The Impact of Cultural Attitudes Toward Environmental Issues on the Green Entrepreneurship Entry Level: A Comparative Study of Three European Countries

2017 ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
Maria Azucena Perez Alonso ◽  
Jose Carlos Sanchez Garcia ◽  
Maria João Cardoso Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Impact

Regions, social structure and value orientations: a comparative study of 15 West European countries

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oddbjørn Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Dimensional Solution ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
West European

This article is a comparative study of regional differences in social and political value orientations. I identify four central sets of value orientations: two Old Politics orientations – religious–secular and economic left–right; and two New Politics orientations – libertarian/authoritarian and green values. I use the international value studies from 15 West European countries as my empirical base. The article addresses three major research problems: (1) Which of the four value orientations is most strongly anchored in regional differences, and in which countries do we find the largest value differences between the regions? (2) Do we find the same ranking of the regions across the four value orientations, or do the value orientations group the regions in separate ways? (3) Can the other socio-structural variables explain the impact of region on value orientations, or is that impact unique? The average correlations between regions and each of the four value orientations are similar but somewhat larger for religious value and libertarian/authoritarian values. With regard to the second research problem, I hypothesize one-, two-, and three-dimensional solutions based on different spatial configurations. The one-dimensional configurations implied that there exist some (centre) regions that have secular, economic rightist, green, and libertarian regions, and (peripheral) regions with opposite value orientations. This pattern is clearly found in four countries. The expected two-dimensional solution with an Old Politics and a New Politics dimension was found in four countries, whereas the expected three-dimensional solution with two Old Politics and one New Politics dimension was found in three countries. In the multivariate analysis examining the causal impact of region, only a small portion of the correlation between region and value orientations was spurious when controlling for the other (quasi-)ascriptive variables. Furthermore, only a small portion of the impact of region was transmitted via social class variables.

scholarly journals Just retreat—how different countries deal with it: examples from Austria and England

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Thaler
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Impact

AbstractFlood risk management has developed a large inventory of potential actions to climate-related hazards. Within this wide array of measures, managed retreat of communities at risk is usually only taken into account if other strategies are ineffective or unavailable. Communities who are affected by managed retreat are confronted with radical changes in their livelihood. However, managed retreat is highly contested. The use of managed retreat includes not only the relocation of house owners but also has the challenge that it discriminates between landowners as some gain and others lose. Therefore, managed retreat raises issues of social justice. To mitigate the impact on land, compensation plays a crucial role in flood risk management. The level and kind of compensation varies between countries across the globe. In this paper, we compare two different policy compensation frameworks in two European countries: Austria and England. The comparative study shows how different compensation schemes affect social justice, both in terms of substantive distributions but also in terms of procedural justice.

A comparative study of the impact of the cooking process on oxygen delignification

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Antonsson ◽  
Mikael E. Lindstrom ◽  
Martin Ragnar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Oxygen Delignification ◽  
Cooking Process ◽  
The Impact
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