Research Paper
Environmental Education
mehdi mohammadi; Reza Naseri Jahromi; solmaz khademi; daniyal azadi; sedigheh shadi
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Green entrepreneurship, with its positive effects on the environment, contributes significantly to sustainable economic development. The present study was conducted with the aim of a systematic review of the concept of green entrepreneurship in the higher education system. This qualitative research was ...
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Green entrepreneurship, with its positive effects on the environment, contributes significantly to sustainable economic development. The present study was conducted with the aim of a systematic review of the concept of green entrepreneurship in the higher education system. This qualitative research was conducted using the seven-step method of Sandlovski and Barroso (2007). The meta-composite team consisted of two experts in curriculum planning, one expert in educational psychology, one knowledgeable in the field of environment, and one person proficient in the meta-composite research method. 13 related research sources were the basis of the analysis. The validity of the data was confirmed by using the techniques of reliability, transferability, and alignment of data, and the reliability of the data was also confirmed by the accurate guidance of the flow of information collection and alignment of the researchers. Data analysis was done using the thematic analysis method. Based on the results, the concept of green entrepreneurship includes the themes of creativity and mental initiative, adaptation to the environment, environmental innovation, value creation, identifying green opportunities, reducing natural hazards, creating sustainable development, and risk-taking. A proper understanding of the above-mentioned factors helps in the development of university educational programs and the culturalization of environmental protection.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Parvaneh Safarialamouti; Esmail Karamidehkordi; Jaber Aazami
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Stakeholders’ knowledge is one of the essential elements of biodiversity management. This research assesses local communities’ knowledge and its impact on the perceived biodiversity loss in the Sorkhabad Protected Area of the Zanjan Province using a quantitative (descriptive-correlational) ...
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Stakeholders’ knowledge is one of the essential elements of biodiversity management. This research assesses local communities’ knowledge and its impact on the perceived biodiversity loss in the Sorkhabad Protected Area of the Zanjan Province using a quantitative (descriptive-correlational) methodology. A sample of 250 out of all rural households dependent on the protected area (N = 5095) was identified using Cochran's formula as the sample size who were selected by a multi-stage random sampling technique. The results showed that the respondents' knowledge about the ecosystem services and the challenges of biodiversity was at high and moderate levels, respectively. The results of regression analysis showed that the variables of knowledge about ecosystem provisioning services, knowledge about the impact of human factors related to unsustainable local community activities on biodiversity, knowledge about the impact of poor community livelihood conditions on biodiversity, knowledge about the impact of factors related to ineffective intervention conditions on biodiversity and knowledge about the impact of natural hazards to biodiversity accounts for 52 percent of the variance of perceived biodiversity loss in the protected areas.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Nazi Ahangar Partovi; Rasoul Yarahmadi; Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri; Hadi Ghaffari; Ali Emami Meybodi
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The aim of the current research is to design a qualitative model of circular economy education with the 3C (competency-based) approach in small and medium industries. The current research is exploratory in terms of its purpose and applied and developmental in terms of thematic nature. Its investigation ...
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The aim of the current research is to design a qualitative model of circular economy education with the 3C (competency-based) approach in small and medium industries. The current research is exploratory in terms of its purpose and applied and developmental in terms of thematic nature. Its investigation method is descriptive and analytical. This research was done with the meta-analysis method. The statistical population of the current research included related researches that were available inside and outside the country in the form of full-text articles, dissertations, and research plans in the databases and libraries of universities or government centers, and specialists who had relevant education or experience in this field. Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 182 studies were examined. The results of the research led to the formation of a comprehensive model of cognitive, attitudinal, and skill dimensions and formed in 11 components and 60 items. Reliability was calculated through the Kappa coefficient with a value of 0.95, which is at the level of excellent agreement. This model provides information about the competencies required from the cognitive, skill, and attitude dimensions for the implementation of circular economy training in small and medium industries, and by warning the decision makers, it clarifies the necessary fields of attention, and by recognizing and examining them, they have a clearer understanding of the program. It provides training for the development of circular economy concepts in the organizations. This diagnosis helps to improve training and also helps professionals to create more efficient training programs within the industries.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mohammad Nasser Modoodi; Zahra shirmohammadi Aliakbarkhani; Masoud Kheirandish; Arash Mowdoudi
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The collision of vehicles with animals on the roads is a globally common occurrence and mostly happens due to the destruction and fragmentation of wildlife habitats. The present research has studied some parts of the Asian International Road, located in eastern Iran, to analyze the effects of roadside ...
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The collision of vehicles with animals on the roads is a globally common occurrence and mostly happens due to the destruction and fragmentation of wildlife habitats. The present research has studied some parts of the Asian International Road, located in eastern Iran, to analyze the effects of roadside habitats on roads’ wildlife casualties and the drivers' views on the subject. The statistical population was the intercity drivers of Taybad City and the data collection tools were direct observations, researcher-made questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews. Using SPSS software, non-parametric Mann Whitey U, and Spearman's Rank tests, the results showed that the highest road wildlife deaths were related to small mammals, but larger mammals and birds, and reptiles were also observed. Significant correlations were determined between amounts of casualties in different months, between accidents’ day-time, and between the number of casualties and the type of habitat surrounding the road. Mortalities were significantly reduced by converting roadside lands into agricultural ecosystems. The results showed that drivers have not received any type of wildlife protection training, but had great empathy for them. They cited high speed, road traffic, and the size of animals as the most common causes of accidents.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Maryam Rahimi; MohammadHashem Rezaee; Faezeh Nateghi
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The present study aims to investigate the components of the human and nature relationship in the human and health cluster curriculum in secondary high school. Because of the importance emphasized in “The Fundamental Reform Document” and “The National Curriculum” by the Ministry ...
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The present study aims to investigate the components of the human and nature relationship in the human and health cluster curriculum in secondary high school. Because of the importance emphasized in “The Fundamental Reform Document” and “The National Curriculum” by the Ministry of Education, the subjects of “Human and Health” were considered strongly to be in the secondary school curriculum by the curriculum planners. If the content of these courses is tailored to the educational needs of students, it can play an effective role in improving the relationship between human and nature. The main question of this study: What are the features of the relationship between humans and nature in the curriculum with the subjects of humans and health in the second year of high school? The descriptive-analytical method of this research has been done manually by Shannon's entropy content analysis. The statistical population of the research was the secondary high-school human and health textbooks and their teacher guide in the year 2020-2021. The content of the study was (all books),7162 primary codes obtained and 15 main components, and 161 sub-components. Findings show that the greatest attention was paid to the highest information load and significance coefficient (WJ) of the authority (0.163), ecotourism (0.127), water (0.108), relief and rescue (0.107), biodiversity (0.1), air (0.093), waste (0.091), energy (0.079), soil (0.051), religious belief and national (0.027), soft war (0.025) and the lowest coefficient of the importance of the component is the stable security (0.006), Welfare and Social Security (0.003), nutrition and health (0.012), lifestyle (0.01). The findings of the present study indicate the revision of the curriculum of the Human and Health cluster is an undeniable necessity.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mojtaba Sookhtanlou; Fayyaz Esmat; Fatemeh Shafiee
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This study was carried out with the general purpose of determining the effective environmental components (in the form of protection motivation theory) on the behavior of chemical fertilizers consumption by tomato farmers in Ardabil province. The statistical population of the study included all active ...
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This study was carried out with the general purpose of determining the effective environmental components (in the form of protection motivation theory) on the behavior of chemical fertilizers consumption by tomato farmers in Ardabil province. The statistical population of the study included all active tomato farmers with irrigated cultivation in Ardabil province (N=1489). Based on the table of Bartlett et al. and a multi-stage random sampling method with proportional assignment, the sample size was determined (n=310). Tomato farmers from three counties (Pars Abad (191 people), Meshginshahr (80 people), and Kowsar (39 people)) were selected randomly and according to the population proportion. The behavior of chemical fertilizers consumption was estimated by the composite index (CI) technique. According to the findings, the majority of farmers (41.61%) used chemical fertilizers at a high level of consumption. The highest rate of this overuse (ratio of fertilizer consumption to permissible consumption) was related to liquid Potash fertilizer. According to the structural model analysis, the most paths explaining the behavior of chemical fertilizers consumption were related to the components of behavioral intention (0.731), response cost (0.543), and response effectiveness (0.494), respectively. Training and encouraging farmers to use alternative non-chemical fertilizers (organic fertilizers, humic acid or vermicompost, etc.), conducting periodic soil tests, granting subsidies to bio-fertilizers, holding "Farm Day" programs, and visiting and showcasing farms with successful use of bio-fertilizers can be effective to reduce or replace the chemical fertilizers consumption.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Hossein Hafezi; Seyed Mehdi Pamenari; Mahdieh Rezaei
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Unfortunately, nowadays, the environment has faced many challenges, and addressing these challenges requires rethinking, re-creating, and repairing in order to preserve human life on Earth. Environmental education, especially in schools, has an undeniable role to play in alleviating these problems. The ...
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Unfortunately, nowadays, the environment has faced many challenges, and addressing these challenges requires rethinking, re-creating, and repairing in order to preserve human life on Earth. Environmental education, especially in schools, has an undeniable role to play in alleviating these problems. The way of teaching, especially active teaching methods, has a great effect on students' self-learning abilities, one of the most important of which is the cooperative method. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the teacher-assistant plan on the transfer of environmental concepts to 11th-grade high school students in Kashan. The research method was quantitative and based on the quasi-experimental method. The population of the study consisted of all male students of 11th-grade public schools in Kashan, 1171 people, who were selected using the available sampling method of two classes of 30 people. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, the content validity of which was confirmed by environmental experts, and its reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.87. Data were analyzed at two levels, descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance) with SPSS26 software. The results showed that education based on the teacher-assistant plan is effective in transmitting environmental concepts and their components (excluding sound and biodiversity and tourism) to students. Therefore, it is possible to increase the quantity and quality of the transfer of environmental concepts in students by using appropriate teaching methods, the overflow of which can improve the environmental level of society.
Research Paper
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.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
sara Gholamhosein ghoochani; Abuzar Hatami yazd; Mahdi Kolahi
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هرچند تالابها زمانی بهترین تفرجگاههای ایران به شمار میرفتند، ولی در اثر عواملی همچون مدیریت غیرکارا، تعارض انسان-تالاب، تعارضات اجتماعی و عوامل طبیعی، بسیاری ...
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هرچند تالابها زمانی بهترین تفرجگاههای ایران به شمار میرفتند، ولی در اثر عواملی همچون مدیریت غیرکارا، تعارض انسان-تالاب، تعارضات اجتماعی و عوامل طبیعی، بسیاری از آنها امروزه خشکشده و از بین رفتهاند. مقاله حاضر با هدف ساماندهی تالاب هشیلان کرمانشاه از طریق ظرفیتسازی و مشارکت اجتماعی، بر اساس یافتههای حاصل از اجرای طرح ساماندهی تالاب هشیلان با رویکرد ظرفیتسازی اجتماعی انجام شده است. شیوه پژوهش، مشارکتی با کارکرد تحقیق در عمل است. جامعه آماری پژوهش، نهادهای محلی و دولتی و همچنین زنان و مردان روستاهای حوضه تالاب مخصوصاً روستاییان هشیلان است. برای ساماندهی تالاب هشیلان، از ابزار سیپا (برقراری ارتباط، آموزش و آگاهی عمومی) بهعنوان ابزاری برای ظرفیتسازی و مشارکت اجتماعی استفاده شد. برای برقراری ارتباط با جامعه و نهادهای محلی و دولتی در جهت برجستهسازی اهمیت تالاب، جشنوارهای برگزار و کارگاههای آموزشی برای مردم روستای هشیلان اجرا شد. همچنین در راستای ارائه برنامههای راهبردی، نشستهایی با معتمدان محلی تدارک دیده شد و از طریق پرسشنامه موردبررسی قرار گرفتند. دادهها با نرمافزار SPSS26 تحلیل شدند و تکنیک SWOT مورد استفاده قرار گرفت. طبق نتایج، برقراری ارتباط، آموزش، آگاهی و همچنین برگزاری جلسات آموزشی، مهمترین عوامل مؤثر در حفاظت و حمایت از تالاب هشیلان به دست آمدند. همچنین توسعه گردشگری و بهرهبرداری پایدار میتواند نقش مهمی در توانمندسازی جوانان روستایی و کسب درآمد پایدار داشته و زمینه را برای کاهش مهاجرت آنها به نقاط اطراف فراهم کند.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mohammad Yazdi
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Ayatollah Khamenei supreme leader of Iran and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli are two prominent jurists in the Shiite world who have dealt with environmental issues. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his opinions ...
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Ayatollah Khamenei supreme leader of Iran and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli are two prominent jurists in the Shiite world who have dealt with environmental issues. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his opinions and thoughts about environment and natural resources his 57 statements with the keywords of environment, nature, natural resources, air, water, soil, tree, planetary, forest, destruction, energy, pollution, environmental culture, awareness, law and crime statistically were analyzed. The data analysis shows that tree and planting 205 cases (maximum) and environmental awareness 4 cases (minimum) occur in his statements. It is important to note that his special attention to tree and planting is similar to special attention of tree and planting in Quran. The data analysis of Quran words show that tree 27 cases and tree of Date 20 cases have been repeated. Ayatollah Javadi Amoli is another eminent jurists and philosopher in the Shiite world who have specially dealt with environmental issues. The result of this research show that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli opinions and thoughts about environment and nature have been deeply iinfluenced by Quranic literature, hadiths and narrations mentioned by the Holy Prophet of Mohammad and Imam Jafar Sadiq, Shiite jurist’s principles such as the rule of no harm, the rule of causation, the rule of loss and Islamic philosophers, especially Mulla Sadra. It clears that their view about environment, nature and natural resources is not only scientific, executively and expertise but also it is deeply moral and on the basis of environmental ethics.
