抄録
A society, either local or global, can be regarded as being composed of a large number of members, who individually adopt different attitudes of beheviours towards environmental preservation and protection. It is these members themselves that cause most environmental problems and that are responsible for their solution. Sometimes, the distribution of individual attitudes is in a widely disposed multi-modal situation, and sometimes it is sharply peaked at a pro-environment point. A complex mixture of fluctuating rational as well as emotional consideration on the level of the single person finally merges into one resultant attitude, while the macrolevel individual attitudes are transferred to the macrolevel societal attitudes through interaction among the population. Such processes may turn into the collective and global change of the societal behaviour and this change is the key to the solution of some critical environmental problems as well as to the creation of better environment in the region. Therefore, it is necessary to make a static analysis of how the group consciousness will change due to internal and external interactions and how it will convert into actions. In line with such consideration, the present paper presents a general mathematical model to describe the dynamical aspects of the societal opinion and attitude formation in relation to the envionment. The model is based on the “synergetic” method which was developed by Haken and applied to sociology by Weidlich. The applicability of the model to an actual case is also discussed.
