Public Opinion
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Do You Believe the Climate Is Changing? Answers From New Survey Research This brief explores how political views influence Americans’ understanding and perception of science. The research is based on a national version of the Community and Environment in Rural America survey called NCERA, and on New Hampshire’s statewide Granite State… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, Environment, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Jobs, Natural Resources, and Community Resilience: A Survey of Southeast Alaskans about Social and Environmental Change As part of the Community and Environment in Rural America (CERA) project, researchers at the Carsey Institute surveyed 1,541 residents of the ten boroughs and unincorporated census areas in Southeast Alaska to better understand social and environmental change in the… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Economic Development, Environment, Public Opinion |
| Southeastern Kentuckians Remain Optimistic Through Great Recession: Growing Concerns about Sprawl, Housing, and Recreational Opportunities In May and June of 2007, Carsey Institute researchers surveyed 1,000 randomly selected respondents from Kentucky’s Harlan and Letcher counties, and between November 2010 and January 2011, they returned to survey 1,020 different randomly selected respondents from the… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Community, Economic Development, Housing, Poverty, Public Opinion |
| Continuity and Change in Coos County Results from the 2010 North Country CERA Survey This brief from Chris Colocousis and Justin Young uses the most recent North Country CERA survey to focus on change and continuity in Coos County between 2007 and 2010, and then makes comparisons of the present conditions across the three study counties. The authors… |
New Hampshire | Community, Economic Development, Environment, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| Climate Change: Partisanship, Understanding, and Public Opinion In 2010, Carsey Institute researchers began including three new questions about climate change on a series of regional surveys. They asked how much people understand about the issue of global warming or climate change; whether they think that most scientists agree… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Civic Attitudes, Climate Change, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Social Impact of the Gulf Oil Disaster: Diverging Views From Communities in Florida and Louisiana Carsey researchers surveyed over two thousand residents of the Gulf Coast following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010 to analyze their perception of the spill. Nearly one-half of all Gulf Coast residents perceived damage to the environment and… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Environment, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Education in Chronically Poor Rural Areas Lags Across Generations As part of the Community and Environment in Rural America (CERA) initiative, the Carsey Institute has been investigating broad trends between rural community types, including the education level of residents and their parents. Since 2007, Carsey researchers have… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Public Opinion, Rural |
| Do Scientists Agree about Climate Change? Public Perceptions from a New Hampshire Survey This report, a collaboration of the Carsey Institute, the UNH Survey Center, and the UNH Office of Sustainability, is the first of a new initiative that will track public perceptions about climate change as they change over time. Questions related to climate change… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Is New Hampshire's Climate Warming? This Carsey brief looks at temperature anomalies across New Hampshire and shows that not only is the state warmer than it has been in the past, but it is also warming faster than much of the planet. Sociologist Lawrence Hamilton, research associate professor Cameron… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Climate Change, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| How Yoopers See the Future of their Communities: Why Residents Leave or Stay in Michigan's Upper Peninsula According to a Community and Environment in Rural America survey, Michigan's Upper Peninsula residents, often called "Yoopers," said that ties to community and the area's natural beauty were significant factors for those who planned on staying in… |
Demography | Community, Demography, Environment, Public Opinion, Rural |
