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

这是一项关于全球对环境问题看法的研究。1992年对24个经济和地理不同的国家的代表性成人样本进行的一项国际调查的结果将被详细分析。将进行三大类调查：1)将对个人一级的调查数据进行各种分析，以检验各国内部以及各国之间环境问题的性质和来源的模型；2)上述分析的结果将用于为每个国家创建总体层面的公众看法措施，并将这些措施与这些国家的经济、社会、政治和环境特征的现有数据相结合，以便在国家和区域层面进行总体层面的模型测试；3)国家层面特征和个人层面感知之间的潜在联系将使用各种上下文分析技术进行调查。在所有这些分析中，将特别注意对全球变化的认识如何与对各种环境现象的认识相互关联。除了提供有关公众对全球环境变化看法的前所未有的信息，这将对研究和决策社区有价值之外，本研究还提供了一个机会来测试一般理论，并扩展现有的关于环境意识和关注的性质和来源的社会科学研究。＊*＊

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. ***