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Robert Emmet Jones
Researcher at University of Tennessee
Publications - 28
Citations - 6495
Robert Emmet Jones is an academic researcher from University of Tennessee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rural area & General Social Survey. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications receiving 5797 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Emmet Jones include Washington State University.
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New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale
TL;DR: The New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP) as mentioned in this paper is an improved version of the original NEP Scale, which has been used widely for measuring pro-environmental orientation.
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The Social Bases of Environmental Concern: Have They Changed Over Time?1
TL;DR: This article found that younger adults, the well-educated, political liberals, Democrats, those raised and currently living in urban areas, and those employed outside of primary industries were consistently more supportive of environmental protection than were their respective counterparts.
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Green migration into rural America: The new frontier of environmentalism?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that shifts in rural population and economic growth patterns may help explain rising levels of support for environmental values in many rural areas in particular, and assesses a model of "green migration" that assumes that domestic in-migration, with its impacts on the character and composition of rural communities, is one of the reasons environmental values may be gaining support in rural America.
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Criminal Behavior and Rapid Community Growth: Examining the Evidence1
TL;DR: The authors found that increases in criminal behaviors are significantly more than proportional to increases in populations in rapid-growth communities, and that simple regression equations explain 85 to 98 percent of the variance.