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2. Earth Day at 50: the world's satisfaction with the environment
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Survey report
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International: Gallup, Inc., Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D11646
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Results of Gallup World Poll 2019. Online from publisher., "On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Gallup offers a snapshot of how satisfied people in 145 countries and areas around the world were in 2019 with their efforts to preserve the environment and with the quality of their air and water."
3. Illinois residents value strategies to improve water quality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stein, Marianne (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01
- Published:
- USA: College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12123
- Notes:
- Via online research summary. 4 pages., Summary of a research project among rural and urban residents in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed in central Illinois to learn how much people care about local water quality, fish populations, and algae blooms, and how much they care about meeting Environmental Protection Agency targets which benefit the Gulf of Mexico. Responses indicated that rural and urban residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution and are willing to pay for environmental improvements.
4. Rural household preferences for cleaner energy sources in Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Imran, Muhammad (author), Ozcatalbas, Orhan (author), and Bakhsh, Khuda (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Pakistan: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10536
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Notes:
- 11 pages., via online journal., Dependence of rural population on traditional fuel sources namely biomass has increased because of easy accessibility and affordability. The use of biomass fuels results in many environmental and health-related hazards. Rural households have little awareness about the ill effects of using biomass energy sources. This study investigated the patterns of rural household energy use and identified the role of information on the effects of biomasses on human health, in addition to other factors influencing households’ choices of energy sources. For this purpose, primary data from 196 households were collected from four districts of the Punjab province in Pakistan. Results showed that use of clean energy sources was limited to basic appliances and 90% of the respondents depended on biomass fuels. Estimates of the multivariate probit model showed that awareness about adverse impacts of biomass fuels as energy sources were significantly related with the choice of energy sources. Further, household head’s education level, household income, landholding, children under the age of 5 years and higher number of adult females were significantly related with the cleaner energy source choices. Distance to market increased the probability of the use of biomass energy sources. The study concluded that awareness campaigns regarding the benefits of using clean energy sources should be launched through print and electronic media while targeting rural women.
5. Strap in: environmental pressure is accelerating
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Blog posting
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06-18
- Published:
- USA: The Center for Good Integrity. Gladstone, Missouri.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10561
- Notes:
- 3 pages., Online from the Center for Food Integrity, Gladstone, Missouri., Features research results indicating that public conversation about the environment is growing and so is the scrutiny applied to consumption of natural resources. Information source urges producers to engage more actively.