EcoTypes: Exploring Environmental Imaginaries ——— Jim Proctor Lewis & Clark College jproctor@lclark.edu @doctorjproctor ——— AAG Annual Meeting April 09, 2021
作者:Jim Proctor

1. Geography to ESS
1.1. UC Santa Barbara, 1992-2005 Department of Geography Environmental Studies Program
1.1.1. Ideas of nature
1.1.2. Nature, science, religion
1.1.3. Paradox
1.2. Lewis & Clark College, 2005– Environmental Studies Program
1.2.1. ESS curriculum
1.2.2. ESS & place
1.2.3. ESS theory
1.2.4. ESS engagement
2. The environmental (un)imagination
2.1. Unimaginative imaginaries: Sustainability
2.1.1. Sustainability and insular utopias
2.2. Integrative environmental imaginaries? Esbjörn-Hargens and Zimmerman (2009)
2.3. Measuring environmental imaginaries? Dunlap and van Liere (1978)
3. The EcoTypes survey
3.1. EcoTypes website
3.2. Fifteen EcoTypes axes: Aesthetics | Change | Diversity | Domain | Ecosystems | Ethics | Future | Nature | Science | Social Scale | Society | Spatial Scale | Technology | Time
3.3. Since January 2017 launch: – ~75 U.S. institutions of higher education – ~5000 survey completions – Primarily undergrads in enviro courses – Predictable demographics (largely white/young/etc.)
3.4. Sample key question/survey items: Nature
3.4.1. Sample distribution of responses: Nature
3.4.2. Sample deep dive: Nature
4. Empirical/theoretical outcomes
4.1. Axis descriptive statistics ( 2019)
4.2. Three EcoTypes themes: Place [green] | Knowledge [blue] | Action [red]
4.2.1. EcoTypes factor analysis results