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From Cognition to Conservation: Applying Grid–Group Cultural Theory to Manage Natural Resources
by Xuefeng Quan, Xiaoyu Song and Thi Phuong Nguyen
Sustainability 2025, 17(10), 4613; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17104613 - 18 May 2025
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Harmony between humans and nature can be achieved by changing human perceptions and behavioral patterns towards natural resources. Cultural cognition can guide human behavior. By reviewing the development of grid–group culture theory, its classification methods, and its application to natural resource management, this [...] Read more.
Harmony between humans and nature can be achieved by changing human perceptions and behavioral patterns towards natural resources. Cultural cognition can guide human behavior. By reviewing the development of grid–group culture theory, its classification methods, and its application to natural resource management, this study expects to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interactions between the worldviews, behavioral trends, and resource management practices of different types of people. By summarizing the application of the theory to multiple dimensions of natural resource management, the study finds the following: (1) changes in dominant cultural types at the same hierarchical level can change natural resource management strategies, and changes in cultural types of lower hierarchical groups are unable to drive policy changes; (2) the cultural types of policy followers in natural resource management are influenced by factors such as age, education, and gender, while natural resource policy (policy makers) cultural types are influenced by the natural resources themselves; (3) hierarchical natural resource management strategies are a more limited way of managing natural resources, at present. Egalitarianism is the ideal state of natural resource management, but the lack of economic efficiency considerations forces the egalitarian management approach to be ineffectively implemented. Full article
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Understanding Pro-Environmental Behavior in the US: Insights from Grid-Group Cultural Theory and Cognitive Sociology
by Gail Markle
Sustainability 2019, 11(2), 532; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020532 - 20 Jan 2019
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For almost fifty years researchers have endeavored to identify the factors that influence individuals’ performance of environmentally significant behavior, with inconsistent results. This quest has become even more urgent as newly released scientific reports provide mounting evidence of global climate change and other [...] Read more.
For almost fifty years researchers have endeavored to identify the factors that influence individuals’ performance of environmentally significant behavior, with inconsistent results. This quest has become even more urgent as newly released scientific reports provide mounting evidence of global climate change and other types of anthropogenic environmental degradation. In order to change individuals’ behavior on a large scale, it is necessary to change their habits of thinking. Using insights from Grid-group cultural theory and cognitive sociology, this mixed-methods study examined the factors that influence pro-environmental behavior among a nationally representative US sample (n = 395). Qualitative results indicate that individuals develop culturally-specific environmental socio-cognitive schemas which they use to assign meaning to the environment and guide their environmentally significant behavior. Quantitative results indicate cultural orientation, pro-environmental orientation, environment identity, and environmental influence predict pro-environmental behavior. Applying these combined theoretical perspectives to the social problem of environmental degradation could facilitate the development of targeted strategies for bringing about impactful behavioral change. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cultural Management)
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