Swedish Upper Secondary School Students' Conceptions of Negative Environmental Impact and Pricing

被引:6
作者
Ignell, Caroline [1 ,2 ]
Davies, Peter [3 ]
Lundholm, Cecilia [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Stockholm Univ, Dept Educ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Uppsala Univ, GRESD, Grad Sch Educ & Sustainable Dev, S-75002 Uppsala, Sweden
[3] Univ Birmingham, Sch Educ, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[4] Stockholm Univ, Dept Educ, Ctr Teaching & Learning Social Sci, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[5] Stockholm Univ, Stockholm Resilience Ctr, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
基金
瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
externalities; conceptions of price; conceptions of human and physical environment interactions; CLIMATE-CHANGE; OZONE-LAYER; EDUCATION; EMISSIONS; DEPLETION;
D O I
10.3390/su5030982
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
This study explores relationships between upper secondary school students. understanding of prices and environmental impacts. The study uses responses from 110 students to problems in which they were asked to explain differences in prices and also to express and justify opinions on what should be the difference in prices. Very few students expressed an environmental dimension in their understanding of price. A few students suggested that environmental impact influenced price by raising demand for "Environmentally friendly products". A few students suggested that, environmentally friendly products. had higher prices because they were more costly to produce. We found no examples of students combining both lines of explanation. However, nearly half of the students believed that prices should reflect environmental effects, and this reasoning was divided between cases where the point was justified by a broad environmental motivation and cases where the point was justified in relation to incentives-to get consumers to act in a more environmentally friendly way.
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页码:982 / 996
页数:15
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