Steel Brent S, Pierce John C, Warner Rebecca L, Lovrich Nicholas P
School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, 300 Gilkey Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-6206, USA,
Environ Manage. 2015 Mar;55(3):634-45. doi: 10.1007/s00267-014-0419-3. Epub 2014 Dec 10.
The 2013 Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy signed by the Governors of California, Oregon, and Washington and the Premier of British Columbia launched a broadly announced public commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through multiple strategies. Those strategies include the development and increased use of renewable energy sources. The initiative recognized that citizens are both a central component in abating greenhouse gas emissions with regard to their energy use behaviors, and are important participants in the public policymaking process at both state and local levels of government. The study reported here examines whether either support or opposition to state government leadership in the development of alternative energy technologies can be explained by environmental values as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP). The research results are based on mail surveys of randomly selected households conducted throughout Oregon and Washington in late 2009 and early 2010. Findings suggest that younger and more highly educated respondents are significantly more likely than older and less educated respondents to either support or strongly support government policies to promote bioenergy, wind, geothermal, and solar energy. Those respondents with higher NEP scores are also more supportive of government promotion of wind, geothermal, and solar technologies than are those with lower NEP scores. Support for wave energy does not show a statistical correlation with environmental values, maybe a reflection of this technology's nascent level of development. The paper concludes with a consideration of the implications of these findings for environmental management.
2013年，加利福尼亚州、俄勒冈州和华盛顿州州长以及不列颠哥伦比亚省省长签署了《太平洋海岸气候与能源行动计划》，宣布了一项广泛的公众承诺，即通过多种战略减少温室气体排放。这些战略包括开发和增加可再生能源的使用。该倡议认识到，公民在通过能源使用行为减少温室气体排放方面是核心组成部分，并且是州和地方政府公共决策过程中的重要参与者。本文所报告的研究考察了对州政府在发展替代能源技术方面的领导作用的支持或反对，是否可以通过新生态范式（NEP）所衡量的环境价值观来解释。研究结果基于2009年末和2010年初在俄勒冈州和华盛顿州对随机抽取的家庭进行的邮件调查。研究结果表明，与年龄较大、受教育程度较低的受访者相比，年龄较小、受教育程度较高的受访者更有可能支持或强烈支持政府促进生物能源、风能、地热能和太阳能的政策。那些新生态范式得分较高的受访者也比得分较低的受访者更支持政府推广风能、地热能和太阳能技术。对波浪能的支持与环境价值观没有显示出统计相关性，这可能反映了这项技术尚处于起步阶段。本文最后考虑了这些研究结果对环境管理的影响。
