Up until the 1970s, environmental protection largely consisted of a patchwork of state laws, local ordinances and common law nuisance protections. By the late 1960s, state and local governments had adopted various environmental measures. Nonetheless, there was a general perception that they were unable or unwilling to address most environmental concerns. Congress responded with an array of envi...

Strong negative reactions, physical symptoms, and behavioral disruptions due to environmental odors are common in the adult population. We investigated relationships among such environmental chemosensory responsivity (CR), personality traits, affective states, and odor perception. Study 1 showed that CR and neuroticism were positively correlated in a sample of young adults (n = 101), suggesting...

A major challenge in understanding energy balance is deciphering the neural and molecular circuits that govern behavioral, physiological, and metabolic responses of animals to fluctuating environmental conditions. The neurally expressed TGF-beta ligand DAF-7 functions as a gauge of environmental conditions to modulate energy balance in C. elegans. We show that daf-7 signaling regulates fat meta...

This study explored whether sensorimotor experiences of cutting down a tree in a virtual forest would be more effective compared to mentally simulating the same experience in terms of increasing pro-environmental self-efficacy and behavior in the physical, non-mediated world. Two modalities for embodying the tree-cutting experience were compared: immersive virtual environment and mental simulat...

Farmers' perception of the environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology diffusion and factors determining such awareness were examined using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that farmers are well aware of the adverse environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology, although their awareness remains confined within visi...

In the present article we test a social marketing tool, to induce pro-environmental consumer behavior. The tool intends to do so by changing a target’s self-perception from someone who usually does not engage in pro-environmental behavior to someone who usually engages in pro-environmental behavior. It is based on the assumption that people may fail to view themselves as environmentally conscio...

this paper aims to analyze the effect of perception of nature in the built environment on the sociability of spaces. in this paper, quality of sociability of spaces is considered as a dependent variable which can be affected by possibility and quality of perception of nature in the built environment as independent variables. in order to make the analysis, built environment is considered as a so...

Blood cell production is tightly regulated by cell-intrinsic mechanisms and environmental factors. The study by Utpal Banerjee and colleagues and colleagues reveals that, in Drosophila, olfactory signals control hematopoietic progenitor maintenance, thus uncovering a physiological link between sensory perception and hematopoietic response to environmental stress.