Journal ArticleDOI
The polls: pollution and its costs
Reads0
Chats0
About:
This article is published in Public Opinion Quarterly.The article was published on 1972-01-01. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pollution.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Bidding games for valuation of aesthetic environmental improvements
TL;DR: In this article, an empirical case study of the benefits of abatement of aesthetic environmental damage associated with the Four Corners power plant and Navajo mine using the bidding game technique is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
New directions in environmental sociology
TL;DR: A review of the development of environmental sociology over the past few decades can be found in this paper, where five areas of environmental sociological scholarship are discussed: (a) the "new human ecology," (b) environmental attitudes, values, and beacons, (c) the environmental movement, (d) technological risk and risk assessment, and (e) the political economy of the environment and environ-mental politics.
Journal ArticleDOI
Trends in public opinion toward environmental issues: 1965–1990
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of available longitudinal data on public opinion toward environmental issues since 1965 suggests the following conclusions regarding trends in public concern over environmental quality: (a) Environmental concern developed dramatically in the late 1960s and reached a peak with the first Earth Day in 1970; (b) such concern declined considerably in the early 1970s and then more gradually over the rest of the decade, but remained substantial; (c) the 1980s saw a significant and steady increase in both public awareness of the seriousness of environmental problems and in support for environmental protection, with the result that by the twentieth anniversary