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Shades of Green: Public Opinion on Environmental Issues in Australia

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posted on 2023-05-16, 09:40 authored by Crook, SA, Jan PakulskiJan Pakulski
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 Science

Volume

30

Pagination

39-55

ISSN

1036-1146

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Australia

Repository Status

  • Restricted

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Other environmental management not elsewhere classified

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