A Survey of the Public's Attitudes Toward Soil, Water and Related Resources Conservation Policy: Data Volume II, Covering Survey Questions 3 through 16/A/B/C

摘要

Major purposes of the study: (a) to assess the state of the public's knowledge and understanding of basic soil and water conservation problems and practices; (b) to establish the extent to which the public believes in an ethic of conservation; (c) to gauge public priorities in the allocation of land, water and financial resources among competing national domestic needs; (d) to determine public preferences among alternative programmatic approaches to soil and water conservation; (e) to investigate public attitudes towards two leading options for increasing domestic energy supplies, gasohol and synfuels, and their relationship to resource allocation and conservation; (f) to explore the public's perceptions of the structure of American agriculture; and (g) to examine public views of the citizen participation in Federal Government decision making.