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Project title

Environmental Quality Objectives ? Noise

Primary Funding Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

South Western Services

Lead Applicant

Declan Waugh

Project Abstract

The research programme on Environmental AttitudesValues and Behaviour in Ireland included the completionand analysis of a quantitative national survey onenvironmental attitudes and behaviour as well as twoqualitative research projects.The national survey of environmental attitudes used amodule on environmental attitudes values and behaviourdesigned by the International Social Survey Programme(ISSP). This was expanded for fielding within the first IrishSocial and Political Attitudes Survey (ISPAS) funded by agrant from the Higher Education Authority under PRTLI-1and PRTLI-2. Drawing on an ISSP module enabled theresearch to have a comparative cross-nationalperspective. The module also repeated many of thequestions asked in an earlier 1993 module onenvironmental attitudes in Ireland enabling trends andchanges over a decade to be examined. Three reportswere produced presenting an analysis of these data. Inthe first report Trends in Irish Environmental Attitudesbetween 1993 and 2002 (Motherway et al. 2003) theextent to which Irish peopleis environmental attitudes andbehaviours changed over the period 1993i-2002 wasexplored. In the second report Cultural Sources ofSupport on which Environmental Attitudes andBehaviours Draw (Kelly et al. 2003) three theoreticalexplanations as to why differences exist in Irish peopleisenvironmental attitudes and behaviours were examined insome detail. The aim of the third report entitledEnvironmental Attitudes and behaviours: Ireland inComparative European Perspective (Kelly et al. 2004)was to examine how the environmental values attitudesand behaviours of Irish people differed from those of theirEuropean neighbours. These reports are available fordownload at http://www.ucd.ie/environ/home.htm andwww.epa.ie. The report in hand presents the executivesummaries of each of these in Chapters 2 3 and 4respectively.

Grant Approved

�257,852.06

Research Hub

Healthy Environment

Research Theme

Environment and Human Health

Start Date

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Initial Projected Completion Date

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