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"Die schlichte Rechnung hohes Umweltbewusstsein = umweltfreundliches Verhalten geht so einfach nicht auf. Neben dem Umweltbewusstsein beeinflussen noch mehrere Faktoren das Umweltverhalten. So kann man dann von einem umweltgerechten Verhalten ausgehen, wenn zum Umweltbewusstsein keine weiteren divergierenden Ziele dazukommen. Eine hohe internale und externale Verantwortungsattribution spielen ebenso eine wichtige Rolle für das Umwelthandeln wie die Einsicht in die Eigenverantwortlichkeit für die Umwelt. Außerdem kann umweltgerechtes Handeln nur dann durchgeführt werden, wenn das Handlungsangebot vorhanden ist. Förderlich ist auch, wenn umweltgerechtes Handeln einen positiven Stellenwert in der Bezugsgruppe hat und wenn es dem Handelnden ein Wohlbefinden vermittelt. Neben der Problematik der Allmende-Klemme können auch methodologische Ungenauigkeiten ein Grund für die Diskrepanz zwischen Umweltbewusstsein und Umwelthandeln sein. Hierunter zählen neben der unklaren Definitionslage das Problem der sozialen Erwünschtheit und des Weiteren messmethodische Schwierigkeiten in der Form, dass umweltgerechtes Verhalten eine Verhaltensgewohnheit darstellt, oft nur selbstberichtetes Verhalten abgefragt wird, nicht abgefragt wird, ob überhaupt ein Handlungs- und Gestaltungsspielraum vorhanden ist, Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltverhalten auf einem unterschiedlichen Spezifitätsniveau gemessen wird, der Zeithorizont der Frage nicht berücksichtigt wird und dass die Jahreszeit bei gewissen Fragen zum Umweltverhalten auch eine große Rolle spielt. Doch es gibt auch Kritiker, die eine Diskrepanz zwischen Umweltbewusstsein und Umwelthandeln ablehnen. Argumente hierfür sind zum einen, dass Umweltbewusstsein nicht in den Köpfen der Menschen verankert ist und es so bei diesen gar nicht zu einem Widerspruch beim Handeln kommt." (Autorenreferat)

In search of spatial extremes / A. Stein [and others] -- Operational evaluation of air quality models / P.D. Sampson and P. Guttorp -- Assessing the human health risk of atmospheric particles / R.L. Smith, J.M. David and P. Speckman -- Ozone dose mapping and the utility of models / C.W. Anderson and R.I. Smith -- Measuring and modelling pollution for risk analysis / J.V. Zidek and N.D. Lee -- A preliminary statistical examination of the efffects of uncertainty and variability on environmental regulatory criteria for ozone / L.H. Cox [and others] -- Statistics and environmental policy : case studies from long-term environmental monitoring data / R. Goudey and G. Laslett -- Better late than never? Injecting statistical know-how into legislation on water quality / A.E. Warn -- Indicator quality for multidisciplinary systems / J. Riley -- Integrating data for sustainable development : introducing the distribution of resources framework / J. Heycox -- Does environmental data collection need statistics? / M.P.J. Pulles -- Air pollution statistics in policy applications / R.I. Smith -- Agriculture sector resource and environmental policy analysis : an economic and biophysical approach / R.M. House [and others].

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