Green European: Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes in Europe in a Historical and Cross-Cultural Comparative Perspective

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Audrone Telesiene, Matthias Gross
Routledge, 1 juil. 2016 - 282 pages

Green European addresses the quest for a better understanding of European type(s) of environmentalism. This monograph focuses on public attitudes and behaviours and the culturally rooted as well as country specific differences. The book addresses the wider issue that many European countries are rendered ‘green’ or as having an advanced environmental awareness, but the question - ‘how green are Green Europeans really’, is yet to be answered.

The book covers a variety of unique data-driven comparative studies and is divided into three parts:

  • the first addresses perceptions of environmental and technological threats and risks,
  • the second part deals with environmental activism in Europe,
  • the third discusses environmental attitudes, environmental concerns and their imminent link to personal pro-environmental behaviour.

The empirical comparative nature of the contributions is enabled by data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP).

 

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how green are Green Europeans?
1
Reconsidering environmental threats and risks
11
The perception of environmental threats in a global and European perspective
13
Vulnerable and insecure? Environmental and technological risk perception in Europe
31
Changing concern about environmental threats and risks a longitudinal and multilevel perspective on the relationship between values and interests
56
Personal activist profiles in Europe
89
Explaining environmental activism by national cultures the hypothesis of hysteresis
91
Explaining membership in proenvironmental groups a comparative European perspective
111
Petitioner contributor protester the profile of Europeans performing different publicsphere proenvironmental behaviours
133
Exploring European green mindsets and behaviours
155
How far for the money? Affluence and democratic degrowth potential in Europe
157
Environmental concern in crossnational comparison methodological threats and measurement equivalence
182
Youth environmental consciousness in Europe the influence of psychosocial factors on proenvironmental behaviour
205
Dilemmas of sustainability in turbulent times the Portuguese case in context
221
Index
243
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Audrone Telesiene is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. She is member of the national team implementing the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in Lithuania. Her research interests include environmental sociology, sociology of science and technology, risk communication, social change and social analytics.

Matthias Gross is Professor of Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, in Leipzig, and the University of Jena, Germany. His recent research focuses on public perceptions of renewable energy, ignorance and security, real-world experiments, and the changing role of civil society in environmental policy.

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