Peter Preisendörfer

Personal Exposure to Unfavorable Environmental Conditions: Does it Stimulate Environmental Activism?

Note: This chapter has been completed as part of the research project “Environmental Justice”, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG project no. PR 237/7-1). Helpful comments have been provided by Heidi Bruderer Enzler, Andreas Diekmann, Reto Meyer, Karl-Dieter Opp, and an anonymous reviewer.

Abstract: Using individual-level data on objective and subjectively perceived local environmental conditions, the article investigates the question of whether unfavorable local environmental conditions constitute an important motivator for environmental activism. Activism is specified ...

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