The suite of ideas that affect our outlook on environmental issues is diverse, and has been explored via a range of typologies. What we have done here is organize them, based on theoretical and emp…
Source: EcoTypes Axes
Recently I shared our EcoTypes review of environmental typologies; as part of an ongoing series of excerpts from the EcoTypes site (where most content is restricted), today I’m sharing some background to the eleven EcoTypes axes, below [just enough so as not to bias survey data!]…
The suite of ideas that affect our outlook on environmental issues is diverse, and has been explored via a range of typologies. What we have done here is organize them, based on theoretical and empirical literature, into a set of axes, each defined by oppositional poles. While this approach is a sort of Procrustean bed, it does bring into stark relief the fundamental choices we have in defining what it means to be an environmental scholar and activist.…
Here is a quick overview of eleven initial EcoTypes axes, arranged in alphabetical order by axis. Each axis is linked to a summary page with detailed information and resources. Survey items related to each axis were occasionally derived from existing large-scale surveys with publicly available data, including the International Social Survey Programme and World Values Survey, in order to afford some comparison. There may be significant correlations among axes; our collective data and discussions may lead us to combine or eliminate certain axes in future.
The featured image, if you were wondering, is of Procrustes himself, battling it out with Theseus in one of many such images. I suppose the moral of the story is not to get too close to Procrustes’ bed! (Or to incur the wrath of Theseus.) Or, in our case, to make sure our beds don’t lop off too many dimensions of environmental ideas.
Your thoughts, please?