Paul C. Stern

Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern

A social-psychological model is developed to examine the proposition that environmentalism represents a new way of thinking. It presumes that action in support of environmental ...

New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior

This article develops a conceptual framework for advancing theories of environmentally significant individual behavior and reports on the attempts of the author's research group...

Influences on Attitude-Behavior Relationships

A simple model was tested in which attitudinal factors and external conditions act in combination to influence behavior. The model predicts that behavior is a monotonic function...

The New Ecological Paradigm in Social-Psychological Context

The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale is the most frequently used measure of environmental concern, but it has not been placed in the context of a social-psychological theory ...

Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases of Environmental Concern

Efforts to explain environmental concern as a function of social structure have revealed some weak but reliable associations. Stronger associations have been found between envir...

Personal and contextual influences on househould energy adaptations.

Une etude concernant 478 particuliers consommateurs d'electricite du Massachusetts renseigne sur les effets interactifs de variables economiques, demographiques, structurelles e...

Making Climate Forecasts Matter

El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings. The emerging ability to forecas...

Environmentally significant consumption : research directions

There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, is at the root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals an...

Toward a theory of choice: Socially embedded preference construction

Environmental Problems and Human Behavior

The Struggle to Govern the Commons

Human institutions—ways of organizing activities—affect the resilience of the environment. Locally evolved institutional arrangements governed by stable communities and buffered...