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Title: | Initial Impressions on the Role of the Performing and Visual Arts in Influencing Environmental Behaviour | Contributor(s): | Curtis, David (author) | Publication Date: | 2003 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4623 | Abstract: | Australia faces several major ecological and environmental challenges that will require the engagement of the whole of society if they are to be reversed. Existing programs from the government, non-government and private sectors are failing to make significant inroads into many of the more intractable challenges such as soil salinity, urban sprawl, the greenhouse effect, declining water quality, and the loss of biodiversity. New methods are required. This paper suggests that the visual and performing arts may be useful in affecting environmental behaviour at the individual, community and societal level by helping to increase understanding and knowledge, aiding communication, enabling more people to be engaged, provoking changes in people, affirming beliefs, evoking an emotional response, and providing a spiritual dimension that helps connect people more with the natural environment. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | TASA 2003: Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, University of New England, Armidale, 4th December - 6th December, 2003 | Source of Publication: | Proceedings of The Australian Sociological Association 2003 Annual Conference (TASA 2003): New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, p. 1-11 | Publisher: | University of New England | Place of Publication: | Armidale, Australia | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 050299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950199 Arts and Leisure not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | E4 Editorship of Scholarly Conference Proceedings | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19395756 http://www.tasa.org.au/ |
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