Environmental disputes often encompass both a conflict over the practical issue itself and, more fundamentally, a conflict over environmental worldviews (EWVs). In this study, a new two-dimensional tool has been created for measuring prevailing EWVs in individuals and organizations. Respondent’s place on the horizontal axis shows preference on an institutional scale where environmental issues should be handled. Therefore, the x-axis shows the relationship between social greens (highlighting local communities) and institutionalists (believing in strong global cooperation and institutions). The vertical axis describes focus on sustainability/nature vs. market/economy, thus showing preference between bioenvironmentalists and market liberals. EWVs were measured in Finnish political parties, actors in environmental administration, many non-environmental organizations and public innovation funders. Principal component analysis showed that the two-dimensional analysis fits well to the EWV analysis. Data (n = 1637) approximates symmetrically the bell curve of a normal distribution in both the axes, with neglible linear relation between the axes. A case study of seven Finnish political parties revealed remarkable EWV differences, logically compared to the existing research. Moreover, the respondent’s views on globalization were found to follow a very different logic from the environmental concern. An analytical tool of EWVs fosters harmonious decision-making, facilitating constructive solutions in environmental debate.

环境纠纷通常既包括与实际问题本身的冲突，也包括根本上与环境世界观（EWV）的冲突。在这项研究中，已经创建了一种新的二维工具来测量个人和组织中的主要EWV。受访者在横轴上的位置在应该处理环境问题的机构规模上显示了偏爱。因此，x轴表示社会绿党（强调当地社区）和制度主义者（相信强有力的全球合作和制度）之间的关系。纵轴描述了对可持续性/自然与市场/经济的关注，因此显示了生物环境主义者和市场自由主义者之间的偏好。在芬兰各政党，环境管理参与者，许多非环境组织和公共创新资助者中对EWV进行了测量。主成分分析表明，二维分析非常适合EWV分析。数据（ñ = 1637）在两个轴上对称地近似近似正态分布的钟形曲线，两个轴之间的线性关系不明显。从逻辑上来说，与现有研究相比，对七个芬兰政党的案例研究显示出明显的EWV差异。此外，发现受访者对全球化的看法遵循了与环境问题截然不同的逻辑。EWV的分析工具可促进和谐的决策制定，为环境辩论中的建设性解决方案提供便利。