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Socio-spatial Determinants of Attitudes Towards Nature

Antun Šundalić orcid.org/0000-0001-9261-834X ; The Faculty of Economics, Osijek, Croatia
Željko Pavić ; The Faculty of Economics, Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

The purpose of the empirical survey research (N=608, cluster sample, Slavonia and Baranja area) presented in this article was to establish whether the place of living (village-town) implies different attitudes towards local (air pollution, water pollution...) and global environmental problems (global warming, environmental disasters...), i.e. whether rural and urban population differ in their attitudes towards human influence on nature and the ways of resolving the ecological crisis. The results show that rural and town inhabitants are equally concerned about global environmental problems but rural inhabitants are less concerned about local environmental problems than town inhabitants; they are also less
critical of human influence on nature and less radical in their belief that something should change in the way of life or attitude towards nature. These findings could be explained by higher intensity of environmental problems in towns, as well as less frequent exposure
to environmental ideas, movements and information in rural areas. Although differences between urban and rural inhabitants remain even when sociodemographic variables are controlled (gender, age, education, income), a relatively low degree of explained variance
indicates that the place of living has little impact on environmental attitudes measured in this research.

Keywords

village; town; environmental attitudes; environmental problems; rural culture; modern society

Hrčak ID:

31817

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31817

Publication date:

2.2.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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