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Peter Ester, Henk Vinken, Solange Simões, Midori Aoyagi-Usui (eds.) Culture and sustainability A cross-national study of cultural diversity and environmental priorities among mass public and decision makers |
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Environmental concerns and support for environmental protection are widely shared by publics and elites in both richer and poorer societies, Culture and Sustainability shows. Reporting on the Global Environmental Survey (GOES), held in a variety of advanced and developing countries, Culture and Sustainability examines the cultural roots of concerns of general publics and decision makers about immediate and long-term global environmental problems. It has become clear that the public is aware of environmental threats and is convinced they can help to resolve these threats. Environmental elites in richer and in poorer countries underestimate the public’s readiness to act. Culture and Sustainability demonstrates that national and international environmental policy-making can build on a sensitive and active citizenry, when only it aims to understand the citizen’s deep-rooted motivations. Culture and Sustainability clarifies the impact of these motivations. It shows that culture matters in environmental policy-making. The Global Environmental Survey has been conducted in Brazil, Bangkok, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Manila, and the Netherlands. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Acknowledgments Foreword Section 1 Chapter 1: GOES: The Global Environmental Survey –Peter Ester, Henk Vinken, Solange Simões, and Midori Aoyagi-Usui Chapter 2: GOES Sampling Procedures, Data Collections, and Measurement Instruments –Henk Vinken and Midori Aoyagi-Usui Section 2 Chapter 3: Sustainable Development and the Attitudes, Values, and Behaviors of Dutch Citizens –Peter Ester and Henk Vinken Chapter 4: Germans to the Green Front—By Car, Naturally –Peter Ph. Mohler and Janet A. Harkness Chapter 5: New Images of Old Concepts: Environmental Values and Behaviors of the Japanese Public –Midori Aoyagi-Usui and Henk Vinken Chapter 6: Awareness and Attitudes toward Environmental Changes: Rural-Urban Differentials in China –Rong Ma Chapter 7: Beyond the Rain Forest: Environmental Attitudes and Behavior among Brazilians –Solange Simões and Daniel Joseph Hogan Section 3 Chapter 8: Environmental Elite Perceptions of Mass Attitudes Towards Sustainable Development: The Case of the Netherlands –Peter Ester and Henk Vinken Chapter 9: Perceptions of Sustainable Development and Climate Change among Canadian Decision Makers –Jean-Guy Vaillancourt and Bertrand Perron Chapter 10: Japanese Environmental Decision Makers and Their Understanding of Citizens’ Environmental Attitudes and Policy Preferences –Midori Aoyagi-Usui and Peter Ester Chapter 11: Economic Growth Versus Environment Protection: Perceptions of Chinese Urban Elites –Mingming Shen Chapter 12: The Brazilian Sustainability Challenge: Combining the Environment, Modernization and Inequality Reduction –Solange Simões and Eduardo Viola Section 4 Chapter 13: Decision Makers’ Perceptions of International Policy-Making on Global Change –Solange Simões and Eduardo Viola Chapter 14: Framing Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development: Some Cross-Cultural Conclusions from the GOES Study –Peter Ester, Solange Simões, Henk Vinken, and Midori Aoyagi-Usui Postscript References Tables (chapters 2-13) Appendix Tables (chapters 2, 3, and 5) Publication date: November 2003 Bestel/Order |
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