20.500.12556/RUL-114167 Public attitudes toward environmental protection in the most developed countries the Environmental Concern Kuznets Curve theory This paper presents the Environmental Concern Kuznets Curve (ECKC) theory about decreasing environmental concern in the most developed and protected area-rich countries. We analyzed the relationship between the protected area (PA) coverage, environmental concern and GDP per capita in the 42 most developed countries in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Our conclusion is that 1) as countries develop, environmental protection becomes less dependent on economic development; 2) at high levels of economic development, environmental concern decreases; 3) environmental concern reaches a maximum at 20–30% of PA coverage and decreases beyond this point. The influence of human values and factors at the local level was determined by a national survey (n = 999) on public attitudes toward greater conservation of forests in Slovenia. The results comply with the ECKC theory; the higher the naturalness of forests in the surroundings of a respondent's home, the lower the support for greater conservation. However, the study suggests that human values play a prominent role. Support for conservation largely depended on the respondents' general attitude toward forest cover and growing stock, harvesting intensities, satisfaction with the level of control in forests and concern for the population of protected brown bears. The general belief that ecosystems are fragile and there are limits to growth increased support for conservation by 33%. We conclude that the environment in the most developed countries is likely to experience increasing pressure due to decreasing environmental concern and its decoupling from objective problems. public participation in science invasive species monitoring public awareness visualisation communication conservation environmental behavior forest values developed world new ecological paradigm protected area public opinion okoljska zavest javno mnenje zavarovanje gozdov okoljska psihologija razviti svet Slovenija nova ekološka paradigma true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2020-02-19 12:31:37 2020-02-19 12:31:39 2025-04-10 04:12:51 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2019 0 0 Str. 968-981 Vol. 231 2019 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*9:502/504(4)(045)=111 0301-4797 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.10.087 5248678 720405 1-s2.0-S0301479718312271-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S0301479718312271-main.pdf 1 5CE83710E205D9B3C650E8E3E6026CAA 8605aa1511f58e6dce48ce23063fa3a1e0ff9b8f721d3de68df3b44c9b6f23d4 894c3304-1549-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201659 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479718312271 0 4c9f8fd5-1549-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201658 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0