RE: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Pam Chasek
Hi all:   For those of you who were at ISA, I raised this issue in one of the panels and a number of people questioned my comment. There is actually quite a bit of evidence that I have received from inside the evangelical environmental community. First, there was an article all about this

Re: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread stacy vandeveer
Hi all, I have been hearing various claims about religious Americans and climate change.  I am wondering what evidence there is for this.  That is, are there really any empirics? Any evidence of CHANGE in such views? --Stacy At 04:24 PM 4/13/2005 -0600, Susi Moser wrote: hi again - There is actu

Re: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Susi Moser
hi again - There is actually quite a shift going on in certain portions of the public -- the religious side, the financial/business side, even in the environmental community, broadly writ. It's an interesting change to observe. In any case, I forgot one earlier: Williams, J. L. 2001. The Ri

RE: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Wil Burns
I would also add that the CEO of Duke Energy called for a carbon tax a few days ago and criticized Bush for not doing enough about climate change. Couple this with the call by folks e.g. Frank Gaffney and Bud McFarlane to consider energy dependence a paramount security issue (though this ma

Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Steinberg
In a related vein, there has been an unexpected development in U.S. environmental politics that could potentially have a significant impact on American public opinion and U.S. policy regarding the global environment.  The country's major Christian evangelical organizations are launching a campaig

Re: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread syma ebbin
Hi Henrik, I'd recommend Environmental Values in American Culture by Willett Kempton, James Boster and Jennifer Hartley, MIT Press 1997.   Best regards, SymaHenrik Selin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I have a student who wants to write a paper on US public opinion on climate change but has a har

RE: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Wil Burns
I knew that Susi would have the mother lode of information in this context. I would just add a couple more:   A report by Thomas Brewer from Georgetown, encompassing the period of 1989-2002: http://msb.georgetown.edu/faculty/brewert/Brewer%20-%20US%20Public%20Opinion%20for%20C

Re: Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Susi Moser
Hi Henrik - The literature is vast! For long-term surveys of views check the regular Gallup Polls. At least that way you keep getting the same standard methodology and hence a more comparable perspective. MANY others have done studies, and you can easily search for them with key words like

Public opinion and climate change

2005-04-13 Thread Henrik Selin
Hello, I have a student who wants to write a paper on US public opinion on climate change but has a hard time finding material on this. There is a fair bit of material on public opinion and environmental issues in general, but these seem to be less material specifically on climate change. Does

Re: citation request

2005-04-13 Thread Ronald Mitchell
Peter, I think these are all three of the ones you want. Brown Weiss, E. (1993). "International environmental law: contemporary issues and the emergence of a new world order." Georgetown Law Journal 81(3): 675-710. Litfin, K. T. (1995). "Framing science: precautionary discourse and the ozone tr

another couple of citation questions

2005-04-13 Thread Peter M Haas
Can anyone help me on the full citations for the following?  thanks.   Edith Brown Weiss 1993 "International Environmental Law" Georgetown Law Journal   Karen Litfin 1995 "Framing Science" Millennium   Peter M. HaasProfessor and Graduate Program DirectorDepartment of Political Science216 Tho

citation request

2005-04-13 Thread Peter M Haas
For some reason I can't find the citation to the John Meyer et al piece from IO on the co-evolution of international treaties, public consciousnes, and national bureaucracies.  Can anybody please help?  thanks.   Peter M. HaasProfessor and Graduate Program DirectorDepartment of Political Sci