Beyond Dichotomies: Understanding Proenvironmental Behaviour in Turkey
Summary: The main objective of this project is to examine various characteristics and attributes that hinder or promote proenvironmental behaviour in Turkey. We aim to answer one key question: What affective, religious, psychological, and ecological perceptions influence environment-related values and practices in Turkey? We will conduct surveys with individuals having diverse demographic and socio-economic profiles. We will draw on, in part, a novel survey instrument that has been developed by Taylor, Wright, and LaVasseur (2020), combined with an additional and novel survey scale focusing on the world’s most prevalent religious perceptions and beliefs. To answer our research question, we will reconsider our hypotheses in the non-western, predominantly Muslim, context. This project comes to address two gaps in our knowledge. First, the role that non-western religious, non-religious, and hybrid identities play in the way people respond to environmental challenges. Second, the vast majority of research on Islam and the environment has