Environmental Issues

 

SSMR carried out a survey for the Environment Agency, in partnership with the Department of Sociology, to explore the public’s response and understanding of flood warnings. A combined methodological approach was employed initially using a secondary analysis of existing Post Events survey data to show how previous flood victims responded when faced with an emergency flood situation. This information, as well as that provided by focus groups and interviews, informed the final survey stage of the project where respondents were asked how they would act when faced with a set of flood scenarios.

 

Other studies include:

• Environmental concerns among disadvantaged groups UK wide

• Consumers’ views on recycling in the UK, France, Sweden and Finland

• Waste management / attitudes towards recycling

• Social responses to environmental taxation - part of a European project (PETRAS)

• The social value of woodlands and trees