Ecological Worldview among Urban Design Professionals
The built environment is responsible for a large proportion of the global use of energy, natural resources, and emissions. Architects and other urban design professionals are key actors in the building process whose behavior and decisions will influence these impacts. Because environmental attitudes...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:870d1d385b5049358ce70d26c89531a4 2023-05-15T17:04:13+02:00 Ecological Worldview among Urban Design Professionals Marita Wallhagen Peter Magnusson 2017-03-01 https://doi.org/10.3390/su9040498 https://doaj.org/article/870d1d385b5049358ce70d26c89531a4 en eng MDPI AG 2071-1050 doi:10.3390/su9040498 https://doaj.org/article/870d1d385b5049358ce70d26c89531a4 undefined Sustainability, Vol 9, Iss 4, p 498 (2017) architectural competition ecological environmental paradigm pro-environmental behavior urban design archi envir Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.3390/su9040498 2023-01-22T18:10:18Z The built environment is responsible for a large proportion of the global use of energy, natural resources, and emissions. Architects and other urban design professionals are key actors in the building process whose behavior and decisions will influence these impacts. Because environmental attitudes are linked to pro-environmental behavior, this study aims to measure environmental worldview among urban design professionals involved in the architectural competition ‘A New City Center for Kiruna’. The mean score registered for the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale was 3.68 (standard deviation 0.51) and there were no significant differences with regard to age (mean 41.3 years) or gender (64.7% males). The ecological worldview of the participants was similar to most other samples from diverse countries, but a lower score was reported in comparison to environmentalists. The score ranged from 2.53 to 4.67 which shows heterogeneity at an individual level. Thus, future efforts to improve environmental attitudes among urban design professionals are needed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kiruna Unknown Kiruna Sustainability 9 4 498 |
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The built environment is responsible for a large proportion of the global use of energy, natural resources, and emissions. Architects and other urban design professionals are key actors in the building process whose behavior and decisions will influence these impacts. Because environmental attitudes are linked to pro-environmental behavior, this study aims to measure environmental worldview among urban design professionals involved in the architectural competition ‘A New City Center for Kiruna’. The mean score registered for the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale was 3.68 (standard deviation 0.51) and there were no significant differences with regard to age (mean 41.3 years) or gender (64.7% males). The ecological worldview of the participants was similar to most other samples from diverse countries, but a lower score was reported in comparison to environmentalists. The score ranged from 2.53 to 4.67 which shows heterogeneity at an individual level. Thus, future efforts to improve environmental attitudes among urban design professionals are needed. |
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