Environmental Education
Zahra Akbarzade Niaki; Farinaz Farbod
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Today, fashion as the most dominant consumption phenomenon, has led to consumerism lifestyle, which is considered as the most harmful lifestyle regarding environmental destruction. Now, the most important question in the future is how can lifestyles be directed to survival and continuity? Sustainable ...
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Today, fashion as the most dominant consumption phenomenon, has led to consumerism lifestyle, which is considered as the most harmful lifestyle regarding environmental destruction. Now, the most important question in the future is how can lifestyles be directed to survival and continuity? Sustainable development with the slow-fashion movement in the clothing industry seeks to change the social attitude towards consumption. Hence, the present study has focused on the capabilities and challenges of shared clothing as one of the strategies of sustainable development in the field of clothing for the consumption, under the cultural conditions of our country, using the survey-field method. The statistical population of this study included 300 women aged 18-40 years in Tehran, who were selected by random sampling method. The tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaire questions were designed in two parts of the audience's preferences regarding sharing and shareability in the form of 14 open and closed questions. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using SPSS 22. The results revealed that 55% of the respondents were willing to share clothing with others and 45% were not. Respondents who agreed with sharing were also asked about the criteria for sharing, where 67% of sharing was in the form of donation and charity, followed by an average of 59% of helping protect the environment. Also, at 95% confidence level, a significant relationship was found between degree of education and environmental protection.
Environmental Education
mahdi Golsefid Alavi; Kamal Sakhdari; Aboutorab Alirezaei
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Achieving a clean environment along with economic growth and welfare is one of the aspirations of any modern society. Nowadays, researchers have accepted the correlation between the scopes of business and environment because entrepreneurship activities have been acknowledged as a significant driving ...
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Achieving a clean environment along with economic growth and welfare is one of the aspirations of any modern society. Nowadays, researchers have accepted the correlation between the scopes of business and environment because entrepreneurship activities have been acknowledged as a significant driving force for economic, social, and environmental sustainability. A review shows that the entrepreneurship literature has experienced rapid growth, with many developments reported on a broad spectrum of topics. Nevertheless, one of the main concerns of the authors of present contribution is the nexus of entrepreneurship and the environment. Indeed, recognition of research opportunities in relation to the green entrepreneurial orientation concept can largely contribute to the theoretical development and empirical studies in entrepreneurship and environmental science. So in the meantime, the mysterious concept of green entrepreneurial orientation has become a very attractive research topic. In this research, the literature related to the nexus between the fields of entrepreneurship and the environment with a Meta synthesis approach has been studied. Accordingly, in the present article, after a thematic and content review of 141 sources, 25 factors were identified in the form of eight concepts and two categories, the weights were determined by the modified Shannon entropy method. In this regard, the most important factors affecting the entrepreneurial orientation of green businesses are: "Type of industry", "Financial support, rewards and incentives for green entrepreneurial actions", "Social networks", "Green entrepreneurship for economic benefits", "Social norms about the environment" and "Commitment, attention and knowledge of managers or owners to the environment.
Masumeh Kargozar; Mahmoud Mehrmohamadi; Ebrahim Talaee; Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri
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The present study aims to investigate the existing status of environmental education in the second elementary school based on the components of environmental education. The methodology was the content analysis method of Entropy Shannon, which presents data processing in the context of content analysis ...
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The present study aims to investigate the existing status of environmental education in the second elementary school based on the components of environmental education. The methodology was the content analysis method of Entropy Shannon, which presents data processing in the context of content analysis with a new, quantitative and qualitative look. The content of the project was responsive (all 4th, 5th and 6th grade books), and 9 main components and 43 sub-components. The results of content analysis showed that out of a total of 848 pages of the fourth elementary books, in total (189) pages, and 895 pages of the fifth grade of primary books in total (127) pages and from 914 pages of the sixth grade books in elementary The total (127) pages related to the key concepts of environmental education, and among all the components of environmental education, the greatest attention was paid to the component of biodiversity in 36 pages and the least attention was paid to the ozone layer component in (0). The most The coefficient of importance is related to biodiversity components (0.26) and the lowest coefficient of importance of the component is the effect of growth of ozone layer (0). According to the results of content analysis, it can be concluded that the environmental education of this period is very low, while explicitly in the upstream documents the issue of the environment, the necessity and importance of preservation and ways of its conservation as one The underlying dimensions of development are discussed in different dimensions.
Environmental Education
Ava Kondori; monire salehi
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The purpose of the present study was to analyze the content of educational network educational videos and experimental science books of the first elementary school in terms of their attention to the environmental protection education. The research method was quantitative and descriptive content analysis ...
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The purpose of the present study was to analyze the content of educational network educational videos and experimental science books of the first elementary school in terms of their attention to the environmental protection education. The research method was quantitative and descriptive content analysis based on the categories of environmental protection and also the statistical population included 52 educational network videos and new experimental science books written in the first year of elementary school in the academic year 2020-2021. The statistical sample was considered equal to the statistical population. The sample was analyzed based on 9 main categories and 33 sub-categories by deductive coding method. The research tool was a checklist of environmental protection education categories, so that the initial checklist was first selected from Keramati and Ahmadabadi (2018) research and its validity was confirmed by experts. To ensure the reliability of the measuring instrument, the Holstie formula was used and the agreement percentage was 78.1%. The findings showed that the content of the study did not address natural and artificial soil pollutants and light pollutants. The other two grades were significantly lower, and this limitation in the third grade is considered as a weakness for the educational content in this grade. Also, in general, the films of Shad Network paid more attention to the environmental protection education than the science books of the first elementary school. The principles of sequence and continuity were not observed in the compilation of the studied content in the first elementary period.
Environmental Education
Ali Ahmadi Firouzjaie; Mahnaz Ghafouri; Mahsa Safaripour; Tahereh Sharghi
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This study was conducted to identify and prioritize the challenges and Solutions of pro-environmental behavior of 120 greenhouse cucumber growers in Tarand district through Delphi technique during two rounds. Findings showed that the overuse of chemical inputs was recognized as the most important pro-environmental ...
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This study was conducted to identify and prioritize the challenges and Solutions of pro-environmental behavior of 120 greenhouse cucumber growers in Tarand district through Delphi technique during two rounds. Findings showed that the overuse of chemical inputs was recognized as the most important pro-environmental behavior challenge. Furthermore, using disposable plastic coatings, improper waste management, and using diesel were the important pro-environmental challenges, respectively. In addition, the results showed that to address these challenges, first the adverse impacts of using chemical inputs must be explained; Eco-friendly alternative inputs should be introduced; the separation, recycling and proper disposal of waste should be trained and encouraged; and finally the use of solar and other clean types of energy need to be trained and encouraged. Next, after raising the level of environmental awareness of farmers, in order to implement the training provided, financial and credit support; access to Eco-friendly inputs, equipment and technologies; and the development of environmental laws should be the focus of politicians and those who are in charge.
Environmental Education
Farzad Zahedi; Hossein Bodaghi Khajeh Noubar; Morteza Mahmoudzadeh; Sohrab Yazdani
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Advertising is considered as one of the most important components of a business unit's sustainability, which plays a decisive role in promoting green product awareness. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of acceptance of green perception of customers based on the visual themes of green ...
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Advertising is considered as one of the most important components of a business unit's sustainability, which plays a decisive role in promoting green product awareness. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of acceptance of green perception of customers based on the visual themes of green advertising on social media. This study is a developmental research in terms of purpose, because due to the lack of a basis for assessing the level of acceptance of green perception of customers based on visual themes of green advertising in previous research, based on meta-synthesis in the first step tried to identify components as analytical basis. And use propositions as reference variables. In order to explain the identified components, Intuitive Fuzzy Sets analysis (IFSs) was used to determine the most effective basis for evaluating the level of green perception of customers based on the visual themes of green advertising. In this study, the target population consisted of two parts: qualitative. In the qualitative part, with the help of 16 marketing experts at the university level, an attempt was made to identify the research components, components in the form of scoring forms. In the small section, 50 managers at different levels of knowledge-based companies participated. The results showed that the proposition of brand identity is considered as the most effective visual theme of green advertising in the companies under study, which strengthens the perception based on social convergence as a component of accepting the green perception of customers. This result shows that the content of green brand identity in the form of a comprehensive norm will form the perception of social convergence in customers, because this perception is considered as an external stimulus due to the existence of environmental values, which causes customers to realize the importance.
Hamid Reza Nasimi; Hamid Heidary Mokarrar
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Neglecting waste management is the main cause of pollution in villages of Iran. In this regard, waste management is considered as one of the major axes of development in urban-rural has special importance. Thus, the present study seeks to evaluate waste management in Tange-Katuiyeh urban-rural of Darab ...
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Neglecting waste management is the main cause of pollution in villages of Iran. In this regard, waste management is considered as one of the major axes of development in urban-rural has special importance. Thus, the present study seeks to evaluate waste management in Tange-Katuiyeh urban-rural of Darab County. This is a descriptive-analytic study in which the documentary method is used to examine the record and explain the problem. Furthermore, a survey method was used to collect the data by means of observation, interview, and completion of the questionnaire among the residents. Therefore, with regard to the number of households residing in this village and using the Cochran formula, 292 households were selected as the sample. The data were also analyzed in the form of descriptive and inferential statistics using Combined Entropy and AHP Method and Excel, Expert Choice, and SPSS software packages. The results of this research showed that as stated by respondent households residing in Tange-Katuiyeh urban-rural, waste management was very appropriate in 11.5 percent of households and very weak in 8.9 percent of them. In addition, the weighting process of independent variables revealed that 'raising awareness and 'economic value of selling wastes' have been regarded as more important. Thus, the results of route analysis model showed that of variables under study, 'level of education' with a general effect of 0.560 was the most effective and variable 'gender' with a general effect of 0.030 was the least effective in the quality of waste management of people residing in Tange-Katuiyeh urban-rural.
Askar Jalalian
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According to the preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, international crimes are crimes that cause for concern the international community. Accordingly, four international crimes have been counted and specified in the statutes. This research, which is of analytical-descriptive type ...
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According to the preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, international crimes are crimes that cause for concern the international community. Accordingly, four international crimes have been counted and specified in the statutes. This research, which is of analytical-descriptive type and with library-documentary method, seeks to provide a strategy for environmental protection.The environment is a common heritage of humanity, and almost all countries suffer as a result of the damage it suffers. Since the Rio 1992 Convention, which linked sustainable development to the environment, the importance of paying attention to the environment has increased. Consideration should be given to recognizing environmental crimes as international crimes so that the International Criminal Court can have jurisdiction over them.this study seeks to answer the question that considering the principle of sustainable development and its necessities, how is it possible to criminalize environmental crimes in the category of international crimes? In other words, how is it possible to develop the concept of international crime into environmental crimes? And what is the relationship between sustainable development and the environment? Research findings indicate that according to several provisions of the Rome Statute of 1998, it is possible to develop the concept of international crime not only to environmental crime but also to other crimes, so in order to make it operational, research efforts must be paved and environmental protection Institutionalized.
Environmental Education
Ghasem Mottalebi; Esmail Zarghami; Hossein Bagheri
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According to human needs assessment indicators, children have a more limited range of needs than adults. In this regard, the hypothesis is that creating children-friendly environments in urban spaces in addition to increasing satisfaction of children, increases the overall satisfaction of urban spaces ...
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According to human needs assessment indicators, children have a more limited range of needs than adults. In this regard, the hypothesis is that creating children-friendly environments in urban spaces in addition to increasing satisfaction of children, increases the overall satisfaction of urban spaces and, consequently, urban sustainability. At first, the components of satisfaction of adults from urban spaces were obtained based on the research components "Zenker", using the "back translation" tool and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.736. Questionnaires were randomly collected from two parks of Qeytarie and Niavaran from District 1 of Tehran from 90 people in two children playgrounds and a space without children in each park. The results indicate that the overall satisfaction rate in children playground is three times higher than that in the absence of children. The positive role of the presence, vitality and security components proven in earlier studies was achieved. By expanding the child-friendly environment, we have attempted to reach a generation of environmentally friendly children. This important issue in future research can be considered a novel approach in explaining the components of environmental education and sustainable urban development.
Environmental Education
Asghar Mirfardi; Dorna Salamatian
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Natural environment and its troubles are prevalent. Environment conservation requires appropriate pro-environmental behaviors. Thus, this paper aimed to investigate the environmental behavior (EB) and its relationship to environmental concern, using environmental awareness Informative resources and some ...
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Natural environment and its troubles are prevalent. Environment conservation requires appropriate pro-environmental behaviors. Thus, this paper aimed to investigate the environmental behavior (EB) and its relationship to environmental concern, using environmental awareness Informative resources and some demographic factors such as gender and age among Iranian university students (the case of Shiraz University students). Using a survey method and a structured questionnaire, 400 students were studied in Iran. The environmental behavior scale (Mirfardi et al., 2017) and self- administered environmental concern scale were used for measuring the variables. The samples were selected via clustering sampling with the appropriated size. Face validity and factor analysis were used for the validity and Croanbach’s Alpha (environmental behavior= 0.55; environmental concern= 0.77; use of environmental awareness informative resources, 0.68) for the reliability evaluation. Findings showed that there was a direct and significant relationship between the variables of age, and environmental concern as well as the environmental awareness informative resources as independent variables and the pro-environmental behavior as the dependent variable (p. < o.oo1) Also, the environmental behavior variable showed a significant difference with the gender variable. This study showed that environmental concern, and age have important roles in the formation of environmental behavior.
Environmental Education
Mohsen Alikhani; Aliakbar Razmjoo; Siavash Salavatian
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Local media play an indispensable role in crisis management, including environmental crises. In our country, Khuzestan province has been facing a dust crisis for many years, but the local media have not performed well in this crisis. In this regard, this study was conducted with the aim of improving ...
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Local media play an indispensable role in crisis management, including environmental crises. In our country, Khuzestan province has been facing a dust crisis for many years, but the local media have not performed well in this crisis. In this regard, this study was conducted with the aim of improving the performance of local media in the province in the face of a dust environmental crisis. Thus, the study was designed to achieve these solutions, and a semi-structured interview method was conducted to collect information. The statistical population of this study included experts in the field of media, crisis, and environment, and through targeted sampling, finally, 12 experts were selected and interviewed. By analyzing data through thematic analysis research method, 36 solutions in eight general categories including (human resources), (informing) & (policy-making), (educating) and (improving public participation), (demanding), (warning), (co-working and coordinating with authorities of crisis) were presented. By applying these strategies in local media planning, local media can improve their performance in environmental crises.
Mahdiyeh Yazdani; Gholamreza Asadollahfardi
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Today, the issue of sustainable development has become one of the most important global issues and has become the focus of attention and human attention in the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Various human activities, as well as the development of industries and the expansion of urbanization ...
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Today, the issue of sustainable development has become one of the most important global issues and has become the focus of attention and human attention in the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Various human activities, as well as the development of industries and the expansion of urbanization with waste and wastewater, have contaminated soil. Different methods are available to clean up the soil about economic issues. One of them is the electro remediation method, which is often applied in low-permeability fine-grained soils and is successful as a greenhouse effect in reducing the toxicity of heavy metals and is a new and developing approach for organic pollutants. This paper will be presented the effective parameters, the strong points as well as limitations, to clarify the basic concepts in the electro remediation process. Conduct experiments with the three-dimensional arrangement of electrodes instead of the linear arrangement of electrodes could be more practical. Using geosynthetic electrodes to prevent corrosion of metallic electrodes, combining the electro remediation process with other designs and different operational modes, and overcome to the problem of reducing the electro-osmosis flow and reverse electro-osmosis flow with pH control are methods to enhance the rate of removal of pollutants from soils.
Elham Asadi; Vahid Afshinmehr
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This study aims to get the idea from bird nesting and Rufous Hornero Nesting in order to adapt to climate and reduce its destructive effects in human architecture.as animals seek to build self-sustaining environment construction. therefore, according to the purpose of the research method, it is applied ...
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This study aims to get the idea from bird nesting and Rufous Hornero Nesting in order to adapt to climate and reduce its destructive effects in human architecture.as animals seek to build self-sustaining environment construction. therefore, according to the purpose of the research method, it is applied that based on the need for hypothesis from descriptive method to build the relationship between animal architecture and human architecture. of course, importing animal architecture to human architecture should be based on certain principles and rules that the concept of algorithm and algorithmic architecture with certain parameters it will provide the overall path without bias from the original purpose. at the end of the paper, is expected a desirable model that adapted to the various climate that resulted from the generalization of the architecture of birds and the Hornero Nest human architecture is through algorithmic architecture and can be used in building conditions with different climate to provide an appropriate answer. it is hoped that this research can pave the way for further research.
Environmental Education
Narges Adib rad; Alieh Yousof fam; Mahnaz Jafarieh
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Ecology criticism or “ecocriticism” can be considered as the study of relationships between literature and environment and quality of the reflection of human’s relationship with his physical environment. In this critique, the two-way relationship between the poet and the writer with ...
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Ecology criticism or “ecocriticism” can be considered as the study of relationships between literature and environment and quality of the reflection of human’s relationship with his physical environment. In this critique, the two-way relationship between the poet and the writer with nature and the effect of natural manifestations on their soul and live will be examined.In this article, in order to answer to this question that “what effect have had the temporal environments surrounding the poems on their poets?” studies the content and main theme of Environmental poems of the poets and explain their differences and common aspects according to literature and environment. In this research, in terms of purpose, practical and in terms of collection method, descriptive-analytical is based on documentary, the following results are obtained:The similarity of the concept of ecosystem and nature-centered from the perspective of ecocriticism among the achievements of the poets, caused by morals and common human nature and the result of the similarity of some of the most influential environmental factors is like 1- the school of romance 2- the unfavorable political and social conditions of society and 3- the influence of the living environment and childhood. In poetry poets have been examined, importance of attention to nature and ecosystem, expression of environmental crisis and consciousness to protect them, led to the use of poetry as an environmental-cultural media.Native identity, utopia, city of escape, drought crisis, pollution of water and soil and air, desertification and not paying attention to the earthquake crisis and the flood and war and etc... are the important similarities of the realm of the environment-axis attitude of the studied poets, and vicinity to the nature, type of the environment and the desirability of utopia are important differences of them.
Environmental Education
Reza Najjari; Maryam Darvish
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Nowadays, due to the growing process of global warming, increase of greenhouse gases and reduction of natural resources, environmental crises are more than ever before, therefore one of the topics that has attracted a lot of attention in educational systems is to present new attitudes of conservation. ...
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Nowadays, due to the growing process of global warming, increase of greenhouse gases and reduction of natural resources, environmental crises are more than ever before, therefore one of the topics that has attracted a lot of attention in educational systems is to present new attitudes of conservation. Environment is in education, which is considered one of the important tasks of the educational system and is applied in educational books. Considering the importance of the environment, the purpose of this research is to analyze the content of fourth grade textbooks based on the level of attention paid to green management components. The research method is descriptive and qualitative and quantitative content analysis, which analyzed the data using Shannon's entropy technique. The statistical population of the research includes social studies, Farsi and experimental science books of the fourth grade of elementary school, which due to the nature of the subject, sampling was not done and all the statistical population was examined. and the research tool in this research is a checklist and based on the report of the technical and research office of the "Green Management Steering Center", the indicators of green management in several main areas including energy management, water and wastewater management, benefit from renewable energy, waste management, pollution control Sound, transportation and the spread of culture and strengthening of social responsibilities in the field of environment, the selected books were studied according to these components. The obtained results showed that the highest coefficient of indicators related to green management for the fourth grade social studies course was for the index of energy management and use of renewable energy, respectively. For the Persian course, water and sewage management had an importance coefficient of 0.26, and for the experimental science course, water and sewage management, use of renewable energy, noise pollution control and transportation, energy management and promotion of culture and environment had an importance coefficient of was 0.17.
Roya Karami; Giti Salahi Esfahani
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Urban agriculture with major goals such as the preservation and optimal use of natural resources, the production of healthy and organic products, and the enrichment of leisure time, if implemented correctly, will be emerged as one of the strategies for sustainable urban development. This study first, ...
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Urban agriculture with major goals such as the preservation and optimal use of natural resources, the production of healthy and organic products, and the enrichment of leisure time, if implemented correctly, will be emerged as one of the strategies for sustainable urban development. This study first, describes the typology indices of urban agriculture including susceptible locations, potential executives and partners, educational needs, communication channels, and susceptible plants. It, then, analyzes the role of education in urban agriculture development and its influence on sustainable urban development using a causal-relational method. The present study was carried out by means of a survey method in Zanjan province. The target population of the study is about 367 experts of Zanjan Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization. The number of samples was determined using Krejcie and Morgan table. Sampling was done by cluster random sampling and from the total of eight counties, three counties were selected randomly, in addition to Provincial Headquarters of Zanjan Jihad-e-Agriculture Organization. The research tool was a questionnaire whose face, content, and convergent validity was evaluated and confirmed. The reliability of the instrument was confirmed using Cronbach's Alpha test and the combined reliability, with the value above 0.7. Data analysis was performed using SPSS24 and AMOS24 software. The research findings showed that education has a significant influence on urban agriculture development, and urban agriculture development plays a considerable role in sustainable urban development. Furthermore, education along with urban agriculture development explained 30% of variability in sustainable urban development. Therefore, cultural development and education are suggested for urban agriculture development.
Environmental Education
Ramesh Mehraban; Rohallah Rezaei
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The importance of the environment and its protection is one of the most critical issues worldwide. The issue of sustainability was raised as the destructive environmental effects of consumerism were revealed. Green consumption is an important means of change towards production and environmentally sustainable ...
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The importance of the environment and its protection is one of the most critical issues worldwide. The issue of sustainability was raised as the destructive environmental effects of consumerism were revealed. Green consumption is an important means of change towards production and environmentally sustainable consumption. Accordingly, the current study primarily was aimed to investigating the factors related to villagers' sustainable environmental consumption behavior. The statistical population of the study was included all heads of rural households in Mahidasht district in Kermanshah city, which according to the Housing Statistics and Population Census (2016), their number is 4637 people. Considering the formula of Bartlett et al. (2001), a sample of 310 rural households in the study area were selected using a two-stage sampling method. The data were collected using a questionnaire whose content validity was confirmed by a panel of experts. A pre-test was conducted to determine the reliability of the research tool, leading to appropriate Cronbach’s alpha values for the main scales (ranging from 0.85 to 0.91). According to descriptive results, 82.6% and 17.1% of the respondents showed behaviors related to sustainable consumption at moderate and low levels, respectively. The results of correlation analysis showed a positive and significant relationship between the variables of attitude, educational level, land ownership, annual income, and participation in training courses on the environmental issues and villagers' sustainable consumption behavior. Also, the results indicated a significant difference between the villagers' sustainable consumption behavior in terms of their sex.
Mahnaz Ranjbar; Sahar Tabibian; Saba Khalaj; Mojgan Noorafshan
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today, with rapid advancement of industry and technology, many concerns about the adverse consequences threaten human life. The objective of this research is to investigate environmental education as an implement to reduce and evaluate the environmental consequences of petrochemical products based on ...
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today, with rapid advancement of industry and technology, many concerns about the adverse consequences threaten human life. The objective of this research is to investigate environmental education as an implement to reduce and evaluate the environmental consequences of petrochemical products based on the hierarchical analysis. The methodology was a survey of a statistical group involving 30 managers and experts in the petrochemical industry. The tool for the survey has consisted of a questionnaire with a pair scale-single response. In this model, the validity of the research was confirmed by the Delphi method and obtaining the opinion of experts in the field of occupational health and reliability of the questionnaire calculated by the inconsistency rate (less than 0.1). First, three criteria including environmental impact, destruction of the natural environment, impacts on individual health, and the most important harmful effects of each criterion were identified. Among the three main criteria, the most influential factor is the environmental impact criterion with a relative weight of 0.670. The criteria for the destruction of the natural environment and health effect of petrochemical workers with a relative weight of 0.260 and 0.699, respectively, are in the next priority. The water pollution parameter with a relative weight of 0.602 is the most important among the 5 sub-criteria. The parameter of effects on the biological environment with a relative weight of 0.373 among the 3 sub-criteria, and the parameter of the respiratory system with a relative weight of 0.417 among the 5 sub-criteria have the greatest effect, respectively.
Rohollah Rezaei; Nafiseh Salahimoghadam
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Regarding the negative effects of overuse of pesticides on human health and the environment, in recent years, sustainable and green methods for pests control especially biological control have been considered by many researchers. However, due to the existence of various barriers, the process of adoption ...
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Regarding the negative effects of overuse of pesticides on human health and the environment, in recent years, sustainable and green methods for pests control especially biological control have been considered by many researchers. However, due to the existence of various barriers, the process of adoption and usage of biological control methods is very slow among farmers. Given the importance of the subject, the main purpose of this study was to analyze farmers’ barriers in using Habrobracon hebetor to control tomato Heliothis spp. in Tarom County. Methodologically, this study was a descriptive-correlational research. The statistical population of the study was 1666 tomato producers in Tarom County in Zanjan Province. Based on the Bartlett et al. (2001) formula, 330 producers were selected by the stratified sampling method for doing the study. A research-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts and specialists. A pilot study was conducted to establish reliability of the instrument, which the calculated Cronbach alpha's coefficient for the main scale of questionnaire was appropriate (above 0.75). Collected data were analyzed using the SPSSWin22 software. The results of a factor analysis revealed that the farmers’ barriers in using Habrobracon hebetor to control tomato Heliothis spp. in Tarom County were categorized into five factors including, financial-economic barriers, psychological-social barriers, cognitive-informational weakness, supportive weakness and technical constraints and these factors, in total, explained 68.73% of variances of the barriers.
Environmental Education
Rezvan Mehni Raftar; Amir Naeimi
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The purpose of this descriptive research was to analyze the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and the environmental behavior of rural women. The statistical population of the study was 1288 rural women in the Halil Rood watershed of Jiroft Township. Sample size determined 297 via ...
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The purpose of this descriptive research was to analyze the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and the environmental behavior of rural women. The statistical population of the study was 1288 rural women in the Halil Rood watershed of Jiroft Township. Sample size determined 297 via using Krejcie and Morgan’s table. Sampling method was proportional stratified sampling. The research instrument was a researcher-designed questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire confirmed by a panel of experts. To determine the reliability of the questionnaire, a pilot test was conducted. Then Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated. The value was between 0.71 to 0.87 for research variables. Research results showed that the majority of rural women had a desirable situation about all components of the theory of planned behavior (Attitude, Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavior Control, Intention, and Behavior). Research results also showed that the pro-environmental behavior of rural women was different according to their type of occupation and marital status. Also literacy and age had a significant relationship with pro-environmental behavior of rural women.
Environmental Education
Sayed Milad Ramin Azad; Babak Omidvar; Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri; Mohammad Mahdi Parhizgar
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Resilience has the potential to enter the environmental disaster management cycle: before, during and after an accident. The purpose of this study is to investigate the existing models in the field of resilience against environmental disasters. This research was conducted by Meta-Analysis method. The ...
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Resilience has the potential to enter the environmental disaster management cycle: before, during and after an accident. The purpose of this study is to investigate the existing models in the field of resilience against environmental disasters. This research was conducted by Meta-Analysis method. The statistical population of the current study included related researches that were available at inside and outside the country as full-text articles, dissertations and research projects in databases and libraries of Universities or government centers. Based on inclusion and exit criteria, 25 studies were reviewed. The results of the research led to the formation of a comprehensive model with 14 components of Environment and Agriculture, Human, Physical, Social and Cultural, Economic and Financial, Insurance, Risk Reduction, Psychological, Demographic, Institutional and Organizational, and Community Competency and Lifestyle, Information and Communication, Leadership and Strategy, and Protection and Security. Reliability was calculated through the Kappa coefficient with value of 0.95, which is at the level of excellent agreement. The model obtained from the research by identifying the factors affecting the community resilience against environmental disasters provides the possibility of improving crisis management, reducing damages and the necessary contexts for educational planning in the country.
Bijan Rezaee; Nader Naderi; Sahar Rostami
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Green entrepreneurship is now recognized as an effective strategy for the socio-economic development of countries, and its development can play an important role in sustainable employment creation, reducing environmental problems, reducing illnesses caused by unhealthy food and fertilizing more agricultural ...
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Green entrepreneurship is now recognized as an effective strategy for the socio-economic development of countries, and its development can play an important role in sustainable employment creation, reducing environmental problems, reducing illnesses caused by unhealthy food and fertilizing more agricultural land. The main purpose of the present research Developing a Green entrepreneurship model in agricultural sector (Case Study: Kermanshah County). This research is based on the Practical purpose and The overall approach is qualitative and Grunded Theory has been done. using Purpose foul and snowball sampling methods, Deep and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 experts from the field of agriculture and green entrepreneurship. The data from the interviews were analyzed through open, Axial and selective coding. Paradigm pattern of green entrepreneurship development from the causal conditions (scientific capacity of universities, strategic position of Kermanshah city, existence of environmental and natural factors, human resources, availability of agricultural equipment and alternative methods, presence of expert experts), factors of existence Export fields, globalization), interventional variables (development of technical and economic support issues, planning and policy development for the development of green entrepreneurship, stopping protection from chemical pesticide producers), strategies (promotion) And culture, training farmers, creating the ability to differentiate products, creating rules and regulations, and Letter-writing on the approval and sale of green products, the formation of associations, the integration of agricultural land) and the consequences (employment creation, human and environmental health, sustainable rural development, innovation and value creation, and fostering a generation Healthy children and adolescents) for the city of Kermanshah.
Environmental Education
Yazdan Shirmohammadi; Enayatullah Yazdanpanah; Afsane Yaaqoubi por fard; Fatemeh Takallou
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The best way to make individuals more conscious of the concerns and difficulties facing society is through education. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of tourists' experiences on environmental education through the resonance of the nature tourism destination brand and environmental ...
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The best way to make individuals more conscious of the concerns and difficulties facing society is through education. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of tourists' experiences on environmental education through the resonance of the nature tourism destination brand and environmental education to visitors. The knowledge of the environment among tourists can be raised through travel and nature tourism. People's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the environment are influenced by their experiences in the environment. The host society suffers when tourism numbers exceed an area's ecological capacity, which lowers the quality of the tourism experience. If this problem is ignored, society will face social and environmental challenges. The greatest and most efficient method for educating people and instilling a sense of responsibility in them is through environmental education. The sample size was determined by Cochran's formula of 384 people. The sample technique was convenience sampling, and the study's statistical population consisted solely of domestic tourists to Borujerd city. Expert judgments validated the research's validity, while Cronbach's alpha assessed its reliability. Through the resonance of the nature tourism destination brand and environmental education to tourists, as well as the resonance of the nature tourism brand on public environmental education, the research findings demonstrated that tourists experience has a positive and significant effect on environmental education.
Environmental Education
javad yousefi; mahmood ziaee; Mohammad Reza Karimi alavijeh; Seyed Mojtaba Mahmoudzadeh; Seyed Ali Hoseini
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Considering the importance of the hotel industry in tourism system and the necessity of social responsibilities, since there is no social responsibility model in the hotel industry in literature, this research formed to provide a model that fits Iran’s conditions. This is a kind of survey research, ...
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Considering the importance of the hotel industry in tourism system and the necessity of social responsibilities, since there is no social responsibility model in the hotel industry in literature, this research formed to provide a model that fits Iran’s conditions. This is a kind of survey research, which is done with a mix method approach. At the first phase, by means of interviews, the views of 4 and 5 star hotel managers in Tehran about the influential factors, strategies and consequences were collected, categorized and finally codified in the form of a model. In the quantitative phase, the components of the model were examined and confirmed in terms of validity and reliability, and the paths determined in the model was also statistically examined, modified and confirmed in the necessary cases. The overall goodness of fit of the model was confirmed according to the SRMR index. According to this model social responsibility in the hotel industry is influenced by driving factors (strategic commitment, considering stakeholders and moral commitment) which are influenced by contextual conditions. Strategies to achieve this goal include strategies in different fields (human resources, marketing, communication, green management, etc.) that are weakened or strengthened with intervening conditions (executive and managerial conditions, cultural conditions, media and communication conditions, and government facilitation) consequences of the implementing social responsibility include economic, social, environmental and organizational sustainability. The contribution of this research is knowledge enhancement which can be seen in the integration of the conditions affecting social responsibility, the strategies and consequences of the implementation of strategies in the form of a coherent model that has not been studied so far.
Maryam Naeemi; faeze nateghi; mahnaz jalalvandi
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The aim of this research is to provide a context-based teaching model in the experimental science course of elementary school with an emphasis on environmental conservation, which has been qualitatively, implemented using the approach based on data base theorizing. To collect information, semi-structured ...
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The aim of this research is to provide a context-based teaching model in the experimental science course of elementary school with an emphasis on environmental conservation, which has been qualitatively, implemented using the approach based on data base theorizing. To collect information, semi-structured interview was used and information analysis was done by Strauss and Corbin method and paradigm model. Sampling was a theoretical method based on which 25 interviews were conducted with primary teachers in Central Province. The results of the data obtained from the interviews during the process of open, central and selective coding led to the creation of the foundational data theory in the field of context-based education in the experimental science course of elementary school. In order to determine validity, subject experts and experts in the field of experimental sciences were used, and to determine reliability, retest and intra-subject agreement were used, and the value was 0.84. The proposed model in this research includes dimensions and effective components, obstacles and strategies, primary, background, mediating conditions and constituent elements that show the central phenomenon, consequences and strategies. Based on the research, context-based education in experimental sciences with emphasis on the environment is multi-part, which is affected by a set of hardware and software factors; therefore, if today's context-based education is not equipped with these skills in the experimental science course of the elementary school, environmental protection will not be achieved. Therefore, the integration of these factors in the elementary course of experimental sciences can help in maintaining, increasing and expanding students' environmental literacy.
