"For normal people, it just doesn't work": uncovering popular lenses on environmental sustainability in The Netherlands.

IF 4.8 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-13 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1080/15487733.2025.2500153
Kjell Noordzij, Joost Oude Groeniger, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal
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Abstract

Governments grapple with garnering public support for the interventions they propose to achieve with respect to environmental sustainability. We depart from the position that interventions for these issues must align with public perspectives to receive support among the population at large. Our study uses 14 focus-group interviews (n = 57) conducted in the Netherlands to inductively explore these perspectives on a wide range of sustainability issues and their interventions. Our sample predominantly comprises individuals who have not completed tertiary education. As extant research suggests, these individuals are less concerned with sustainability issues. We identify three lenses through which our respondents perceived sustainability, namely how it: 1) impacts their personal life (lens of need); 2) aligns with their community (lens of community); and 3) raises doubts (lens of doubt). They reveal that many respondents are principally engaged with sustainability in ways that they felt had practical repercussions for them or their community. We conclude by instigating a rethinking of inclusive sustainability interventions by sensitizing them to the perspectives individuals have of sustainability issues and interventions, and those of non-tertiary educated individuals in particular.

“对普通人来说,这根本行不通”:揭露荷兰环境可持续性的流行镜头。
各国政府努力争取公众支持它们为实现环境可持续性而提出的干预措施。我们不同意这样的立场,即对这些问题的干预必须符合公众的观点,才能得到广大人民的支持。我们的研究使用了在荷兰进行的14个焦点小组访谈(n = 57)来归纳探讨这些关于广泛的可持续性问题及其干预措施的观点。我们的样本主要包括没有完成高等教育的个人。现有的研究表明,这些人不太关心可持续性问题。我们确定了受访者感知可持续性的三个视角,即它如何影响他们的个人生活(需求视角);2)与社区保持一致(社区视角);3)引起怀疑(怀疑的镜头)。他们透露,许多受访者主要以他们认为对他们或他们的社区有实际影响的方式参与可持续发展。最后,我们鼓励对包容性可持续性干预措施进行重新思考,使其敏感于个人对可持续性问题和干预措施的看法,特别是那些未受过高等教育的个人。
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
CiteScore
12.00
自引率
0.00%
发文量
54
审稿时长
27 weeks
期刊介绍: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy is a refereed, open-access journal which recognizes that climate change and other socio-environmental challenges require significant transformation of existing systems of consumption and production. Complex and diverse arrays of societal factors and institutions will in coming decades need to reconfigure agro-food systems, implement renewable energy sources, and reinvent housing, modes of mobility, and lifestyles for the current century and beyond. These innovations will need to be formulated in ways that enhance global equity, reduce unequal access to resources, and enable all people on the planet to lead flourishing lives within biophysical constraints. The journal seeks to advance scientific and political perspectives and to cultivate transdisciplinary discussions involving researchers, policy makers, civic entrepreneurs, and others. The ultimate objective is to encourage the design and deployment of both local experiments and system innovations that contribute to a more sustainable future by empowering individuals and organizations and facilitating processes of social learning.
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