Utilizing a Social-Ecological Framework to Promote Water and Energy Conservation: A Field Experiment

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Kurz, T., Donaghue, N., & Walker, I. (2005). Utilizing a social-ecological framework to promote water and energy conservation: A field experiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35(6), 1281-1300.
The present study utilized a social-ecological framework to design an intervention to reduce residential water and energy use in a local community. An experimental design was used…

The Ways That People Talk About Natural Resources: Discursive Strategies as Barriers to Environmentally Sustainable Practices

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Kurz, T., Donaghue, N., Rapley, M., & Walker, I. (2005). The ways that people talk about natural resources: Discursive strategies as barriers to environmentally sustainable practices. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44(4), 603-620.
In this paper, we analyse talk about water and energy use taken from nine interviews with citizens of Perth, Western Australia. Participants' talk offered representations of water…

Do You See What I See? Examining the Epistemic Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture

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Carolan, M. (2006). Do You See What I See? Examining the Epistemic Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture. Rural Sociology, 71(2), 232.
This paper examines the epistemic barriers to sustainable agriculture, which are those aspects of food production that are not readily revealed by direct perception: such as decre…

Effective Tourist & Agricultural Water Efficiency Programs

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Lucy Allinson MELBOURNE Oct 20, 2010 6:26 am
Looking for examples of effective water efficiency programs that ideally have been implemented in tourist and agricultural regions.What the programs entailed, the duration of such…

High-power, High-efficiency Sprayer Nozzles for Commercial Food Services

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Michelle Vigen Washington Oct 6, 2010 16:06 pm
Does anyone have an experience with this program or this technology? http://www.savedallaswater.com/Nozzle.html http://www.savedallaswater.com/FAQ.html http://www.savedalla…

Journal Publications re Effectiveness of Tailored Information

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Sarah Wein Twin Cities Sep 29, 2010 21:52 pm
Hi, I am a current graduate student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, and am currently working on a thesis examining whether or not spatial grouping of households on a…

CBD stormwater and native fish

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Frances Forsyth Wellington Sep 26, 2010 16:29 pm
greetings, Wellington, New Zealand has a compact CBD situated between a harbour and a green belt. Native freshwater fish (Galaxiidae) migrate through the stormwater system bet…

Biochar as a Medium for Water Treatment

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Casey Cook Baysville Sep 21, 2010 19:23 pm
Hello: I am a recent graduate of the Environmental Technician Program at Sir Sandford Fleming College and a current student of the Ecosystem Management Technology Program. I a…

Reducing Water Use in Luxury Condo

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Jo Brooks La Jolla Sep 4, 2010 23:29 pm
As part of a sustainability class at UC San Diego, Im researching how to reduce water usage in a commonly metered luxury high rise (here in drought-prone Southern California) and …

The Attitude-Behavior Relationship: A Test of Three Models of the Moderating Role of Behavioral Difficulty

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Kaiser, F., & Schultz, P. (2009, January). The attitude-behavior relationship: A test of three models of the moderating role of behavioral difficulty. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(1), 186-207.
The moderating role of behavioral difficulty in the attitude–behavior relationship remains a controversial topic in social psychology. Previous research has been unclear in establ…

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