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Shades of Green: Public Opinion on Environmental Issues in Australia
Citation
Crook, SA and Pakulski, J, Shades of Green: Public Opinion on Environmental Issues in Australia, Australian Journal of Political Science, 30, (1) pp. 39-55. ISSN 1036-1146 (1995) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1080/00323269508402322
Abstract
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
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Crook, SA (Dr Stephen Anthony Crook) |
UTAS Author: | Pakulski, J (Professor Jan Pakulski) |
ID Code: | 3954 |
Year Published: | 1995 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 33 |
Deposited By: | Sociology |
Deposited On: | 1995-08-01 |
Last Modified: | 2011-08-22 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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