An Application of the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale in a Greek Context

Stamatios Ntanos,Michalis Skordoulis,Grigorios Kyriakopoulos,Miltiadis Chalikias,Garyfallos Arabatzis

doi:10.3390/en12020239

Abstract

Measuring and analyzing public perceptions of the environment are becoming core elements in promoting environmental sustainability, which is a key goal to be achieved. The New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP) is used as a unidimensional measure of environmental attitudes as it is developed in order to measure the overall relationship between humans and the environment. A high NEP score is associated with high ecocentric orientation. This research aims to measure and analyze citizens’ NEP score in a Greek area. Overall, the statistical analysis verified the existence of the NEP subscales, indicated increased environmental awareness among the respondents and revealed that the respondents’ NEP score is correlated with the area of residence. Furthermore, the NEP score is correlated at a statistically significant level with respondents’ willingness to pay for renewable energy expansion.

Highlights

With respect to a historical viewpoint of the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) conceptualization and applicability, only a few research works were devoted to the adjustment of the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scaling to strictly environmental issues between the years 1980–1990
A reliability test was run in order to measure the NEP Scale’s internal consistency in the Initially, a reliability test was run equal in order to measure the NEP
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Introduction

With respect to a historical viewpoint of the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) conceptualization and applicability, only a few research works were devoted to the adjustment of the NEP scaling to strictly environmental issues between the years 1980–1990. By the end of 1980s, handling of the out-of-border environmental issues of aquifer pollution, land desertification, protection of endangered ecosystems and atmospheric degradation necessitates the adaptation of NEP scaling towards recognizing and confronting the reality of global environmental change [1]. In response to this environmental transition from the local to global level of manipulation, a measurable tool of 3 revisions of the original NEP Scale was developed by Dunlap [1], with the latest revision rapidly replacing the 1978 version in most studies. Xiao viewpoint of NEP conceptualization under the the aspects of consistency and dimensionality. NEP scaling aims at broad spectrum spectrum of of ecological ecological viewpoints viewpoints and and environmental environmental items items to to verify verify environmental environmental concerns concerns broad measured worldwide

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