Awareness of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus and Public Policy Support in the United States: Public Attitudes Among the American People Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017, The Author(s) 2017. Most research into the connections between water and energy, water and food, and food and energy has been scientific and technical; little research has examined the publics understandings of these connections. This article studies these understandings and awareness of nexus issues using a 2015 national public opinion survey on the waterenergyfood nexus. Responses from this representative sample of U.S. adults are used to create awareness measures for elements of the nexuswater and energy, water and food, and energy and foodwhich are then used as independent variables to investigate the extent to which awareness is associated with support for public policies designed to address these nexus interconnections. All three measures are significantly correlated to support for policy options. Results suggest that awareness of the waterenergyfood nexus may represent conditions necessary for supporting policies and that building such awareness could represent an important pathway for increasing support for policy interventions.

published proceedings

  • ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR

altmetric score

  • 39

author list (cited authors)

  • Portney, K. E., Hannibal, B., Goldsmith, C., McGee, P., Liu, X., & Vedlitz, A.

citation count

  • 34

complete list of authors

  • Portney, Kent E||Hannibal, Bryce||Goldsmith, Carol||McGee, Peyton||Liu, Xinsheng||Vedlitz, Arnold

publication date

  • January 2018