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Attitudes And Perceptions About Ecological Resources And Hazards Of People Living Around The Savannah River Site, Joanna Burger, Jessica Sanchez, J. Whitfield Gibbons, Jeanine Ondrof, Robert Ramos, Michael J. Mcmahon, Karen F. Gaines, Christine Lord, Marie Fullmer, Michael Gochfeld Jan 1999

Attitudes And Perceptions About Ecological Resources And Hazards Of People Living Around The Savannah River Site, Joanna Burger, Jessica Sanchez, J. Whitfield Gibbons, Jeanine Ondrof, Robert Ramos, Michael J. Mcmahon, Karen F. Gaines, Christine Lord, Marie Fullmer, Michael Gochfeld

Karen F. Gaines

Although considerable attention is devoted to environmental monitoring and assessment with respect to both pollutants and the status of particular plant or animal populations, less attention is devoted to assessing people's attitudes about the relative importance of ecological resources. In this paper we examine the attitudes and perceptions about ecological resources of people living around the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS), in South Carolina. Our overall hypothesis is that people who are directly affected by the possible outcomes and consequences of a particular hazard (i.e., those people employed at SRS) will undervalue the risks and overvalue the potential …


Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology Of Barbie Material Culture And Domestic Ideology, Paul Mullins, Marlys Pearson Jan 1999

Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology Of Barbie Material Culture And Domestic Ideology, Paul Mullins, Marlys Pearson

Paul Mullins

No abstract provided.


Sources Of Parental Values, Hong Xiao, Nancy Andes Jan 1999

Sources Of Parental Values, Hong Xiao, Nancy Andes

Hong Xiao

No abstract provided.