Bridging Environmental Values

当前的许多政府政策和举措旨在鼓励组织和个人改变有利于环境的行为(PEBC)，以改善环境污染和气候变化的驱动因素。有利于环境的行为是指有意识地寻求将自己的行为对自然和建筑世界的负面影响降至最低的行为(例如，将资源和能源消耗降至最低，使用无毒物质，减少废物产生等)。有利于环境的行为可以被视为自我利益(例如，追求一种将自身健康风险降至最低的战略)和对其他人、下一代、其他物种的关切的混合。这种行为改变方案的一个主要前提是，提供能够增进知识的信息，从而提高对环境的敏感性，从而鼓励个人对环境采取更负责任的方式。人们可能希望，在一个社会领域(家庭、工作、教堂、体育俱乐部)采取的亲环境行为可能会转化为人们在这些其他环境中的行为，例如，工作场所的回收或能源效率导致在其他环境中的匹配模式。然而，几乎没有证据表明人们实际上是如何在这些不同的环境中翻译和转移他们的活动的。管理工作领域和家庭领域之间的冲突已成为一个日益紧迫的问题。不同的地方，什么是可接受的做法的模式不同，这将对个人感知的行为选择产生强烈影响。人们有一种想要融入社会的倾向--并像他们的邻居和同龄人那样行事。例如，人们可能会在家庭环境中遵循一套信念，但不会将这种行为转移到他们的工作场所，反之亦然。为了向更可持续的社会过渡，有必要更好地理解行为中是否、如何以及为什么会发生这些脱节。更重要的是，确定和制定个人或社区主导的解决方案以克服这些脱节是一项挑战。艺术和人文科学的途径和方法提供了一种独特的方式来识别和调查这些行为选择，这些选择以前在这个领域没有得到广泛的应用。这项建议将试点一种结合参与性图表与共同创作和分析艺术作品的方法，与大约50名社区参与者一起调查这些选择、障碍和机会。人们希望视觉方法论的使用能够帮助人们表达用其他方法难以捕捉到的信息和感受。它们旨在创造一种更信任的氛围，加强参与者共享。创意过程也旨在激发参与者的新个人洞察力。例如，有人认为，在制作图纸的过程中，抽屉同时构建了图纸中所代表的知识和图纸本身的实际产品。参与者将从代表一系列强弱环境政策和相应的家庭行为模式的横截面企业中招募。这将使我们能够看到家庭行为和工作场所行为之间的联系和脱节的光谱。希望这项范围研究试验的新方法将确定新的机会和方法，探索鼓励和嵌入整个社会的环保行为的问题。无论是在英国还是在国际上，这个话题都具有持续的政策相关性。这可能会使该项目的调查结果与包括政策制定者、企业和环境组织在内的广泛受众相关。

Much current government policy and initiatives is aimed at encouraging pro-environmental behaviour change (PEBC) amongst organisations and individuals to ameliorate environmental pollution and the drivers of climate change. Pro-environmental behaviour means behaviour that consciously seeks to minimize the negative impact of one's actions on the natural and built world (e.g. minimize resource and energy consumption, use of non-toxic substances, reduce waste production, etc.).Pro-environmental behaviour can be viewed as a mixture of self-interest (e.g. to pursue a strategy that minimises one's own health risks) and of concern for other people, the next generation, other species, or whole ecosystems (e.g. preventing air pollution that may cause risks for others' health and/or the global climate).A major premise of such behaviour change programmes has been that providing information that improves knowledge leads to greater sensitivity toward the environment, which in turn will encourage individuals to engage in more responsible ways toward the environment. It may be hoped that pro-environmental behaviour undertaken in one social sphere (home, work, church, sports club) might translate to how people behave in these other settings for example, recycling or energy efficiency in the workplace leads to matching patterns in other settings. However, there is little evidence of how people actually translate and transfer their activities between these different settings. Managing the conflict between work and home domains has become an increasingly pressing issue. Different places varying patterns of what is acceptable practice that will have a strong influence on the perceived options of behaviour for individuals. People have a tendency of wanting to fit in - and behave as their neighbours and peers behave. People may operate to one set of beliefs in the home setting for example, but do not transfer this behaviour to their work place and vice-versa.In order to make the transitions to a more sustainable society it will be necessary to gain a better understanding of whether, how and why these disconnects in behaviour occur. More importantly there is the challenge of identifying and developing individual or community led solutions to overcome these disconnections. The arts and humanities approaches and methods offers a unique way of identifying and investigating these behaviour choices that has not been utilised extensively before in this field.This proposal will pilot an approach combining participatory diagramming with co-creation and analysis of art pieces to investigate these choices, barriers and opportunities with approximately 50 community participants. it is hoped that the use of visual methodologies ways for people to express information and feelings that are difficult to capture using other approaches. They are intended to create a more trusting atmosphere that enhances participant sharing. The creative process is also intended to stimulate amongst participants new personal insights. For example, it has been argued that through the process of producing a drawing, the drawer is simultaneously constructing the knowledge represented in the drawing and the actual product of the drawing itself.Participants will be recruited from a cross-section of businesses representing a spectrum of strong to weak environmental policies and corresponding home patterns of behaviour. This will allow us to look at the spectrum of connections and disconnections between home based actions and work place behaviour.It is hoped that the novel approaches piloted by this scoping study will identify new opportunities and methods for exploring the issues of encouraging and embedding pro-environmental behaviour across society. This topic has continuing policy relevance both in the UK but also internationally. This could make the project findings relevant to a wide range of audience including policy makers, businesses environmental organisations.