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WHO BELIEVES TO WHOM AND WHY IN ECOLOGY.Analysis of Information Sources and Actors
Benjamin Čulig
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Sažetak
Two ecological segments appear to be the subject of the analysis: one being the evaluation of importance of particular sources of information and the other referring to the expression of confidence to various actors (subjects) of information.
The testing has been made on two occasions in the period of 4 years (in 1988 and in 1992) on a representative random sample of student population of two Universities in Croatia.
Methodologically speaking on both occasions we have been examining the possibility of the existence of statistically significant canonical relation between the latent dimensions obtained by component analysis. Standard multi variant procedures have been used. The results have shown the existence of one statistically important canonical relation expressed by the following: the examined persons who are allowing for the importance of the scientific literature of ecological provenance, of the knowledge obtained by the profession and are understanding the seriousness of the ecologic disaster, are far more inclined to express confidence to the scientists and environmental associations as they are informing them about the problems.
The issues are: a) the media are not believed though importance is attributed to them, b) the student population is not taking a sensationalist view of the ecological disasters - it is viewing them as serious problems to be scientifically analyzed, c) believing the scientists the examined persons distrust the politicians proposing environmental programs even when devised by the expert members.
To conclude: the explained variance of examined areas is relatively small (14%) leading to the conclusion that both or one examined segment are better explained by other subjects.
Ključne riječi
sources of environmental information; actors (subjects) of environmental information
Hrčak ID:
138838
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.10.1992.
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