The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale, which issometimes referred to as the revised NEP, is a surveybased metric devised by the US environmental sociologist Riley Dunlap and colleagues. It is designed to
measure the environmental concern of groups of people
using a survey instrument constructed of fi fteen statements. Respondents are asked to indicate the strength of
their agreement or disagreement with each statement.
Responses to these fi fteen statements are then used to
construct various statistical measures of environmental
concern. T e NEP scale is considered a measure of environmental world view or paradigm (framework of
thought).