Changing relations in global environmental change
Changing relations in global environmental change
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全球环境变化中不断变化的关系
DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.05.001
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
D. Uzzell
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作者：
N. Räthzel;D. Uzzell
我们讨论了一个跨国试点研究在瑞典和英国检查年轻人的环境问题和他们的看法的原因和解决方案。研究表明，对环境退化原因的评价部分取决于提出问题的方式，导致对调查结果的不同解释。此外，英国和瑞典样本之间的态度也有很大的不同：在英国，环境退化被认为是更严重的，但在回答预先制定的问题时，也更远离受访者的日常经验。环境退化的原因一方面在于各国政府和促进经济增长的工业政策。另一方面，受访者将新兴经济体遥远的发展视为问题，而没有将他们的当地经验与他们所描述的全球影响联系起来。在调查的开放部分，个人行为被视为环境退化的最重要原因。但是，尽管英国受访者将个人描述为自私、懒惰和消费主义者，瑞典受访者也强调西方生活方式和市场社会等结构性原因。我们对这些差异提出了可能的解释，并讨论了全球和本地之间的关系，以及从结果中出现的个人主义和威权主义的关系。
We discuss a cross-national pilot study in Sweden and the UK examining young people's environmental concerns and their perceptions of the causes and solutions. The study demonstrates that evaluations of the causes of environmental degradation are partly contingent upon the manner in which questions are framed leading to quite different interpretations of the findings. Moreover, attitudes also differ significantly between the British and the Swedish sample: in the UK environmental degradation is seen as more serious but also more distant from the respondents’ everyday experiences when answering pre-formulated questions. The causes of environmental degradation are located in both countries in government and industry policies promoting economic growth on the one hand. On the other, respondents identify distant developments in emerging economies as problems, without connecting their local experiences to the global effects they describe. In the open-ended part of the survey, individual behaviour is seen as the most important cause of environmental degradation. But while British respondents describe individuals as selfish, lazy and consumerist, Swedish respondents emphasise also structural causes like Western lifestyles and the market society. We present possible explanations for these differences and discuss the relationships between the global and the local in relation to constructions of the Other as well as the relationship of individualism and authoritarianism that emerge from the results.