Additional Reading

Baldassare, Mark and Cheryl Katz. 1992. The personal threat of environmental problems as predictor of environmental practices. Environment and Behavior 24:602-16.

Blocker, T. Jean, and Douglas Lee Eckberg. 1989. Environmental issues as women’s issues - general concerns and local hazards. Social Science Quarterly 70:586-93.

Bord, Richard J., Ann Fisher, and Robert E. O’Connor. 1998. Public perceptions of global warming: United States and international perspectives. Climate Research 11:75-84.

Bord, Richard J., and Robert E. O'Connor. 1997. The gender gap in environmental attitudes: The case of perceived vulnerability to risk. Social Science Quarterly 78:830-40.

Brechin, Steven R. 2003. Comparative public opinion and knowledge on global climatic change and the Kyoto Protocol: The U.S. versus the world? International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 23:106-134.

Brechin, Steven R., and Willett Kempton. 1994. Global environmentalism: A challenge to the postmaterialism thesis? Social Science Quarterly 75:245-69.

Dunlap, Riley E. 1998. Lay perceptions of global risk—Public views of global warming in cross-national context. International Sociology 13:473-98.

Dunlap, Riley E., and Rik Scarce. 1991. Poll trends: Environmental problems and protection. Public Opinion Quarterly 55: 651-72.

Elliott, Euel, James L. Regens, and Barry J. Seldon. 1995. Exploring variation in public support for environmental protection. Social Science Quarterly 76:41-52.

Greenberg, Michael. R. 2004. Is public support for environmental protection decreasing? An analysis of U.S. and New Jersey data. Environmental Health Perspectives 112:121-25.

Hershey, Marjorie. R., and David B. Hill. 1978. Is pollution a “white thing”? Racial differences in preadults’ attitudes. Public Opinion Quarterly 41:439-58.

Inglehart, Ronald. 1971. The silent revolution in Europe: Intergenerational change in post-industrial societies. American Political Science Review 65:991-1017.

Jones, Robert Emmet. 1998. Black concern for the environment: Myth versus reality. Society & Natural Resources 11:209-28.

Jones, Robert Emmet and Lewis F. Carter. 1994. Concern for the environment among black Americans: An assessment of common assumptions. Social Science Quarterly 75:560-79.

Kempton, Willet. 1991. Lay perspectives on global climate change. Global Environmental Change 1:183-208.

———. 1993. Will public environmental concern lead to action on global warming? Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 18:217-45.

———. 1997. How the public views climate change. Environment 39:12-21.

Krosnick, Jon A., Allyson L. Holbrook, Laura Lowe, and Penny S. Visser. 2006. The origins and consequences of democratic citizens’ policy agendas: A study of popular concern about global warming. Climatic Change 77: 7-43.

Leiserowitz, Anthony. 2006. Climate change risk perception and policy preferences: The role of affect, imagery, and values. Climatic Change 77:45-72.

Lorenzoni, Irene, and Nick F. Pidgeon. 2006. Public views on climate change: European and USA perspectives. Climatic Change 77:73-95.

Mohai, Paul, and Bunyan Bryant. 1998. Is there a “race” effect on concern for environmental quality? Public Opinion Quarterly 62:475-505.

O'Connor, Robert E., Richard J. Bord, and Ann Fisher. 1998. Rating threat mitigators: Faith in experts, governments, and individuals themselves to create a safer world. Risk Analysis 18:547-56.

———. 1999. Risk perceptions, general environmental beliefs, and willingness to address climate change. Risk Analysis 19:461-71.

O’Connor, Robert E., Richard J. Bord, Brent Yarnal, and Nancy Wiefek. 2002. Who wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Social Science Quarterly 83:1-17.

Office of the Governor. 2006. Fact sheet: Governor pushes for federal and congressional action on global warming, levee repairs, April 11.

Shapiro, Robert Y., and Harpreet Mahajan. 1986. Gender differences in policy preferences: a summary of trends from the 1960s to the 1980s. Public Opinion Quarterly 50:42-61.

Somma, Mark, and Sue Tolleson-Rinehart. 1997. Tracking the elusive green woman: Sex, environmentalism, and feminism in the United States and Europe. Political Research Quarterly 50:153-69.

Sterman, John D., and Linda Booth Sweeney. 2007. Understanding public complacency about climate change: Adults’ mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter. Climatic Change 80:213-38.

Tarrant, Michael A., and H. Ken Cordell. 1997. The effect of respondent characteristics on general environmental attitude-behavior correspondence. Environment and Behavior 29:618-38.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2007. California State Motor Vehicle Pollution Standards; Request for Waiver of Federal Preemption; Opportunity for Public Hearing. http://www.epa.gov/otaq/url-fr/fr24ap07.pdf

Uyeki, Eugene S., and Lani J. Holland. 2000. Diffusion of Pro-Environment Attitudes? American Behavioral Scientist 43:646-62.

Van Liere, Kent D., and Riley E. Dunlap. 1980. The social bases of environmental concern: A review of hypotheses, explanations and empirical evidence. Public Opinion Quarterly 44:181-97.

Walters, Dan. 2006. Greenhouse gas bill helps Schwarzenegger to triangulate voters. Sacramento Bee, September 27.

Whittaker, Matthew, Gary M. Segura, and Shaun Bowler. 2005. Racial/ethnic group attitudes toward environmental protection in California: Is “environmentalism’” still a white phenomenon? Political Research Quarterly 58:435-47.

Zahran, Sammy, Samuel D. Brody, Himanshu Grover, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2006. Climate change vulnerability and policy support. Society & Natural Resources 19:771-89.