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The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public - and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventionally assumed, will necessarily follow one from the other. But this approach ignores much of what is known about attitudes in general and environmental attitudes specifically - there is a huge gap between what we say and what we do. Solving environmental problems requires a scientific understanding of public attitudes. Like rocks in a swollen river, attitudes often lie beneath the surface - hard to see, and even harder to move or change. In Navigating Environmental Attitudes, Thomas Heberlein helps us read the water and negotiate its hidden obstacles, explaining what attitudes are, how they change and influence behavior. Rather than necessarily trying to change public attitudes, we need to design solutions and policies with them in mind. He illustrates these points by tracing the attitudes of the well-known environmentalist Aldo Leopold, while tying social psychology to real-world behaviors throughout the book. Bringing together theory and practice, Navigating Environmental Attitudes provides a realistic understanding of why and how attitudes matter when it comes to environmental problems; and how, by balancing natural with social science, we can step back from false assumptions and unproductive, frustrating programs to work toward fostering successful, effective environmental action.

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• Chapter 1 Attitudes, Rivers, and Environmental Fixes
• Chapter 2 Reading Water and Minds
• Chapter 3 Aldo Leopold Meets the Bennington Women
• Chapter 4 Attitudes are Not Everything
• Chapter 5 Educating the Public . . . and Other Disasters
• Chapter 6 Norms
• Chapter 7 Aldo Leopold and the Flying Horse
• Chapter 8 Avoiding the Cognitive Fix Keeper Hole
• Chapter 9 Going with the Flow
• Chapter 10 Increasing the Flow: Activating and Creating Norms
• Chapter 11 Thinking Beyond the Rim
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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Heberlein (emer., sociology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) guides readers in studying environmental attitudes, attitude change, and relationships between attitudes and behavior. The author combines data, case studies, and firsthand stories from a rich career of research and teaching. Eleven chapters offer intriguing examples, narrative, and empirical data from social psychological studies and policy interventions in conservation debates. The data debunk the common assumption that simply giving people information will change their environmental behavior. True to his metaphor of navigating the rocky river of an environmental crisis, Heberlein does not leave readers up a river without a paddle. Case studies of efforts to conserve energy on campuses, stop power plant construction, and reduce driving in Stockholm demonstrate that knowledge of attitudes, norms, and structural fixes can be used to change people's environmental behavior. Other texts map existing literature on environmental attitudes (see Raymond S. Nickerson's Psychology and Environmental Change, 2003, for example), but Heberlein's is uniquely engaging and fills a gap in undergraduate environmental sociology, conservation, or environmental policy courses. Summing Up: Recommended. Academic libraries. A. C. S. Swords Ithaca College

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Thomas A. Heberlein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Visiting Professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.