The Social Bases of Environmental Concern: A Review of Hypotheses, Explanations and Empirical Evidence

Liere, Kent D. Van; Dunlap, Riley E.

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“…Recent reviews also show that females have more proenvironment attitudes than males (Kalof et al, 2002), with a few inconsistent results (Scott & Willits, 1994). In most other studies, pro-environment attitudes are negatively correlated with age and are positively correlated with education (Arcury, 1990;Scott & Willits, 1994;Van Liere & Dunlap, 1980), but a few studies show no correlation with education (Uysal et al, 1994), as was found here.…”

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A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

Hvenegaard

2007

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Educat

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Universities often lack a detailed understanding of the environmental backgrounds of their students. One way to improve understanding is through segmentation, which breaks down a population into groups of people with similar characteristics. This study aims to use segmentation to determine groups within the student population, based on environmental attitudes, and compare these groups in terms of environmental knowledge, activities, information sources and demographic characteristics. This study of undergraduate students identified six groups, with varying levels of support for the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP). Factor scores varied among groups with similar NEP scores. Student groups with high NEP scores used more information sources, participated in more environment-friendly activities and were more likely to be female than those with low scores. Environmental knowledge using four indicators was not significantly correlated to attitude groups. The most used information sources were from various electronic and print media.

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A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

Hvenegaard

2007

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Educat

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“…One definition which includes all components discussed so far is provided by van Liere and Dunlap (1980). The authors define environmental concern as 'perceiving environmental problems as serious, supporting efforts by government to protect environmental quality' and as 'engaging in behaviors aimed at improving environmental quality' (van Liere and Dunlap, 1980: 188).…”

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“…Source: Own illustration based on van Liere and Dunlap (1980). ddOne important issue is the exclusion of knowledge as a cognitive attribute of the concept definition.…”

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No Measure without Concept. A Critical Review on the Conceptualization and Measurement of Environmental Concern

Schaffrin

2011

International Review of Social Research

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Environmental concern is a highly relevant concept in the context of environmental change and increasing demand for political regulation of environmental protection. In order to prevent climate change, loss in global biodiversity or other highly critical environmental issues, we need to understand why (and why not) citizens support environmental politics. However, there is no measure without a concept, and empirical results might be biased if they are not operationalized according to well defined (theoretical and methodological) criteria. This research endeavor focuses on historical and more recent developments of the concept of individual environmental concern. It will be demonstrated that environmental concern is not only a distinct concept excluding behavior and knowledge, but is also rather complex addressing geographical as well as temporal issues. Most recent developments suggesting a hierarchical multi-dimensional character will be discussed and examples of the most relevant empirical measures and scales will be evaluated.

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“…Theory also suggests that environmental goods are normal goods, with positive income elasticities [Kahn, 1997;Van Liere, 1980]. As incomes and wealth have increased over the century, we expect to see growing support for environmental goods.…”

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A Century of Environmental Legislation

Cain¹,

Kaiser²

2016

Research in Economic History

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. All rights reserved. No part of this WORKING PAPER may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of IME except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Terms of use: Documents in 1 A Century of Environmental LegislationLouis P. Cain * Brooks A. Kaiser † AbstractWe find three intertwined ambitions that drove federal legislation over wildlife and biodiversity at the beginning of the 20 th Century: establishment of multiple-use federal lands, the economic development of natural resources, and the maintenance of option values. We examine this federal intervention in natural resource use by analyzing roll-call votes over the past century. These votes involved decisions regarding public land that reallocated the returns to users by changing the asset's physical character or its usage rights. We suggest that long term consequences affecting current resource allocations arose from disparities between broadly dispersed benefits and locally concentrated socio-economic and geophysical (spatial) costs. We show that a primary intent of public land management has become to preserve multiple-use option values and identify important factors in computing those option values. We do this by demonstrating how the willingness to forego current benefits for future ones depends on the community's resource endowments. These endowments are defined not only in terms of users' current wealth accumulation but also from their expected ability to extract utility from natural resources over time.JEL Codes: N51, N52; Q28; Q23, Q24

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The Social Bases of Environmental Concern: A Review of Hypotheses, Explanations and Empirical Evidence

Cited by 1,295 publications

References 14 publications

A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

No Measure without Concept. A Critical Review on the Conceptualization and Measurement of Environmental Concern

A Century of Environmental Legislation

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