Abstract

As part of a larger research effort, the empirical basis for this note is responses to four out of many questions in a mailed survey, which primarily focused on national environmental objectives in Sweden. The results show that out of eight broad areas for use of tax money, five - including environment - are rated as important by over 90% of the respondents. Respondents appear to be less willing to discriminate between different issues covered by national environmental objectives, as all of these are rated as important by more than 80% of the respondents. The function of the ozone layer is an example of an environmental issue where the knowledge among people is relatively high, while this is not the case when it comes to the amount of pesticides used in agriculture. The results also show less support for actions at the individual level to improve the environment, as compared to support for actions taken by society at large through, e.g., technological improvement or policy intervention. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

environment; knowledge; attitudes

Published in

Journal of Environmental Management
2008, Volume: 86, number: 3, pages: 575-579
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

SLU Authors

• Boman, Mattias

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Mattsson, Leif

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Fish and Aquacultural Science
Forest Science
Landscape Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.12.041

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/16178