The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982-2019
The Changing Prioritization of Environmental Protection in Britain: 1982-2019
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英国环境保护优先事项的变化：1982-2019
DOI：
10.1017/gov.2022.17
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Kenny J
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作者：
Kenny J
本文探讨了在英国的环境保护的优先级在一段四十年的长期趋势的演变。它通过汇编可比较的问题来做到这一点，这些问题从一系列来源，包括最近才向研究界提供的历史民意调查数据，挖掘相同的基本环境层面。在总体层面上，优先顺序在很大程度上跟踪不断变化的经济状况以及关键环境事件，2019年冬季显示出最高的记录水平。此外，个人优先考虑环境的意愿趋势可能并不总是与环境显著性趋势一致。在个人层面上，教育程度是唯一持续显著的人口相关性。然而，有证据表明，环境问题日益政治化，近年来，随着精英阶层在这一问题上的分歧不断扩大，左右取向只是成为环境优先事项的一个重要相关因素。
This article examines the evolution of long-term trends in the prioritization of environmental protection in Britain over a period of four decades. It does so by compiling comparable questions tapping into the same underlying environmental dimension from a range of sources, including historical polling data that has only recently been made available to the research community. At the aggregate level, prioritization largely tracks changing economic conditions as well as key environmental events, with the winter of 2019 showing the highest recorded levels. Furthermore, trends in individuals' willingness to prioritize the environment may not always go in tandem with trends in environmental salience. At the individual level, educational attainment is the only consistently significant demographic correlate over time. However, there is evidence of increasing politicization of the environment, with left–right orientations only becoming an important correlate of environmental prioritization in recent years, in line with rising divergence on the issue at the elite level.