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Shades of Green: Public Opinion on Environmental Issues in Australia
Data from the 1990 and 1993 Australian Electoral Studies are used to investigate whether public concern about the environment has declined in Australia over recent years. Questions of the ranking and structure of environmental concerns and of levels of support for environmental organisations are addressed. The data show that public concern about the environment remains high on an ‘agenda of long-term issues’, that environmental concerns form two distinct clusters (termed ‘brown’ and 4 green’) and that active support for environmental organisations correlates only with the green cluster. It is argued that these findings give no more than partial support to the ‘organisational’, ‘postmaterialist’ and ‘risk society’ perspectives on environmental issues. © AusJPS 1995
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Publication title
Australian Journal of Political ScienceVolume
30Pagination
39-55ISSN
1036-1146Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
AustraliaRepository Status
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