Who Cares about Polar Regions? Results from a Survey of U.S. Public Opinion
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Who Cares about Polar Regions? Results from a Survey of U.S. Public Opinion
What do members of the general public know about polar regions, and how much do they care? Who knows or cares? This paper explores data from the General Social Survey (GSS), which in 2006 questioned a representative sample of more than 1800 U.S. adults about their knowledge and opinions concerning polar regions. The polar survey items were modeled on long-running GSS assessments of general scie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1523-0430,1938-4246
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(07-105)[hamilton]2.0.co;2