Environmental Identity and Natural Resources: A Dialogical Learning Process

Environmental Identity and Natural Resources: A Dialogical Learning Process

In this article, we elaborate on the role of dialogical learning in identity formation in the context of environmental education. First, we distinguish this kind of learning from conditioning and reproductive learning. We also show that identity learning is not self-evident and we point out the role of emotions. Using Dialogical Self Theory, we then suggest that individuals do not have an “iden...

Symbolic Resources in Dialogue, Dialogical Symbolic Resources

Uses of symbolic resources can be seen as dialogical processes: they take place in a cultural world constituted by semiotic exchanges; they can lead people to interact; and as artefacts, they contain echoes of many other voices. The article proposes to consider traditional Talmudic study as a paradigmatic dialogical situation, in which scholars learn to use traditional texts as resources to add...

Valuing or pricing natural and environmental resources?

This paper is a critique on contemporary non-market valuation study. We argue that the consumer value (willingness to pay (WTP)) derived from contingent valuation method or other methods is a poor guideline for resource allocation and cost–benefit analysis. Only shadow value is meaningful for the public and decision makers in resource allocation. Shadow value is the value to the society, or exc...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Learning Bayesian decision analysis by doing: lessons from environmental and natural resources management

The planet we are living on is getting small; each decade the number of people here grows by almost 1 billion. Due to the escalating pressure that mankind puts on natural resources and the environment, there is a pressing need to develop management schemes and approaches that acknowledge the pragmatic character of the problems: We scientists should not just passively obser6e and measure but als...