scholarly journals Creating Environmental Stewards: Nonfiction Prompting a Sustainable Planet

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Reneé Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
Environmental Stewards

These days, I cannot imagine a subject more important than sharing books that celebrate nature and its worth—also relaying the importance of keeping our shared “home” healthy.Such literature will encourage environmental stewardship, create a generation that recognizes and understands the value, yet fragility, of Earth’s resources, and propagate a general consensus as to the manner in which humanity must preserve, conserve, and protect such resources that ensures the well-being of all life forms.

scholarly journals Learning for Stewardship in the Anthropocene: A Study with Young Adolescents in the Wet Tropics

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Wet Tropics ◽  
Sustainability Curriculum

Enhancing student capacity to act for sustainability is recognised as an important strategy for reversing current patterns of environmental degradation. To achieve this, the emerging Australian Curriculum incorporates a sustainability cross-curriculum priority, designed to ensure students develop the necessary knowledge, skills, values and world views to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. Stewardship has an important role to play in helping to develop sustainable patterns of living. However, it is not known to what extent or how the sustainability cross-curriculum priority includes stewardship.<br />This research investigates sustainability teaching and learning from an environmental stewardship perspective. Education based on environmental stewardship aims to develop an ethic of care for the natural and built world. Proponents of environmental stewardship argue that the approach is effective because it provides a foundation for the development of well-being, critical thinking and problem solving in tandem with the desire and confidence to act to maintain life supporting Earth Systems.<br />This research will apply an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design to map and review environmental stewardship in the Australian Curriculum’s sustainability cross-curriculum priority and in Year 10 students and teachers in the Wet Tropics region of Australia. Research methods will include a document analysis of the Australian Curriculum’s sustainability cross-curriculum priority; and survey and interviews to understand student and teacher subjective foundations of environmental stewardship and the expression of stewardship in school and life contexts. Subjective foundations include the existent aspirations, values and knowledge that guide student and teacher thinking and action for stewardship. Analysis and synthesis of this data, through a stewardship lens, will inform a stewardship pedagogical framework that will complement the sustainability curriculum.

scholarly journals In the Shadow of the Palm: Dispersed Ontologies among Marind, West Papua

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Chao
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Multispecies Ethnography ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
West Papua

This article explores how indigenous Marind of West Papua conceptualize the radical socio-environmental transformations wrought by large-scale deforestation and oil palm expansion on their customary lands and forests. Within the ecology of the Marind lifeworld, oil palm constitutes a particular kind of person, endowed with particular agencies and affects. Its unwillingness to participate in symbiotic socialities with other species jeopardizes the well-being of the life forms populating a dynamic multispecies cosmology, including humans. Drawing from ontological theories and the multispecies approach, I show how people in a remote place engage with adverse environmental transformations enacted by an other-than-human actor. Assumptions of human exceptionalism come under question in the context of a vegetal being that is exceptional in its own particular and destructive ways. Arguing for greater attention to other-than-human species that are unloving rather than unloved, I explore the epistemological frictions that arise from combining the anthropology of ontology with multispecies ethnography. I also attend to the implications of these theoretical positions in the real world of advocacy for those struggling in and against growing social and ecological precariousness.

scholarly journals Job passion in the context of green restaurant: Environmental stewardship orientation and job autonomy as antecedents

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Ching-Fu Chen ◽  
Shu-Chuan Chen ◽  
Pei-Shan Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Job Autonomy ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
And Performance

Job passion has recently gained increasing attention, as it is crucial to employee well-being and performance. To simultaneously highlight the current trends with regard to environmental issues and organizational psychology, this article investigates the potential antecedents (i.e. environmental stewardship orientation (ESO) and job autonomy) and consequences (i.e. job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and intention to leave) of harmonious job passion among employees working in green restaurants in Taiwan. Data collected from 299 valid samples were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that employees’ ESO and perceived job autonomy positively affect their harmonious job passion. Besides, employees with harmonious job passion may have positive job- and life-related outcomes, including high job and life satisfaction, and low intention to leave. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed, and directions for future research are identified.

scholarly journals TRAITS KEPRIBADIAN, SPIRITUALITAS, DUKUNGAN EMOSIONAL PASANGAN DAN PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP KESEJAHTERAAN PSIKOLOGIS IBU PENGHUNI 'SARANG KOSONG' DI KOTA BANDUNG - PERSONALITY TRAITS, SPIRITUALITY, MARRIAGE COUPLE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ON AND THE INFLUENCES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF EMPTY-NESTER MOTHERS IN BANDUNG

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ria Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Personality Trait ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Empty Nest ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Internal Resources

AbstrakMasa paruh baya adalah saatnya menghadapi fenomena 'sarangh kosong' yaitu rumah tanpa kehadiran anak-anak.  Sebagai suatu bentuk transisi kehidupan sekaligus life event, 'sarang kosong' ini merupakan kejadian yang harus diadaptasi, khususnya bagi para ibu.  Sebagai suatu proses, adaptasi ini akan melibatkan sumber daya internal (kepribadian dan spiritualitas) maupun eksternal (dukungan emosional pasangan) dan berujung pada terbangunnya kesejahteraan psikologis. Menggunakan desain penelitian causal inferences, seluruh responden yang berukuran 201 diolah datanya dengan menggunakan SEM-PLS.  Hasil penelitian membuktikan, secara serempak tidak semua trait kepribadian memberikan sumbangan pengaruh terhadap terbangunnya kesejahteraan psikologis ibu penghuni 'sarang kosong.' Akan tetapi spiritualitas dan dukungan emosional pasangan yang tumbuh setelah trait kepribadian memberikan respon atau tanggapan terhadap keadaan di 'sarang kosong' terbukti memberikan pengaruh terhadap kesejahteraan psikologis yang terbangun. Trait kepribadian dengan sifat-sifat khas yang terangkum di dalamnya perlu ditemukenali dengan baik oleh ibu penghuni 'sarang kosong' untuk kemudian diberdayakan sebagai kekuatan yang handal dalam proses adaptasi di masa transisi.   Kata kunci: masa transisi 'sarang kosong', kesejahteraan psikologis, spiritualitas, dukungan emosional, trait kepribadian AbstractMidlife is a time to face the phenomenon of empty nest that is house without the presence of children. As a transitional life forms, empty nest is an event that should be adapted, especially for mothers. As a process, this adaptation will involve internal resources (personality and spirituality) and external (partner's emotional support) and led to the establishment of psychological well-being. Research design causal inferences, the entire size of 201 respondents who processed the data by using SEM-PLS.The research proves, simultaneously not all personality trait contributed influence on the establishment of maternal psychological well-being. But spirituality and emotional support couples who grow after personality trait response to the situation in the empty nest proved to give effect to the psychological well-being awakened. Personality trait with distinctive properties are summarized to be identified properly by the mother occupants empty nest for later empowered as a reliable force in the process of adaptation in the transition period. Keywords : empty nest, psychological well-being, spirituality, emotional support, personality trait

scholarly journals Research and its social significance

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Kumar P. Mainali
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Investment Priority

It is we human beings who are to be blamed for the near or total extinction of many life forms with whom we coexist in this planet. Loss of biodiversity alters the ecosystem and makes human life increasingly difficult in many defined ways. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Current rates of loss of biodiversity are high and accelerating. However, preventing extinction is practical, but requires enough investment. It is always a nice idea to fund new ideas. However it is imperative that the first and foremost investment priority should be concerned with the current and imminent threats in our well being. Himalayan Journal of Sciences 1(1): 3-4, 2003 The full text is of this article is available at the Himalayan Journal of Sciences website

scholarly journals Assessing Environmental Stewardship Motivation

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 776-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bramston ◽  
Grace Pretty ◽  
Charlie Zammit
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Rural Australia ◽  
Acceptable Internal Consistency

Environmental stewardship networks flourish across Australia. Although the environment benefits, this article looks to identify what volunteers draw from their stewardship. The authors adapted 16 questions that purportedly tap environmental stewardship motivation and administered them to a convenience sample of 318 university students and then to 88 people living in rural Australia, who were either active members of environmental groups or voiced concern about local environmental issues. The results suggest that the measure consisting of these questions demonstrates acceptable internal consistency. Factor analyses support three relatively independent aspects of environmental stewardship motivation: (a) developing a sense of belonging, (b) caretaking the environment, and (c) expanding personal learning. Scores on the scale were not strongly correlated with well-being, suggesting that the scale measures more than general feelings of positive affect. Discussion focuses on the benefits of being able to reliably assess environmental stewardship motivation and areas for further development of the scale.

scholarly journals Construction of Meaning of Life: A Qualitative Study on a Subaltern Individual

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anand Shankar ◽  
Nishtha Jain
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Construction Of Meaning

Meaning of life forms the core of human existence and is the primary motive behind human action. Considering the role of culture and context in conferring meaning of life, the literature in subaltern studies in this area is severely lacking. The present study seeks to understand construction of meaning of life of a person belonging to a subaltern background from a qualitative perspective. The data was collected using unstructured interview from one individual with low job permanency and low financial stability. Using thematic network analysis, four global themes emerged: construction of rigid boundaries/ insurmountable walls in life; enhancing quality of life through positivity, balance, and work; living in the present; and a cauldron of strong repressed emotions. Meaning of life impacts an individual’s psychological well-being, health, quality of life, life satisfaction and meaninglessness may lead to psychological problems and depression. The study doesn’t comprehensively view the relation between meaning of life and class. It is important to carry out studies delineating the role of culture and class in construction and development of meaning of life.

scholarly journals Coping and Co-creation: One Attempt and One Route to Well-Being. Part 1. Conceptual Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170
Author(s):  
Tjeerd C. Andringa ◽  
Florence C. Denham
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Common Core ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Behavioral Diversity ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Agency Behavior ◽  
Core Cognition ◽  
Key Terms

Background. All life strives to be well, but not all life is well. This suggests that cognition aimed at improving and protecting well-being might share a common core across all life forms: core cognition Objective. In this first of a two-part theoretical article, we systematically specify the evolutionary core cognition of well-being from the perspective of general living agents. In Part 2 we apply this to identity development and the theoretical approaches to well-being. This first part aims to identify the strategies and conditions for the creation and protection of generalized well-being and describes associated behavioral ontologies. Results. We defined a set of key terms that, together, specify core cognition. This set comprises quite naturally concepts like agency, behavior, need satisfaction, intelligence, authority, power, and wisdom, which are all derived from the defining properties of life. We derived coping and co-creation as two essentially different, but complementary, behavioral ontologies. Coping is for survival and targeted problem solving and aims to end the need for its activation. Co-creation is for thriving and problem prevention and aims to perpetuate its activation. Co-creation can explain the growth of the biosphere. While both strategies are essential, the successful interplay of their strengths leads to the dominance of one of them: co-creation. Absence of success leads to a dominance of coping: a coping-trap and a strong urge to curtail behavioral diversity. We summarize the key terms of core cognition and the ontologies in two tables with defined terms.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Philip V. Mladenov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Recreation And Tourism

The oceans cover 71 per cent of our planet’s surface, create a vast globally connected fluid living space, and support a diverse array of life forms. The Introduction outlines the ocean environment’s role in providing essential services for human survival and well-being. They produce half of the oxygen we breath; stabilize our climate; sustain ecosystems that protect our coasts; provide us with abundant healthy food and with natural products for medicine and biotechnology; and support many forms of recreation and tourism. But all of this is under threat due to human activity. Action is required to create a more sustainable relationship with our oceans so that they can be restored and protected for future generations.

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