direct and indirect effects of environmental concern on environmental purchase intentions in an effort to better understand these inconsistent findings. This research, in terms of purpose is practical, and in terms of methodology is a survey which is based on an analysis of covariance model using structural equation modeling. The sample size of this study were selected randomly from 386 students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, which constitute a group of citizen, by using Cochran's formula. In accordance to results of this research, the mediating role of intentional and incidental learning strategies between environmental concern and environmental purchase intention is being confirmed. Consequentely, we can declare that, by using learning startegies we can guide individuals‘environmental concern toward environmental purchase intentions.
H. Sayyadi Tooranloo; S. Karimi Taklo; S. Rahimi Ashjerdi
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This research aims to identify and model the factors affecting the adoption of environmental sustainability in information systems by healthcare centers. The statistical population of this study consists of two groups. The first group includes twelve experts whose ideas were used to determine the critical ...
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This research aims to identify and model the factors affecting the adoption of environmental sustainability in information systems by healthcare centers. The statistical population of this study consists of two groups. The first group includes twelve experts whose ideas were used to determine the critical factors and their causal relationships. The second group includes 250 employees, nurses, head nurses, and supervisors of al-Zahra medical and educational center in Isfahan. According to the results obtained from the review of research literature and interview with academic experts and information technology areas of healthcare centers, a total of twenty-four factors were identified in five dimensions of legal requirements, environmental responsibility, environmental legitimacy, resource consumption, and environmental justice. The content validity and construct validity were used along with confirmatory factor analysis to examine the validity of the research questionnaire Also, the overall reliability of a questionnaire based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.888. After collecting the required data, the level of dimensions was first determined in three levels using interpretive structural modeling. The factor of environmental justice was placed at the highest level and the factors of legal requirements and environmental responsibility were placed at the lowest level. The analysis model of the research path was designed based on the research interpretive structural model and it was and implemented using AMOS software. The results from path analysis indicated that among the six paths identified in the interpretive structural model, it was only the path of a legal requirement to resource consumption path that is not meaningful. Moreover, resource consumption has the highest total standard effect on environmental responsibility.
Amir Hossein Pirmoradi; Farahnaz Rostami; Abdolhamid Papzan
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The destructive effects of the environment, the reduction of human health and other living organisms, and the food security crisis, is one of the most important issues facing the global community, which has attracted the attention of many researchers. The question is whether the nature of self-farming ...
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The destructive effects of the environment, the reduction of human health and other living organisms, and the food security crisis, is one of the most important issues facing the global community, which has attracted the attention of many researchers. The question is whether the nature of self-farming alone is responsible for all such destructive effects, or is the actions of actors within the agricultural system stimulating and exacerbating these unsustainable effects? So, in the present study, we try to investigate the unsustainable Behaviours of farmers in Kermanshah using a qualitative study on the typology and depth of the event. In this regard, the studied samples were farmers and experts in agriculture and environmental Jihad, which according to the number of villages (10 districts) were selected through purposeful sampling (chain type). The number of participants in this study was 33. Data Collected from interviews and focus group discussion continues until theoretical saturation has been achieved. The validity and reliability of the results were confirmed by the plurality of data and feedback from the participants. Aggressive unsustainable Behaviour was extracted in 8 main themes. Relationships among these Behaviours are also displayed using the C-map software. Investigations and interviews provided a researcher with a new picture of unsustainable agronomic Behaviour and uncovered the fact that unsustainable agronomic Behaviours were influenced by the conditions, factors, and different intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
Farideh Talebpour; Elnaz Goshtasb; Yasaman Farhangpour
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Consumerism is a new phenomenon created in the 21st century that can play a substantial role in the destruction of national resources of any country. Nowadays, concerning the ever-increasing improvement of fashion in the world, consumerism in the field of textiles and clothing is raised more than ever. ...
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Consumerism is a new phenomenon created in the 21st century that can play a substantial role in the destruction of national resources of any country. Nowadays, concerning the ever-increasing improvement of fashion in the world, consumerism in the field of textiles and clothing is raised more than ever. Considering the wasteful consumption of products may bring about remarkable damages to the environment, presently certain methods such as no waste clothes production with a sustainability approach are under attention and survey. Researches accomplished in this regard resulted in the initiation of methods that are used by designers around the world as leading methods. Since this approach is an unprecedented opinion that is still in the route of extension and expansion, just a few studies have been conducted regarding the results obtained so far from designing zero-waste clothes and the experiences of consumers' awareness of this approach. The present research, regarding its objective, is of applied type based on descriptive-analytical method and procedure. Data collection is achieved by library method, relying on documents, written sources, and the internet. It challenges the discovery of the roots in this being formed field using the point of view proposed by Keith Fletcher. By explaining the experiences of this researcher in holding workshops related to this opinion, the out comings are surveyed. The obtained results confirm the application of various techniques such as digital printing patterns and the use of updated universal technology for the elimination of wastes.
Babak Omidvar; Mohammad-Sadegh Tavakkoli Sani
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Sustainability and resiliency analysis of cities is not completed without considering the whole system of interacting sectors. The purpose of this study is to introduce an algorithm for assessment of overall seismic resiliency increase of urban areas due to the reduction of Intra- and Interdependencies ...
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Sustainability and resiliency analysis of cities is not completed without considering the whole system of interacting sectors. The purpose of this study is to introduce an algorithm for assessment of overall seismic resiliency increase of urban areas due to the reduction of Intra- and Interdependencies between different sectors and retrofitting infrastructures. The proposed method is versatile, and different dimensions of resiliency, i.e., social, economic, technical, physical, institutional, and security dimensions of resiliency are considered in the study. In this research, the technical dimension, i.e., the functionality of water and power networks are modeled as an example, and some solutions to increase overall resiliency of an urban district against earthquake is investigated. The algorithm is based on the inoperability input-output model, and the interaction between water and power sectors in a metropolitan district is surveyed. Based on the results of a number of Monte Carlo simulations of different dependency scenarios, it is quantitatively shown that the decrease in interdependency has a direct and great effect on the increase in serviceability and overall resiliency indices, but the pattern of this effect is different between various earthquake scenarios. It is concluded that the reduction of interdependency has an increasing effect on the overall resiliency index. Thus, an optimum value for interdependency reduction can be obtained to increase resiliency index using the Pareto principle, and the influence of reducing of interdependency on increasing the resiliency of a region as a whole is investigated. The proposed model may be used in system analysis for other dependent sectors and for different disasters and can also be considered as a helpful measure for decision-makers in sustainability and resiliency enhancement studies.
Environmental Education
Fatemeh Takallou; Enayatollah Yazdanpanah
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Increasing urbanization has resulted in urban stress, and this issue has affected adults, including university students. This study investigates the relationship between the utilization of nearby green spaces by university students and their perceptions of stress and health. According to Ulrich's Stress ...
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Increasing urbanization has resulted in urban stress, and this issue has affected adults, including university students. This study investigates the relationship between the utilization of nearby green spaces by university students and their perceptions of stress and health. According to Ulrich's Stress Reduction Theory, this study designs an online survey method on students’ stress and analyzes their stress based on the results of the survey. The statistical population of the research included all 417 undergraduate students of English Language Translation at Alborz Payame Noor University in the academic year 2022-2023. Finally, 186 students who completed the online survey were selected for the study. The Perceived Stress Scale scores were combined and entered into IBM SPSS statistics 25. The results obtained from the regression analysis showed that the utilization of green spaces is negatively correlated with perceived stress levels, indicating that the frequency and time of visiting green areas have a predictive role in reducing the stress of students. This research adds to the body of knowledge regarding the function that urban green spaces predict promoting wellbeing and stress reduction. Thus, some suggestions for utilizing urban green spaces to improve university students' health might be proposed.
Environmental Education
Aida Esmaeilzadeh Seilabi; Amir Semiari; Mahdi Malmir
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Biodiversity is the root concept of ecological knowledge. The goal of the research is to evaluate the biodiversity concept perception among Iranian academic graduates to compare the findings derived from the sample population with definitions provided by international and national institutions. The research ...
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Biodiversity is the root concept of ecological knowledge. The goal of the research is to evaluate the biodiversity concept perception among Iranian academic graduates to compare the findings derived from the sample population with definitions provided by international and national institutions. The research methodology is based on field analysis by a structured questionnaire with an emphasis on one open question; what is your definition of biodiversity? The result of the content analysis of 137 responses is categorized based on the respondents' educational group into four categories; technical & engineering, natural and biological sciences, humanities & social sciences, and architecture & art, which indicates the fact that the responses of the sample population can be categorized at two-level; theoretical knowledge (holistic and partial attitudes) and practical knowledge (conservative, interactive and developmental approaches). Finally, based on the findings of this study, graduates of Iranian universities, at the level of theoretical knowledge, possess a deeper understanding than responsible institutions, which indicates a high awareness of the theoretical level of the biodiversity concept. However, at the level of empirical knowledge, the codes derived from the analysis of the responses don’t provide clear and significant themes, and this shows insufficient knowledge of the academic community about the dimensions of biodiversity in practice and experience.The concept of biodiversity is one of the most fundamental concepts of ecological knowledge. This research was conducted with the aim of measuring the conceptual understanding of the Iranian academic graduates of the concept of biodiversity and comparing the findings of the studied sample with the definitions provided by international and national institutions. The research method is based on field analysis and a structured questionnaire centered on this "open" question that; What is your definition of the concept of biodiversity? The results of the content analysis of 137 complete and meaningful responses based on the respondents' educational group in four categories; technical & engineering, natural and biological sciences, humanities & social sciences, architecture & art, express the fact that the sample population studied can be divided into two levels of theoretical knowledge (holistic and partial perspectives) and practical knowledge (conservative, interactive, and developmental approaches). The results showed that at the level of theoretical knowledge, the respondents referred to deeper themes of the concept of biodiversity than media and responsible institutions, which indicates a high awareness of the theoretical level of the concept of biodiversity among the studied sample. At the same time, at the level of practical knowledge, the answer codes do not provide clear and significant themes about the concept of biodiversity, and this indicates the insufficient knowledge of the studied sample about the dimensions of biodiversity in the field of practice and experience.
Kambiz Karimi; Reza Movahedi
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The main purpose of this applied research was to determine farmer’s environmental behavior and factors affecting it in Qorveh County of Kurdistan province. The data were collected by a surveying method with using a questionnaire technique. The collected data were analyzed by using both SPSS and ...
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The main purpose of this applied research was to determine farmer’s environmental behavior and factors affecting it in Qorveh County of Kurdistan province. The data were collected by a surveying method with using a questionnaire technique. The collected data were analyzed by using both SPSS and PLS softwares through a structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population of the research includes all 12845 farmers in Qorveh County. Of those, 374 people were first selected as samples using Kerjcie and Morgan's table then a randomized sampling method by an optimal assignment technique was used for determining samples between each village. The results revealed a significant relationship between the external variables environmental knowledge and awareness, environmental concern, subjective norm and farmers' environmental attitude with the variable farmers' intention. The environmental concerns had the most direct effect on the farmers' intention. The results showed that the variable farmers' intention can determine 32 percent (β =0.32) of dependent variable (farmer’s environmental behavior).Therefore, it is concluded that the farmers' intention as an important factor can effect on their environmental behavior, and the farmers' intention influenced strongly by the variable farmers' environmental concerns.
Environmental Education
Soraya Karami; Mohammad Reza Bahrameian; Tayebeh Basaki; Sadigheh Ghanaei; Mohammad Ali Nejat
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The purpose of this study is to identify and rank the methods of promoting the culture of using natural resources. For this purpose, based on the opinion of experts in the field of natural resources, 8 main criteria and 12 sub-indicators were selected for designing the questionnaire. Then, based on the ...
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The purpose of this study is to identify and rank the methods of promoting the culture of using natural resources. For this purpose, based on the opinion of experts in the field of natural resources, 8 main criteria and 12 sub-indicators were selected for designing the questionnaire. Then, based on the information obtained from the questionnaire, which was completed by experts in the field of natural resources, weighting and ranking of indicators were performed using EXPERT CHOICE software and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, which is one of the valid techniques in the field of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). The research findings indicate that among the eight criteria, the criteria of "facilitating participatory learning", "development of critical thinking" and "existence of interaction" are more important, respectively. The final analysis showed that the three criteria mentioned in the context of participatory methods are the most effective way to promote the culture of resource use and the environment.
Environmental Education
Davood Tarvirdizadeh; Shahram Mirzaei Daryani; Mohammad Reza Nahidi Amir Khiz; Mohammad Pasbani; Morteza Hnarmand Azimi
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In recent years, issues related to environmental protection and sustainability in the food sector have become a global concern. Also, the not-so-favorable conditions of our country in terms of environmental protection and the need to pay attention to green concepts at the management levels of organizations ...
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In recent years, issues related to environmental protection and sustainability in the food sector have become a global concern. Also, the not-so-favorable conditions of our country in terms of environmental protection and the need to pay attention to green concepts at the management levels of organizations led to this innovative research aimed at designing a green quality management model in the food industry with an emphasis on environmental performance improvement. The ultimate purpose of this research is to be practical and in terms of methodology, a descriptive survey was used as well as a qualitative approach that has been done using the Grounded Theory method. To collect data, a library method was conducted within the literature on the subject matter and a purposive sampling method and theoretical saturation principle were used. In-depth and semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 16 officials and experts of companies active in the food industry in Ardabil province. The information obtained from the two phases was combined and data analysis was performed in a three-step process of open coding, axial and selective, with the help of MAXQDA software. The findings of this study show that the paradigm pattern of green quality management in the food industry has 5 components: green human resource management (causal conditions), green management thinking (contextual conditions), technology management, and environmental management system (interventional conditions), green management innovation (strategies) and supply chain green (consequences). Therefore, the success of the food industry to upgrade environmental performance will depend on the establishment and proper implementation of the designed model and the superior management of these components.
Environmental Education
fatemeh rezaei; Mojtaba Tabari; ali Farhadi Mahalli; Toraj Mojibi
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Among the major actions toward sustainable development is public policymaking that seeks to fundamentally address and resolve environmental issues. The purpose of this research is to explain an exigency model of the government public policy gap analysis in the subject area of environment. This is an ...
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Among the major actions toward sustainable development is public policymaking that seeks to fundamentally address and resolve environmental issues. The purpose of this research is to explain an exigency model of the government public policy gap analysis in the subject area of environment. This is an applied research conducted through a survey. The statistical population included 121456 Iranian graduates with a master's degree or PhD in the field of environment. Of this population, based on the Cochran formula, a sample consisting of 384 respondents was formed, the individual members of which were selected using stratified random sampling. The validity and reliability of the measurement tool were assessed and confirmed using content validity (of face validity type) and Cronbach's alpha, respectively. The results indicated the dimensions of the link between organization policies and goals, community expectations and feelings, and reflecting stakeholders' views as relevant in the gap analysis model. In addition, the results indicated that the exigent policy gap analysis model of the environment had the required validity. The proposed model in this research which has been further improved by expert views may serve as an applied model for policymakers, practitioners, and executives of environmental policies, and particularly, the Iranian Department of Environment.
Environmental Education
Soheyla Koosha; Hussein Alekajbaf; Paniz Taheri
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The right to education and protection of the environment is an example of the third generation of human right which are effective in benefiting sustainable development and any pollution will endanger the life of every creature. The aim of this research is to study the procedures of achieving these rights ...
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The right to education and protection of the environment is an example of the third generation of human right which are effective in benefiting sustainable development and any pollution will endanger the life of every creature. The aim of this research is to study the procedures of achieving these rights by teaching environmental protection to sixth-grade elementary school students. This research by using descriptive-analytical-field method is answering this question that what are the challenges and necessities of the environmental education for sixth-grade students? Based on this research, the current environmental education in the educational system is not purposeful and does not create an environment-oriented culture. Research data were collected by studying environmental and human rights documents according to international law and Iranian law, as well as data from examining a questionnaire of 400 students in Tehran in the parsian year 1398. The face validation method and Cronbach’s alpha were used for data reliability and validity, then for data analysis, SPSS and Excel software were used. The results show that having responsible citizens, furtherance of sustainable development can be achieved by teaching methods of environmental protection to students of 11 to 12 years old, who are able to perceive, learn and find solutions, as they can accept responsibility and obey the law, educating them creates a conscious generation with critical thinking and effective in bringing about constructive changes. These can be achieved by having precise educational planning, writing new books, encouraging students to critical thinking, increasing awareness, dialogue and active social participation.
Environmental Education
Roya Karami; Sahar Tabibian; Nasrin Ahmadi; Tahereh Sharghi
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Preserving and developing human resources in high-risk agricultural environments requires observing agricultural safety principles. In this regard, understanding the protective behavior of gardeners with emphasis on the role of health belief model components in explaining the formation of protective ...
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Preserving and developing human resources in high-risk agricultural environments requires observing agricultural safety principles. In this regard, understanding the protective behavior of gardeners with emphasis on the role of health belief model components in explaining the formation of protective behavior of gardeners in Zanjan city through the impact of knowledge on attitude has been selected as the purpose of this study. The study was conducted using the applied purpose and descriptive correlation method. The study population is gardeners in Zanjan city. The number of samples was calculated according to Cochran's formula of 293 people, and sampling was done using a stratified multistage sampling method. This survey research was conducted using a questionnaire, and its validity and reliability were assessed and confirmed. The results of this study showed that gardeners usually wear appropriate clothing and shoes as protective equipment when working with chemicals, but other personal protective equipment such as masks, hats, gloves, and goggles are less considered. Also, although gardeners have moderate to little knowledge of conservation behavior, there is a relatively good attitude towards the need to take preventive measures, which facilitates the implementation of the training program and its acceptance. Test of study hypotheses showed that 41% of the variance of gardeners' attitudes about preventive behaviors is formed under the influence of their knowledge. Further, the effect of attitude on all components of health belief is significant and explains almost half of the variability in perceived sensitivity, perceived severity, perceived benefits, self-efficacy, and practice guide. Path analysis indicates the explanation of 58% of changes in protective behavior based on the predicted model. Therefore, education, in addition to increasing knowledge and influencing attitudes, could affect gardeners' understanding of protective behaviors and provide the ground for implementing gardeners' safe behaviors.
Environmental Education
M Rezvani; M MoosaKazemi; M Arefian
Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2013, , Pages 13-23
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In this study, the effects of socio-demographic characteristics of the family on the students’ environmental ethics (children of the families) were assessed. The aim of the study was to gather and publish useful information about environmental factors especially education and culture as one of ...
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In this study, the effects of socio-demographic characteristics of the family on the students’ environmental ethics (children of the families) were assessed. The aim of the study was to gather and publish useful information about environmental factors especially education and culture as one of the most important issues of the population and country developments. In this descriptive study, all the high school students 1391-92 of Abhar, Zanjan were recruited. The population included 4467 persons, and based on the Morgan’s table, 360 persons were randomly selected using two-step cluster method. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire consisting two parts "socio-demographic characteristics of the family" and "environmental ethics of the students." Validity of the questionnaire was assessed by a group of consulting professors and specialists of environmental education, and the reliability was pretested among 30 students, and was finally approved with the Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.771. Analyzing the results of the questionnaires, none of the variables including: number of children, parental educations, parental occupations, real estate or rental houses, and being emigrants or citizens had a significant relationship with the level of environmental ethics of the students. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to the environmental educations in new plans for the population organizing of the country, particularly concerning the importance of environmental ethics in providing a better future, in addition to the effort of improving the socio-demographic characteristics of the society.
Mohammad Hasan Seif; Saeid Mazloumian; Mohammad Reza Javanmardi
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Given the sharp decline in energy resources and consumables in today's societies, despite population growth, which results in the need for more people to supply energy and materials to meet the needs of all human beings, societies today are looking for a solution, with a strategy called sustainable development ...
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Given the sharp decline in energy resources and consumables in today's societies, despite population growth, which results in the need for more people to supply energy and materials to meet the needs of all human beings, societies today are looking for a solution, with a strategy called sustainable development All are accepted. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and psychological factors with energy saving behavior. The statistical population of this study was selected from among 36000 primary school students of Shiraz with a random sample of 36000 people using the Cochran formula with a sample size of 267 people. The data gathering tool in the present study was a questionnaire with 41 questions in Likert scale, which was based on Environmental Knowledge Questionnaire Ho, Quang and Kim (2013), Environmental Meteorological Norms of Rivera (2004), Environmental Environmental Responsibility Ko, Huang and Kim (2013) The previous experiences of Rivera (2004), perceived behavioral control, chow and air (2001), Perceived Utility, Mon and Kim (2001), Environmental Attitudes of Ko, Huang and Kim (2013), and the Desire of Quang and Kim's Quantum Energy Efficiency (2013) . The results showed that exogenous variables, environmental knowledge, environmental norms, environmental responsibility, past environmental experiences, directly and indirectly, through intermediate variables of perceived behavior control, perceived usefulness and environmental perception were significant on the tendency to energy saving behavior and the highest total effect Refers to perceived usefulness and the lowest total effect related to environmental norms on the tendency to energy saving behavior.
F. Vahida Vahida; GH.R. Jafarinia; S. Afrooz
Volume 5, Issue 4 , September 2017, , Pages 113-125
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The intangible appetite of humans and the productivity of natural resources, and the sense of profligacy and addiction of capitalists and large producers, are a growing threat to natural resources.Therefore, the environmental issue is considered by many scholars.This article examines the relationship ...
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The intangible appetite of humans and the productivity of natural resources, and the sense of profligacy and addiction of capitalists and large producers, are a growing threat to natural resources.Therefore, the environmental issue is considered by many scholars.This article examines the relationship between social activity, relationship with nature and environmental behavior of citizens living in Tehran. The residents of Tehran were the statistical population , using a Lin table, 384 people were selected as sample size and selected by simple random sampling method.The survey instrument was a questionnaire and its analysis is conducted through Amos software. The findings of this study showed that there is a significant relationship between the social activity variable and the relationship with nature with the environmental behavior variable.Structural equation modeling results indicated that the index root mean is 0.07, the square to degrees of freedom is 2.95, Parsimonious fit indices is also 0.92. According to indicators of structural equation, the presented models had a good fit. As a result, social activity and relationshipswith nature play an important role in environmental behavior.
Environmental Education
Jahangir Karami; Fateme Dehghan; Kamran Yazdanbakhsh
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Environmental concerns of people in the community have increased due to increasing environmental problems and issues. This in turn leads to changes in consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of attitudes, mental norms, and perceived consumer ...
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Environmental concerns of people in the community have increased due to increasing environmental problems and issues. This in turn leads to changes in consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of attitudes, mental norms, and perceived consumer behavioral control using the theory of planned behavior, taking into account the role of environmental concerns and the intention to buy green products. For this purpose, the research data was collected from a sample of 867 people in the cities and villages of Kermanshah City, and the data was analyzed by structural equation modeling. The findings revealed that attitudes (36%), mental norms (55%), and perceived behavioral control (50%) all had positive effects on pro-environmental behavior; additionally, environmental concerns (40%), and the intention to buy green products (58%), both had positive effects on pro-environmental behavior.
S. Oryan; S.M Shobeiri; M. Farajollahi
Volume 6, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 115-129
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The aim of this study is to analyze the role of “Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Strategic Plan on Climate Change” in 5 different sectors of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, water management, agriculture and food security, biological resources and health on knowledge, attitude ...
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The aim of this study is to analyze the role of “Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Strategic Plan on Climate Change” in 5 different sectors of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, water management, agriculture and food security, biological resources and health on knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of the society for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The research method is practical and it is descriptive-analytical study. According to the result of the study, all of three dimensions of KAP considered in 25 strategies of the 5 sectors, but they are not proportional. As of 229 programs of this plan, 24% and 26% are related to enhance the level of knowledge and attitude of community of Iran and 50% of programs are practical. The sectors with the highest and lowest proportion of programs related to the development of knowledge, are health sector (56%) and reducing greenhouse gas sector (8%) respectively. In addition, the sectors with the highest and lowest proportion of programs related to the enhance of attitude, are water management sector (44%) and health sector (12%). The most practical programs are relevant to agriculture and food security and reducing greenhouse gas sectors (60%) and the least practical programs are related to water management. It is suggested that knowledge and attitude of different stakeholders improve through education in order to practical programs that are more than 50% of the programs of this plan, become more effective.
Maryam Mohammadi Ostadkelayeh; Bahman Zandi; Javad Hatam; Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri
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The purpose of this study is to design a curriculum pattern for environmental education for pre-primary school children and validate it from the viewpoint of specialists and educators. The curriculum of environmental education in the pre-school period includes curriculum objectives, curriculum content, ...
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The purpose of this study is to design a curriculum pattern for environmental education for pre-primary school children and validate it from the viewpoint of specialists and educators. The curriculum of environmental education in the pre-school period includes curriculum objectives, curriculum content, curriculum teaching methods, and curriculum evaluation practices and the idea of integration was taken from Bahman Zandi's Language learning book (1394). This research, In terms of purpose, is applied, In terms of tools, it is a type of evaluation and the method of doing it is groundless. To determine the sample size required for designing the curriculum, a purposeful-judgment sampling was used from the statistical community of experts. The experts included curriculum specialists, the specialist in environmental education and kindergarten coaches. Also, the assessment and validation of the curriculum were based on the views of 45 coaches and managers of selected kindergartens in Rasht. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire which was designed based on the integrated curriculum design of environmental education and descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for analyzing the data. In this study, four sections of curriculum design, designed curriculum implementation, Determining the effectiveness of the educational intervention, assessment, and validation of the curriculum designed to be examined separately. After validating all the items, 25 items in the curriculum section, 26 items in the curriculum content section, 7 items in the curriculum teaching methods and 6 items in the curriculum evaluation practices were obtained Which totally includes 64 items.
Majid Esmaeilpour; Azade Rajabi
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Consumers are nowadays more concerned about environmental changes, and accordingly they have changed their purchasing behavior. Concerns on environment have made them to pay attention to reusability of product packaging in their decision-making process. The objective of this study was to investigate ...
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Consumers are nowadays more concerned about environmental changes, and accordingly they have changed their purchasing behavior. Concerns on environment have made them to pay attention to reusability of product packaging in their decision-making process. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of factors affecting consumers' perception of the reusability of product packaging. This study is applied in terms of objective and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The population of study included customers in Bushehr city. Questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data of study were collected among 385 customers of retail stores in Bushehr city using convenient sampling. Then, they were analyzed by structural equation modeling to test the conceptual model and hypotheses of study. Results of the study revealed that match between material, form, and color of the package have a positive and significant impact on consumer perception of reusability of packaging. In addition, results of this study suggest that environmental attitude and the sensitivity to recyclability of packaging have a positive and significant impact on consumer perception of the reusability of packaging. In general, five factors of environmental attitude of consumer, consumer sensitivity to recyclability of packaging, match between material, form, and color of product packaging in total could explain 0.681 of variance of consumer perception of reusability of product packaging.
S. Abbasi; M. Safari; L. Asgari
Volume 6, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 117-126
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Arbia elements, and especially water, are the main elements of nature and one of the most critical phenomena that mankind faces with them and has found their necessity and importance. Water was always sacred in pre-Zoroastrian religions as well as in Zoroastrian religion, and the goddesses were protected ...
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Arbia elements, and especially water, are the main elements of nature and one of the most critical phenomena that mankind faces with them and has found their necessity and importance. Water was always sacred in pre-Zoroastrian religions as well as in Zoroastrian religion, and the goddesses were protected it. A significant part of the mythology of ancient Iranian religions is devoted to water. In the cultural and biological system of the early periods of life, human beings have used certain methods for recognizing and introducing the phenomena of existence, one of which is myth. Myths are among the earliest initial cognitions and explanations of humankind to determine what is the status of the available and unknown elements of nature. In fact, they are the history of the fiction of different nations and the cultural system that expresses the general worldview of the world, its origin, the position of man in nature and part of the human epistemic system in the period of the beginning of human life. The scope of the functions of myth is often the recognition of human behavioral patterns in all its dimensions and the general justification of socio-cultural phenomena around it. In other words, myths are the symbolic image of the phenomena of nature in tangible and visible language, and the symbolic expression of social infrastructure and common thought in ancient and prehistoric that are reflected by associating with the rituals, behaviors, ethics and rules of the traditional social and family system. Thus, with myths, one can examine the cognitive system of a nation or religion and measure their views and actions. Accordingly, in this research, a descriptive-analytic approach has been used to express, first of all, with a brief overview of myth and their epistemic and ontological functions, to state what the water identity is in the beliefs of ancient Persians and in Iranian religions, especially Zoroastrianism, and cognitive functions about the Iranian's insight and their attitude toward this natural phenomenon.
Sadegh Salehi; Leila Ebrahimi; Naser Fattahi
Volume 6, Issue 3 , June 2018, , Pages 121-136
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This research aims at finding an answer to the following questions: What are residents’ attitudes towards ecotourism development? What are social- economic and environmental effects of ecotourism on the local community? Is there any possibility for ecotourism in Janatroodbar district? How will ...
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This research aims at finding an answer to the following questions: What are residents’ attitudes towards ecotourism development? What are social- economic and environmental effects of ecotourism on the local community? Is there any possibility for ecotourism in Janatroodbar district? How will much local community support ecotourism development? This survey has been conducted in JannatRoodbar. To conduct this research, a survey method was utilized as well as documentary method. The population of the study consisted of all residents of JannatRoodbar in Ramsar in 2016. The results of the study show that: First, local people’s attitudes towards ecotourism is highly positive. Second, the local community is aware of the social, economic and environmental effects of the ecotourism. Third, based on Doss’s theoretical model, there is a possibility to develop ecotourism in JannantRoodbar district. However, there is a fragility problem for this destination. Fourth, the level of the community’s support for ecotourism is very high.
