David Yencken
Biographic Data
| ID | 6470163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Yencken |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Yencken |
| SIGNATURE | YENCKEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arthur Ferdinand Yencken: A British diplomat in wartime Spain
During the Second World War, the maintenance of Spanish neutrality was of great strategic importance to the British Government and its Allies. The British Embassy in Madrid therefore had a role of crucial significance. This article describes the part played by Arthur Yencken, deputy to Ambassador Hoare, who served in Spain from 24 April 1939 until his death on 18 May 1944. In uncovering Yencken’s contributions to the war effort, the article offer…
Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific: Local Traditions and Global Discourses
Preface Rupert Maclean, UNESCO Office for Asia and the Pacific Introduction David Yencken, John Fien and Helen Sykes 1. Attitudes to nature in the East and West David Yencken 2. The research David Yencken, John Fien and Helen Sykes 3. One country two perspectives: South China Philip Stimpson 4. Oya-Shima-Kuni: Japan Brendan Barrett, Osamu Abe, Eiichiro Harako and Satoshi Ichikawa 5. Living traditions: India M.J. Ravindranath and Usha Iyer-Raniga …
Governance for Sustainability
Environmental policies and responses are strongly influenced by a government’s knowledge and understanding of environmental problems, its assessment of their severity, the expert opinions available to it on the size of the response needed, its understanding of the driving forces leading to environmental deterioration and the influence of prevailing theories and paradigms. Environmental policy cannot furthermore exist in a policy vacuum. Environme…
If It Doesn't Directly Affect You, You Don't Think About It’: A qualitative study of young people's environmental attitudes in two Australian cities
This article presents a range of findbigs from a qualitative study of the environmental attitudes of young people across their final 2 years of secondary school in the two Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane. Focus groups comprising the same 16‐ to 17‐year‐old students in 12 schools were interviewed twice, 12 months apart. Several minor differences were found in the attitudes of students between the two cities, but these pale alongside th…
If It Doesn't Directly Affect You, You Don't Think About It’: A qualitative study of young people's environmental attitudes in two Australian cities
This article presents a range of findbigs from a qualitative study of the environmental attitudes of young people across their final 2 years of secondary school in the two Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane. Focus groups comprising the same 16‐ to 17‐year‐old students in 12 schools were interviewed twice, 12 months apart. Several minor differences were found in the attitudes of students between the two cities, but these pale alongside th…
Governance for Sustainability
Environmental policies and responses are strongly influenced by a government’s knowledge and understanding of environmental problems, its assessment of their severity, the expert opinions available to it on the size of the response needed, its understanding of the driving forces leading to environmental deterioration and the influence of prevailing theories and paradigms. Environmental policy cannot furthermore exist in a policy vacuum. Environme…
If It Doesn't Directly Affect You, You Don't Think About It’: A qualitative study of young people's environmental attitudes in two Australian cities
This article presents a range of findbigs from a qualitative study of the environmental attitudes of young people across their final 2 years of secondary school in the two Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane. Focus groups comprising the same 16‐ to 17‐year‐old students in 12 schools were interviewed twice, 12 months apart. Several minor differences were found in the attitudes of students between the two cities, but these pale alongside th…
Governance for Sustainability
Environmental policies and responses are strongly influenced by a government’s knowledge and understanding of environmental problems, its assessment of their severity, the expert opinions available to it on the size of the response needed, its understanding of the driving forces leading to environmental deterioration and the influence of prevailing theories and paradigms. Environmental policy cannot furthermore exist in a policy vacuum. Environme…
Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific: Local Traditions and Global Discourses
Preface Rupert Maclean, UNESCO Office for Asia and the Pacific Introduction David Yencken, John Fien and Helen Sykes 1. Attitudes to nature in the East and West David Yencken 2. The research David Yencken, John Fien and Helen Sykes 3. One country two perspectives: South China Philip Stimpson 4. Oya-Shima-Kuni: Japan Brendan Barrett, Osamu Abe, Eiichiro Harako and Satoshi Ichikawa 5. Living traditions: India M.J. Ravindranath and Usha Iyer-Raniga …
Arthur Ferdinand Yencken: A British diplomat in wartime Spain
During the Second World War, the maintenance of Spanish neutrality was of great strategic importance to the British Government and its Allies. The British Embassy in Madrid therefore had a role of crucial significance. This article describes the part played by Arthur Yencken, deputy to Ambassador Hoare, who served in Spain from 24 April 1939 until his death on 18 May 1944. In uncovering Yencken’s contributions to the war effort, the article offer…
Political science (4 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works)