Research Paper
Environmental Education
Gholamreza Khoshfar; Zahra Pazokinejad
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the semantic system of ecotourism resort owners about the effects of Coronavirus on the environment and nature to show how they understand, interpret and evaluate this phenomenon and its consequences. 12 owners of ecotourism resorts in Mazandaran province participated ...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the semantic system of ecotourism resort owners about the effects of Coronavirus on the environment and nature to show how they understand, interpret and evaluate this phenomenon and its consequences. 12 owners of ecotourism resorts in Mazandaran province participated in this study. After discovering the basic concepts and major categories in the axial coding stage, the process of connecting the categories was done based on their properties. The environmental effects of Coronavirus as a core category, major categories under the headings of consumption, environmental attitudes, barriers, and solutions/strategies were revealed as major categories. Food consumption (packaged and home-made), consumption of hygienic chemicals, consumption of natural sources (water, energy) under the category of consumption, attitudes towards littering, biodiversity conservation, environmental pollution under the category of attitudes towards the environment, legal, individual and structural barriers were placed under the category of barriers to pro-environmental behaviors and creating opportunities for support, increasing environmental awareness and attracting public participation under the category of solutions/strategies. According to the respondents, the emergence of Coronavirus has increased littering in nature and due to its social fear, the volume of new waste (masks and gloves) has increased; however, the positive effects such as biodiversity conservation and reduction of air pollutants due to reduced traffic would be transient and temporary.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Parastoo Iranpour; Faezeh Taghipour; Seyed Behnam Sarvarinejad
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The aim of this study is to provide a model for promoting citizens' water literacy for sustainable media-based development. According to the purpose of this research, it is an applied and exploratory type that has been obtained by the method of Strauss and Corbin's systematic method of data foundation ...
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The aim of this study is to provide a model for promoting citizens' water literacy for sustainable media-based development. According to the purpose of this research, it is an applied and exploratory type that has been obtained by the method of Strauss and Corbin's systematic method of data foundation theory. Due to the qualitative approach of the research, in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 experts in the fields of environment, water, social sciences, and communications using theoretical sampling. Then the data were analyzed and 1120 primary codes of open coding, 71 categories of axial coding, and 23 main factors of selective coding were identified. The main contribution of this research is the promotion of water literacy, which have been formed according to the causal conditions (targeting and policy-making in water literacy, water valuation, water attitudes, water skills, water knowledge, literacy promotion), the underlying factors (media diversity) as well as the intervening factors (media politicization, journalists' dependence on sources of power), which was obtained through the strategies such as a change in educational system, pathology of educational master plans, interaction of industry, educational institutions and universities, promotion of social capital, interaction with media, audience, media greening, complete and rich media content, institutionalization of water discourse, agile media interaction. In the second stage, in order to weigh the causal conditions and strategies, hierarchical analysis was used. The results revealed that among the causal conditions, targeting and policy-making were the most important priorities in water literacy.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Babak Omidvar; Reza Ghasemi; Mostafa Behzadfar
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The study of the resilience of the cities against earthquake is one of the necessities for the reduction of losses and death toll of the earthquakes. Resilience has various definitions and there is not a unique comprehensive model for its quantitative assessment. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to ...
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The study of the resilience of the cities against earthquake is one of the necessities for the reduction of losses and death toll of the earthquakes. Resilience has various definitions and there is not a unique comprehensive model for its quantitative assessment. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive quantitative indicator for resilience and to study the efficacy of social and governance strategies in improvement of urban resilience against earthquake. To achieve this aim, first effective dimensions and indices of resilience of urban areas were explored and extracted by reviewing available research studies and experts elicitation method. Then based on experts’ opinions and pairwise comparison the model was justified and the relative weights for dimensions and indices were obtained and a comprehensive overall resilience index was introduced. Using the proposed index, the efficacy of different social and governance strategies were compared considering three different earthquake scenarios of North-Tehran, Ray fault, and floating faults. The comparisons were based on three metrics i.e. absolute value of resilience increase, distance from the origin of the Pareto chart considering implementation duration time and costs, and the ratio of cost to resilience increase. In this regard, strategy S3 (90 percent increase of social resilience), strategy S1 (10 percent increase of social resilience) and strategy S3 were the optimal ones based on the first, second, and third metrics, respectively. On the whole, the social strategies had better efficiency than the governance ones, but it seems in practice the social and governance strategy categories must be implemented in an integrated manner which could be considered as a future research proposal.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Meimanat Abedini Baltork; Hojjat Saffar Heidari
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of attention to the environmental crisis issue in elementary school textbooks. The method is Shannon entropy. The unit of analysis contains texts, activities, and images that 3961 pages were totally reviewed. The statistical population consisted of ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of attention to the environmental crisis issue in elementary school textbooks. The method is Shannon entropy. The unit of analysis contains texts, activities, and images that 3961 pages were totally reviewed. The statistical population consisted of elementary school books and all of them were selected as samples. The components and indicators of the environmental crisis were extracted from documents and earlier sources and checked out in the books. The research content validity was obtained using CVR which was 0.90 and confirmed, and the reliability was 0.98 based on the agreement coefficient. Findings have shown that in elementary books, a total of 68 cases were referred to the environmental crisis; 19 cases were related to the soil crisis, 18 cases were related to water, 18 of them were related to noise crisis and 13 subjects were related to air crisis. Also, the highest coefficient of importance was related to the soil crisis component (0.411) and the lowest coefficient of importance was related to the air crisis component (0.204). Among the textbooks; science books dealt with the environmental crisis more than any other book. In the next place were the Farsi books (reading) and finally the social studies books. No other cases for the attention to the environmental crisis were observed in the other elementary school textbooks.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Afsane Ahmadi Moghadam; Mahboubeh Soleimanpour omran; Behrang Esmaili Shad
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In this study, an attempt was made to explain and identify the green curriculum training plan in Iranian education, through qualitative research design and in particular qualitative case study. In this regard, faculty members in the fields of curriculum planning, social sciences, and environment from ...
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In this study, an attempt was made to explain and identify the green curriculum training plan in Iranian education, through qualitative research design and in particular qualitative case study. In this regard, faculty members in the fields of curriculum planning, social sciences, and environment from selected universities - as our study experts - were selected by using a purposeful approach. Leading experts were selected by using the theoretical saturation criterion. The interview was carried out with all the10 members of the study sample. Then, the obtained data were analyzed for the content analysis technique using Nvivo software. The findings were organized in the form of themes. Based on the results, a matrix framework of curriculum elements (purpose, content, teaching method, and evaluation) was formed. 4 organizing themes and 21 basic themes were identified and a network of themes was extracted; thus, the design of a green curriculum for the Iranian education system (as a comprehensive theme) with the following organizing themes in 4 dimensions introduced: objectives, content, teaching methods, and evaluation. Each of the categories has different dimensions in the basic themes of the organized framework, hence as a content plan of the green curriculum in the Iranian education system. Obviously, the findings of this study have provided the possibility of teaching a green curriculum in the Iranian education system in primary schools.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Bahram Sarmast; Ahad Rezayan Ghayehbashi; Amin Moeinian; Afsaneh Abbasi
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Despite nearly two decades from Agenda 21 adoption, emphasizing the design and implementation of sustainable development indicators, there is no consensus on Sustainability indicators for designing and evaluating it to be acceptable to all elites and experts around the world. Recently, the issue of Intergenerational ...
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Despite nearly two decades from Agenda 21 adoption, emphasizing the design and implementation of sustainable development indicators, there is no consensus on Sustainability indicators for designing and evaluating it to be acceptable to all elites and experts around the world. Recently, the issue of Intergenerational justice in sustainable development has been of great importance. This paper addresses the identification of environmental indicators related to intergenerational justice for sustainable development. The method of this research is qualitative and with respect to the target, it is an exploratory study. The participants in this study were 18 academic and executive experts selected by purposeful and non-probable methods. Interviews were analyzed through the thematic analysis method, and later the MAXQDA software was used to display the grid. The result of this research was the identification of 43 sub-themes in the form of nine themes. The themes were natural resources, social capital, laws and regulations, spatial planning, renewable energy, environmental vulnerability, environmental health and sustainability, environmental performance, and ecological footprint.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mohaddethe Taherpourmansour; Sadegh Salehi
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Economic activities in Mazandaran province have long been focused on agricultural and livestock products. Farmers have always used water resources for their activities, but after the collapse of traditional system, attracting capital and changing the direction of investment, a new type of production ...
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Economic activities in Mazandaran province have long been focused on agricultural and livestock products. Farmers have always used water resources for their activities, but after the collapse of traditional system, attracting capital and changing the direction of investment, a new type of production has been formed alongside this traditional method, which is based on production for profit. The purpose of this study is to investigate and explain the role of investment growth on agriculture in creating unstainability in water resources of Mazandaran province. The present study, applying Schneiberg’s production treadmill theory, seeks to answer this fundamental question: What effect has the growth of investment on agriculture had on the unsustianability of Mazandaran's water resources? In this research, quantitative method and strategy of secondary data analysis and comparative study have been used. The results of the present study showed that investment in the main inputs of agricultural production and conversion industries and agricultural services has increased and at the same time, the consumption of aquifers in the province has increased from 791 million cubic meters in 1389 to 1377 million cubic meters in 1398. . In addition, the research results show an increase in pollution of water resources in Mazandaran. In general, the results of the present study indicate that the growth of investment affects unsustainability of water resources and therefore, Schneiberg's production treadmill theory is confirmed.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mohammad Taghi Heydari; Anita Majidi Heravi; Mohammad Rasoli; Parvin Rahami
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Education is not limited to chalk and talk in the 21st century, but learning science is possible through different formats and methods. Meanwhile, visual representations of a city could be considered by a system of signs and based on the opposition between emotional motivation and the visible structure ...
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Education is not limited to chalk and talk in the 21st century, but learning science is possible through different formats and methods. Meanwhile, visual representations of a city could be considered by a system of signs and based on the opposition between emotional motivation and the visible structure of the material world and through a complex system of signs, as well as social, economic, and cultural characteristics of the communities. Hence, these visual representations of the cities play an important role in the metamorphosis of urban spaces; besides reproduction or elimination and decline of semantic values during time. With this approach, the main purpose of this paper is to study the function feasibility of theme parks in the realization of learning city. This topic is important for urban planning studies, more than ever with respect to the concepts and theoretical and practical configurations. In regard to its purpose and nature, this study is an applied research, and based on its method it is a descriptive-analytical study. The study was carried out in September 2017. Thus, 34 items with seven components and four indicators have been identified to check the thematic parks for the realization of a learning city. Mental model software is used to analyze the performance of the indicators. Confirmatory factor analysis was used in SMART PLS software to confirm or reject the performance findings of the indicators. The research results showed that the items have been effective in the theme parks with different coefficients (from high to low impacts) and with an increasing trend in the realization of learning city, in this way, the indicators of continuity in activities, creating conditions for healthy competition, identifying competencies and moral excellence have had the greatest impacts and centrality with effect 11.21, 10.58, 10.45 and 10.41, respectively. Also, the findings of confirmatory factor analysis showed a strong relationship between the performance of theme parks and the learning city by confirming the relationship among the indicators, in Mellat Park of Zanjan.
Research Paper
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.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Elham Heidarzadeh; Akbar Varvaii; Mansour Pournouri; Naser Ghasemi
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The main issue presented in this article, which is going to review the rights to a healthy environment and the prohibition of air pollution, in particular dust, now has become an issue that needs national solidity and regional interactions for a solution; and to enable the decrease of the pollution for ...
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The main issue presented in this article, which is going to review the rights to a healthy environment and the prohibition of air pollution, in particular dust, now has become an issue that needs national solidity and regional interactions for a solution; and to enable the decrease of the pollution for the affected countries as well. Dust is a phenomenon that is the result of an environmental crisis. The absence of international rules, as well as uncertainty in states’ obligations toward each other, have complicated this crisis on the regional and international levels. The main goal of this article is first, recognizing the Customary and general principles that are existing in Iranian laws to arrange regional programs to decrease and diminish the dust phenomenon. Second, the article intends to raise sensitivity in people toward the critical and dangerous conditions of environmental pollutions. Third, it is going to lay legal and executive grounds to increase the local institutions and international organizations’ responsibilities for such issues. However, the main question in this article, with descriptive-analytical approach, is: in the absence of binding and identified international and regional obligations regarding dust, in what ways affected governments could protect the right to a healthy environment for their citizens? Based on this question, one can conclude that even though the affected governments do not maintain reciprocating conventions, the international customary law and local legal general principles of those countries conform to the governments’ obligation; and suggest that they take action against any harm, in particular, the environmental irreparable harm to their citizens.
