Environmental ethics and attitudes may be an important source of heterogeneity when considering the welfare effects and equity implications of policy changes dealing with environment and natural resources. The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale is a set of 15 likert questions and is intended to indicate whether an individual holds pro-environmental or anti-environmental beliefs. This paper pro...

INTRODUCTION Oral cancer is a public health problem giving rise to a great number of disabilities and deaths, but the possibility of survival is astonishingly higher when detected early. Health professionals therefore have an important role and responsibility in the prevention and early detection of oral cancer. They should be in a position to identify all suspicious lesions and to search for s...

OBJECTIVE Since communicating risk related to environmental hazards has consistently presented a challenge to government agencies and industries, our objective was to better understand the attitudes and beliefs of three communities, so as to help agencies and industries develop better risk communication interventions. METHODS We explored attitudes and beliefs about environmental risks in thre...

Objectives. This article examines environmental policy attitudes, focusing on the differences in preferences across issue type (i.e., pollution, resource preservation) and geographical scale (i.e., local, national, global). In addition, we study whether an individual’s trust in government influences environmental policy attitudes. Methods. Analyzing data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional ...