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2. Knowledge of and attitudes about utility pruning and how education can help
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Michael R. Kuhns (author) and Douglas K. Reiterr (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- International Society of Arboriculture
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11492
- Journal Title:
- Arboriculture & Urban Forestry
- Journal Title Details:
- 33(4):264–274
- Notes:
- 11 pages., via online journal, A survey was conducted in six cities in the western United States whose electric utilities practice directional pruning for line clearance. Recipients’ knowledge of and attitudes about tree care practices and issues, utility pruning, directional pruning for line clearance, and effects of a simple brochure about utility pruning were determined. Respondents cared a great deal about landscape trees but had not thought much about utility pruning. They felt that utility pruners care most about keeping lines clear but care less about the trees, that companies are poor at explaining pruning to the public, and slightly disagree that large trees should be removed and replaced with small trees under lines. Those who had thought a lot about utility pruning were less trusting of those who do the pruning. The brochure increased trust of utility pruning personnel and the perception that they care about trees and greatly increased agreement that those personnel are highly trained professionals. Preference for topping over directional pruning was reduced by receiving a brochure, although topping still was preferred. Most supported line burial and were willing to pay higher rates for burial. Several recommendations are suggested for utilities and researchers, including the need for utilities placing an increased emphasis on communication with the public regarding these matters.
3. Listened to, but not heard! The failure to represent the public in genetically modified food policies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lassen, Jesper (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10595
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(8), 923–936.
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., ‘In the mid-1990s, a mismatch was addressed between European genetically modified food policy, which focused primarily on risks and economic prospects, and public anxieties, which also included other concerns, and there was a development in European food policy toward the inclusion of what were referred to as “ethical aspects.” Using parliamentary debates in Denmark in 2002 and 2015 as a case, this article examines how three storylines of concern that were visible in public discourse at the time were represented by the decision makers in parliament. It shows that core public concerns raising fundamental questions about genetically modified foods, and in particular their perceived unnaturalness, were not considered in the parliamentary debates. It is suggested that the failure of the parliament to represent the public may undermine the legitimacy of politicians and lead to disillusionment with parliamentary government.
4. Public outreach initiative attracts national media coverage
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pike, Ben (author)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12
- Published:
- United Kingdom: International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ), Ormstown, Quebec, Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11116
- Journal Title:
- IFAJ E-News
- Journal Title Details:
- 4
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Summary of results from a survey among British citizens inviting attitudes toward food and farming. First such research effort by the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists.
5. Research themes in agricultural education: future gap analysis of the national research agenda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Edgar, Leslie D. (author), Briers, Gary E. (author), and Rutherford, Tracy (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: D09450
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Southern Agricultural Education Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 58(4) : 61-80
6. Wind, power, and the situatedness of community engagement
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kim, Hyomin (author), Cho, Seung Hee (author), and Song, Sungsoo (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10591
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(1): 38–52
- Notes:
- 15 pages., via online journal., Jeju, an island in Korea, became a place to site wind turbines with an unusually high level of public acceptance. Based on interviews, media analyses, and policy research, we found that the collective memory of socio-economic deprivation enabled community engagement to matter to residents, the provincial government, and environmental activists. It was within socio-historically contextualized processes of articulating the vision of a “good” society that an actual form of community engagement, however inadequate it might appear to some, became relevant to stakeholders in a particular locality. We emphasize that community engagement in renewable energy governance does not have one but multiple and situated ways of mattering depending on local contexts.