The Psychology Of Environmental Stewardship
NRE 361 / Environ 361
Credits: 3

The Psychology of Environmental Stewardship: This course will explore the techniques available for changing individual conservation behavior with a focus on achieving durable change. It will be argued that individuals require information and motivation before they are willing to alter their behavior. Furthermore, only certain types and combinations of information and motivation result in long-lasting, durable behavior change.
Source Reduction and Recycling: While the behavior change framework could be applied to any conservation behavior (e.g., control measures) this course will apply it to non-hazardous solid waste management. The course will also examine a waste management hierarchy that focuses first on pollution prevention (i.e., source reduction) and will be as concerned with natural resource conservation as with the current waste management crisis.