Racial/Ethnic Group Attitudes Toward Environmental Protection in California: Is “Environmentalism” Still a White Phenomenon?
Racial/Ethnic Group Attitudes Toward Environmental Protection in California: Is “Environmentalism” Still a White Phenomenon?
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加州种族/族裔群体对环境保护的态度：“环保主义”仍然是白人现象吗？
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2005
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S. Bowler
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M. Whittaker;Gary M. Segura;S. Bowler
少数民族对环境问题的看法之一表明，少数民族选民关注的是教育、就业和犯罪等不那么深奥的问题。另一种说法是，少数群体实际上更关心污染和环境退化的源头，其中许多人居住在污染和环境退化的源头附近。这里集中在拉丁美洲人，我们认为，少数民族对环境问题的关注是内生的问题的性质，并随着时间的推移而改变。具体而言，我们认为，少数民族之间的环境意识的提高，导致拉丁美洲人变得更加敏感的环境问题比他们的白色同行随着时间的推移，但这种差异只体现在拉美人的切身利益的问题，而不是更抽象的环境原则。汇集现场民意调查在加州跨越21年的跨度，我们模型支持各种亲环境的立场之间的拉丁美洲人，非洲裔美国人和非西班牙裔白色受访者。我们发现相当多的经验支持的动态，越来越多的少数民族环境问题拉丁美洲人，但只有微弱的证据，非洲裔美国人之间的类似趋势。
One view of minority opinion on environmental issues suggests that minority voters are focused on less esoteric concerns such as education, jobs, and crime. An alternative argument is that minorities, many of whom live proximate to the sources of pollution and environmental degradation, are actually more concerned. Focusing here on Latinos, we argue that minority concern about environmental issues is endogenous to the nature of the issue and has changed over time. Specifically, we suggest that increasing environmental awareness among minorities has led Latinos to become more sensitive to environmental issues than their white counter-parts over time, but that this difference is manifest only on issues of proximate concern to Latinos and not on more abstract environmental principles. Pooling Field Polls in California across a 21-year span, we model support for various pro-environment positions among Latino, African-American, and non-Hispanic white respondents. We find considerable empirical support for the dynamics of growing minority environmental concern among Latinos, but only weak evidence for a similar trend among African-Americans.