TY  - CHAP
AU  - Hernández, B.
AU  - Suárez, E.
AU  - Hess, S.
AU  - Corral-Verdugo, V.
T1  - Ecological worldviews
LA  - eng
PY  - 2010
SP  - 81
EP  - 108
T2  - Psychological Approaches to Sustainability: Current Trends in Theory, Research and Applications
SN  - 9781608763566
PB  - Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
AB  - Conceptions regarding how the world works and what is humankind's role in its relations with nature are approached as Ecological Worldviews. This chapter firstly reviews the Worldview general concept and then discusses the way Environmental Psychology has so far analyzed systems of belief, values, attitudes, ideological principles concerning human being - environment relations, and, especially, how these aspects are integrated within ecological worldviews. Particular attention is paid to a contraposition between the worldview privileging an anthropo-centered and exceptionalist vision of human-environment relations and the alternative bio-centered worldview. This contraposition is reviewed by considering, in the one hand, the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) and Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP) tenets, and, on the other hand, the anthropocentrism - ecocentrism attitudinal duality that is apparent in ecological worldviews. The chapter also analyzes the Human Interdependence concept at the basis of sustainability and sustainable development notions, by considering this concept as the core of a New Human Interdependence Paradigm, an ecological worldview encompassing and integrating ecocentric and anthropocentric systems of belief. Finally, the chapter presents results from an empirical study aimed at deepening on the conceptualization of this new ecological paradigm. © 2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
UR  - https://portalciencia.ull.es/documentos/5e3c358f29995246bbf5d6dd
DP  - Dialnet - Portal de la Investigación
ER  -