24 pages., Via online journal., We examined the relationship between attitudes toward urban ecological restoration and cognitive (perceived outcomes, value orientation, and objective knowledge), affective (emotional responses), and behavioral factors using residents of the Chicago Metropolitan Region. Positive and negative attitudes were both related to perceived outcomes of ecological restoration. In addition, positive attitudes were related to values while negative attitudes were related to emotions. Attitudes of high and low importance groups were connected to perceived outcomes of ecological restoration; however, attitudes of the high importance group were also related to values, emotions, and behavior. Positive and negative attitude groups differed on perceived outcomes, basic beliefs, knowledge, and behavior. Implications lie in understanding of complex attitudes toward natural resource issues and improved communication efforts to influence or educate the public.
22 pages, Many stated preference studies have shown that individuals’ attitudes play an important role in explaining their behaviour and helping to disentangle preference heterogeneity. When responses to attitudinal questions are introduced into discrete choice models, a suitable approach that corrects for potential endogeneity must be adopted. We use a discrete choice experiment to analyse the preferences of residents regarding the use of agri-environmental practices in the peri-urban area of Milan (Italy). A detailed analysis of these preferences is relevant for policymakers as farmers on the peri-urban fringe are often asked to provide environmental services to urban-dwellers. We apply a latent class model that we extend to include indicators of individuals’ attitudes towards the relationship between agriculture and the environment. Besides the application of the control function approach to deal with endogeneity, our main contribution is the use of a refutability test to check the exogeneity of the instruments in the agri-environmental setting. Our results show that attitudinal indicators help to disentangle the preference heterogeneity and that the respondents’ willingness-to-pay distribution differs according to the indicators’ values.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15891
Notes:
Pages 39-50 in A. Eaglesham, S.G. Pueppke and R.W.F. Hardy (eds.), NABC Report 13: Genetically modified food and the consumer. Ithaca, New York: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council.
2 p., "Trends in the United States - consumer attitudes & the supermarket, 2003, the annual consumer trends study conducted for FMI (Food Marketing Institute) by Marketing Analysts Inc.
American Farm Bureau Ferderation (author) and Altria Corporate Services, Inc. (author)
Format:
Research report/slides
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 194 Document Number: C17995
Notes:
on cd-rom, Contains summaries of research findings that compare U.S. farmer and consumer attitudes about the food supply system. Includes data tables containing results from 2002 and from a similar study conducted in 1999.
Harris, Craig K. (author), Molnar, Joseph J. (author), Wimberley, Ronald C. (author), and Tomazic, Terry J. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA: Praeger, Westport, Connecticut
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18454
Notes:
163 pages, Compares 1986 and 1992 survey data about U.S. public attitudes/perceptions of agriculture, in terms of agricultural policies, pest management, food safety, water quality, farm animal welfare, agrarianism and other aspects.
Lobao, Linda M. (author), Wimberley, Ronald C. (author), and Thompson, Alton (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18455
Notes:
Pages 15-30 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Harris, Craig K. (author) and Bailey, Conner (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18456
Notes:
Pages 31-42 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Harris, Craig K. (author), Molnar, Joseph J. (author), and Traxler, Maria (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18457
Notes:
Pages 43-55 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Harris, Craig K. (author), Tomazic, Terry J. (author), and Katz, Barry M. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18458
Notes:
Pages 57-74 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Tomazic, Terry J. (author) and Katz, Barry M. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18459
Notes:
Pages 75-85 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Tomazic, Terry J. (author), Ohlendorf, George W. (author), and Jenkins, Quentin A.L. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18460
Notes:
Pages 87-101 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Coughenour, C. Milton (author) and Swanson, Louis E. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18461
Notes:
Pages 103-116 in Ronald C. Wimberley, Craig K. Harris, Joseph J. Molnar and Terry J. Tomazic (eds.), The social risks of agriculture: Americans speak out on food, farming and the environment. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 163 pages.
Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands), This paper develops a model of differentiated consumers to examine the consumption effects of genetic modification (GM) under alternative labelling regimes and segregation enforcement scenarios. Analytical results show that if consumers perceive GM products as being different than their traditional counterparts, GM affects consumer welfare and, thus, consumption decisions. When the existence of market imperfections in one or more stages of the supply chain prevents the transmission of cost savings associated with the new technology to consumers, GM results in welfare losses for consumers. The analysis shows that the relative welfare ranking of the `no labelling' and `mandatory labelling' regimes depends on: (i) the level of consumer aversion to GM products; (ii) the size of marketing and segregation costs under mandatory labelling; (iii) the share of the GM product in total production; and (iv) the extent to which GM products are incorrectly labelled as non-GM products.
Europe: Luxemburg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. Brussel, European Commission, Research DG, 2000
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18714
Notes:
94 pages; REPORT BY INRA (EUROPE) - ECOSA ON BEHALF OF Directorate-General for Research Directorate B - Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources Programme MANAGED AND ORGANISED BY Directorate-General for Education and Culture Citizens’ Centre (Public Opinion Analysis Unit)
Sponsored by The European Commission, Directorate General XXIV, Unilever, Association of Dutch Infant and Dietic Food Industries, Breukelen, Netherlands
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1999-05-28
Published:
Consumer & Biotechnology Foundation in cooperation with European Federation of Asthma and Allergy Associations Bureau Europeen des Unions de Consommateurs
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19101
Burton, Michael (author / School of Agriculture & Resource Economics, University of Western Austrailia) and Pearse, Dale (author / School of Agriculture & Resource Economics, University of Western Austrailia)
Format:
Online article
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 128 Document Number: C19120
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19688
Notes:
Pages 31-40 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages., Includes discussion about consumer perceptions, as related to food safety issues such as fat in the diet and mad cow disease.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19690
Notes:
Pages 219-228 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages.
Slovic, Paul (author) and Kunreuther, Howard (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19694
Notes:
Pages 331-352 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages., Authors describe four strategies for coping with stigma. Examples of stigma include the Alar scare of 1989: "media-amplified stigmatization" of apples after CBS ran a news story on "60 Minutes" stating that the chemical Alar could cause cancer.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19695
Notes:
Pages 353-368 in James Flynn, Paul Slovic and Howard Kunreuther (eds), Risk, media and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science and technology. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 399 pages., Discussion about "stigma" includes reference to consumer reactions in the Alar Scare of 1989 that involved a program on CBS "60 Minutes" indicating that Alar chemical used in apple production can cause cancer.
