How cultural practices are powerful tools to protect the environment?
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Explanation:
Cultural values influence a myriad of topics—education, wealth distribution, government oversight—but the extent to which these values influence environmental attitudes is not well documented. Data from a 2013 study by economists George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies evaluates just such an influence in the relationship between major cultural dimensions and ecologic efficiency. During the last ten years, efforts to quantify a country’s environmental performance have been conducted through Environmental Performance Indexes (EPIs)—formally recognized “scorecards” developed in response to the Millennium Development Goals and used to rank a country’s environmental policies in different categories based on outcome-oriented indicators.