Some people requested that I send along a condensation of what I received on international environmental attitudes. Here it is....hope it's helpful. Thanks to all who replied.
Andy
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This will be hard to come by, probably. It may be that the GSS and the National Election Survey have geocoding that goes to the county level by now, and sometimes they ask environmental questions, though the GSS ones are very poor. (See Dietz, T., Stern, P. C., & Guagnano, G. A. (1998). Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases on Environmental Concern. Environment and Behavior, 30, 450-471.) ICPSR could tell you about the geo-coding. Riley Dunlap would be the person who would know best what exists.
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You can see data about Spanish people on "Centro de Investigaciones
Sociológicas (CIS)" web which is an independent entity established to
study Spanish society, mainly through public opinion polls.
(2005 Survey)
http://www.cis.es/cis/opencm/ES/1_encuestas/estudios/ver.jsp?estudio=4516&cuestionario=4729%CE%BCestra=8783
(2004 Survey)
http://www.cis.es/cis/opencm/EN/1_encuestas/estudios/ver.jsp?estudio=3814
Also a Spanish Union has recently released a report about the
environmental concerns of employees.
Ecobarómetro Laboral CC.OO – Febrero 2008
http://www.ccoo.es/comunes/temp/recursos/1/62846.pdf
Also you can see the results of the poll conducted every year to the
people of my region (Andalusia) from 2001
Ecobarómetro Andalucia (2001-2007)
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/site/web/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3ef8185968f04010VgnVCM1000001625e50aRCRD
All documents are in Spanish Language.
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Egypt:
Hopkins, N.S., S.R. Mehanna and S. el-Haggar: 2001, People and
Pollution: Cultural Constructions and Social Action in Egypt. (The
American University in Cairo Press, Cairo).
Rice, G. "Pro-Environmental Behavior in Egypt: Is there a Role for
Islamic Environmental Ethics?" Journal of Business Ethics, 65, No. 4,
June 2006, pp 373-390.
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Value Orientations and Environmental Beliefs in Five Countries: Validity of an Instrument...
De Groot and Steg Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.2007; 38: 318-332
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Although you may have come across these already, they are what I have for international level data. This is not my area of research, so I have not reviewed these types or these documents extensively.
http://www.fni.no/YBICED/94_09_dunlap.pdf
http://eab.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/27/4/513
http://sequestration.mit.edu/pdf/GHGT8_Reiner.pdf
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Bechtel, Verdugo, & Pinheiro. (1999). Environmental belief systems: United States, Brazil & Mexico. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 30, 1, 122-128
Also, it may not be as relevent to you, but the following article compares childrens´envrionmental beliefs in Houston vs a remote Amazon village (strangely - the groups were highly similar!).
Howe et al (1996). Along the Rio Negro: Brazilian Children's Environmental Views and Values. Developmental Psychology 32, 6, 979-987
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Steger, M.A.E., Pierce, J.C., Steel, B.S. & Lovrich, N.P. 1989. Political culture, postmaterial values, and the new environmental paradigm: a comparative analysis of Canada and the United States. Political Behavior, 11(3): 233-254.
Dekker, P., Ester, P. & Nas, M. 1997. Religion, culture and environmental concern: an empirical cross-national analysis. Social Compass, 44(3): 443-458.
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I'm not certain of this, but I thought someone told me
that the GLOBE studies had a few questions or a question
on this. They're those studies that followed up on
Hofstede's culture studies.
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Andy (and others interested in this or related topics) may wish to peruse the gep-ed list archive, at:
gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu/">http://www.mail-archive.com/gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu/
It's a searchable archive, and lists entries by Thread and Date.
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Hello Prof Hoffman, these publications may assist you in your survey:
1. New Book by Dr. Liam Leonard, National University of Ireland, Galway: The Environmental Movement in Ireland http://www.springer.com/east/home/social+sciences?SGWID=5-40384-22-173764244-0 The Environmental Movement in Ireland Leonard, Liam (with a forward by John Barry). 2008, xvi, 236p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6811-9
Due: November 26, 2007 approx. 119,95 € About this book: Collective responses to Ireland's dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised economy obsessed by rapid growth and development occurred in two phases: Phase One took place between the "No Nukes" protests of the late 1970's when campaigns targeted multinational plants or infrastructural projects perceived as a pollution threat during years of economic stagnation. Phase Two occurred after economic buoyancy was achieved, as the demands of rapid growth threatened communities, the environment and Irish heritage in the face of major infrastructural projects such as roads, incinerators and gas pipelines. Starting with the Woodquay protests in Dublin, the "No Nukes" protests at Carnsore Point, the "Shell to Sea" campaign in Mayo and the campaign to save Tara from destruction, these significant ecological campaigns, based on the community's localised sense of place or rural sentiment, have formed the response to these challenges which are analysed here using social movement theories such as resource mobilisation, political opportunity, framing and event analysis. Written for: Graduate students and researchers interested in environment, sociology, political science and Irish heritage Keywords: Ireland Irish heritage environmental theory rural sentiment social movements 2. Ecopolitics Online Journal: Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2007 Now available at: http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com/index.cfm?action=journals&articlesID=138E1FC5-8024-BD42-4068149106DCF4AD Volume 1 No. 1 of the Ecopolitics Online Journal, titled: Utopias, ecotopias and green communities: Ecopolitics Online Journal Volume 1 No. 1 Winter 2007
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Yale and Columbia conducted a research project a few years ago to derive the "Environmental Sustainability Index"
The url is: http://www.yale.edu/esi/
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know this guy is doing excactly what you are looking for in the German context. But, most of is publications - at least the relevant ones - are not in English...
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Sozialwissenschaften/Soziologie/Preisendoerfer/vita/preisendoerfer.html
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Take a look at this, work done about 8-10 years ago. As I recall it was the basis for Alexandra Elnick's doctoral thesis.
http://www.greeningofindustry.org/gmgin.htm
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The EU has recently published a special Euro Barometer on Attitudes of
European citizens towards the environment. The report might be of interest
to you. It's attached.
The Euro Barometer from 2004 on the same issue can be obtained at:
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_217_en.pdf
Index of these barometers is here:
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/index_en.htm and includes also a survey
on the issue of biodiversity.
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Andrew J. Hoffman
Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
The University of Michigan
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Fax: 734.615.4323
Email: ajhoff@umich.edu
Web: http://www.andrewhoffman.net
Forthcoming: Memo to the CEO: Climate Change (Harvard Business Press)
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