1994 · 58 citations · 3 references
Public AffairsEnvironmental PolicyEnvironmental AttitudesEnvironmental GovernanceSustainable DevelopmentEnvironmental Policy SupportEnvironmental ProtectionEnvironmental ResponsibilitySustainability AttitudesSustainable Development GovernanceAttitudes Toward Environmental Protection PoliciesAttitudes Toward Environmental ResponsibilityAttitudes Toward Sustainable DevelopmentInternational Enforcement AssistanceInternational Enforcement PrioritiesInternational Environmental CooperationPro-environmental Policy AttitudesPublic Opinion On Environmental Policy
Conventional wisdom holds that concern for the environment is limited to residents of the wealthy industrialized nations of the Northern hemisphere, as those who live in the poorer, Southern nations are assumed to be too preoccupied with economic survival to be able to worry about environmental quality.1 This may have been true back in 1972, when the UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, but it seems implausible in the current era of world-wide activism on behalf of the environment.2 Yet, it may be that residents of the industrialized nations remain more concerned about environmental problems than do those of the less economically developed nations. Conventional wisdom also holds that the perceptions of the roots of the global environmental problematique, and of how it ought to be mitigated, differ dramatically between residents of the economically advanced nations and those of the poorer nations.3 These differences were certainly apparent at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment
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