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The human behavioural crisis: A critical intervention point for ecological overshoot

In a year beset by record high air and ocean temperatures, wildfires and floods, and manifest across the globe, the reality of climate change is undeniable. However, dangerous climate change is but one of many interconnected symptoms of human ecological overshoot, along with relentless degradation of the natural environment, loss of biodiversity, and a host of social, economic and political trends.

Research, Editor's PicksRachel WolfeDecember 14, 2023Climate change, human effect on environment, environment, human behavioral crisis

Consumption of Green Products as a Means of Expressing Green Behaviour in an Emerging Economy

Environmental issues have advanced through different stages, and the concern for the challenges they present has doubled with each passing decade. Increasing awareness of environmental issues has led policymakers to promote ‘green behaviour’, behaviour that has a meaningful impact on the environment, that will potentially reduce environmental impacts like waste reduction and behaving right or avoiding wrong.

ResearchLORNA MCCONNVILLEFebruary 11, 2021SAGE post., Developmental Geography, Green behaviour, green culture, awareness, environment, urbanization