Global Perceptions of Environmental Problems: Analysis of Results from a 24-Nation Survey

9321901邓拉普这是一项关于全球对环境问题的看法的研究。1992年，对24个经济和地理上不同的国家的成年人代表性样本进行了国际调查，并对调查结果进行了详细分析。将进行三大类调查：（1）将对个人调查数据进行各种分析，以检验国家内部和国家之间环境问题的性质和来源的模式; 2）上述分析的结果将用于建立每个国家公众看法的综合衡量标准，这些标准将与现有的经济、社会、这些国家的政治和环境特点，以便在国家和区域一级进行综合模型测试; 3）将使用各种背景分析技术调查国家一级的特点和个人一级的看法之间的潜在联系。在所有这些分析中，将特别注意对全球变化的看法如何与对广泛的环境现象的看法相互关联。除了提供前所未有的信息，公众对全球环境变化的看法，这将是有价值的研究和决策社区，这项研究提供了一个机会，以测试一般理论和扩展现有的社会科学研究的性质和来源的环境意识和关注。***

9321901 Dunlap This is a study of global perceptions of environmental problems. Results from a 1992 international survey of representative samples of adults in 24 economically and geographically diverse nations will be analyzed in detail. Three broad types of investigation will be conducted: 1) Various analyses of individual-level survey data will be conducted to test models of the nature and sources of environmental concern within nations, as well as across nations; 2) Results from the foregoing analyses will be used to create aggregate-level measures of public perceptions for each nation, and these will be combined with existing data on the economic, social, political and environmental characteristics of these same nations to allow aggregate-level model testing at the national and regional levels; 3) Potential links between national-level characteristics and individual-level perceptions will be investigated using a variety of contextual analysis techniques. In all of these analyses, special attention will be paid to how perceptions of global change are interrelated with perceptions of a wide range of environmental phenomena. %%% In addition to providing unprecedented information on public perceptions related to global environmental change that will be of value to research and policy-making communities, this study offers an opportunity to test general theories and extend existing social science research on the nature and sources of environmental awareness and concern. ***