Public atitudes and behaviours towards the environment – tracker survey.  Final Report to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs; September 2009

Alex Thornton (2009). Public attitudes and behaviours towards the environment – tracker survey: A report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. TNS. Defra, London.

This research was commissioned and funded by Defra. The views expressed reflect the research findings and the authors‟ interpretation; they do not necessarily reflect Defra policy or opinions.

Beliefs and attitudes towards the environment and knowledge of environmental terms

This looks at respondents‟ beliefs and attitudes towards the environment and knowledge of environmental terms. All attitudinal measures reported here were included in the main survey 3. Where possible, findings are compared with those from previous research carried out by Defra (2007) and the Energy Saving Trust (over a series of tracker surveys between 2006 and 2008).

Perceptions of own lifestyle

Respondents were asked two questions to establish how much they felt they were doing that was environmentally-friendly and how happy they were with the amount they were doing to help the environment. The results from these two questions are presented in Table 1 compared with the equivalent results from the 2007 Defra survey.

Perceptions of own lifestyle

At BuilderScrap.com we like this type of quantitative survey as.  The numbers suggest that respondents do think of themselves as environmentally friendly, but a tiny variable wish to do more to help than were recorded in 2007

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