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1. The effects of economic conditions on support for environmental protection

Author

Kenny, John and Fisher, Stephen

Subjects
363.7, Political sociology, Environmental politics, Economic Conditions, Public opinion
Abstract

This thesis highlights the ways in which economic conditions affect support for environmental protection. The coincidence of a decrease in environmental attitudes and increase in climate scepticism with the Great Recession of 2008 had suggested that deteriorating economic conditions could have a negative effect on environmental attitudes. While previous literature has largely supported this, it has been limited in its ability to firmly establish the causal mechanisms at work. The analysis contained in this thesis makes a number of important advances. Using cross-national data from before and after the onset of the economic crisis, I demonstrate that changing prioritisation of environmental protection is particularly sensitive to changes in unemployment rates and that its connection with changing economic growth would appear to be spurious. Through an innovative online survey experiment, I show that the salience of individuals' economic perceptions has an independent effect on their prioritisation of taking urgent action to tackle climate change - with those who are reminded of their positive economic perceptions being more likely to prioritise such action and vice versa for those who are reminded of their negative economic perceptions - but that it has no such effect on their belief in anthropogenic climate change. However, analysis of New Zealand panel data suggests that changes in economic perceptions and individuals' household financial situation cannot explain the decline in environmental attitudes witnessed in 2008. I make a substantive methodological contribution by establishing that environmental-economic trade-off questions primarily capture environmental rather than economic attitudes. Finally, I demonstrate that environmental attitudes can have tangible effects on support for policies that are environmentally beneficial when such policies are not being primarily framed through an environmental lens using the case study of support for water charges in Ireland in 2011.

Published
2019

2. Core Competencies of a Trainer.

Author

Ontario Society for Training and Development, Toronto. and Kenny, John B.

Abstract

This publication outlines recommended minimum competencies for training and development personnel, as developed by the Professional Development Committee of the Ontario Society for Training and Development. It is intended to provide basic checklists of necessary skills, knowledge, and behaviors for each of four categories of training and development personnel identified by the committee. These categories include instructors, designers, managers, and consultants. Most of the publication consists of a chart entitled "Schedule of Descriptors," which lists specific skills and behaviors for each of 11 core competency areas that are relevant to one or more of the four categories of training and development personnel. (JG)

Published
1976

3. Electric dipole radiation in isotropic and uniaxial plasmas

Author

Kenny, John J. and Kenny, John J.

Abstract

NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. This paper describes an investigation of radiation from an electric point dipole situated in a cold, collisionless, homogeneous, electronic plasma medium. Two limiting cases of a gyroelectric medium are studied. The magnetostatic biasing field [...] is first taken to be equal to zero, making the medium isotropic, and then it is taken to be infinite, causing a uniaxial anisotropy. The retarded electromagnetic fields and the instantaneous and averaged values of irreversibly radiated power [...] are calculated. In each medium, the partial differential equations resulting from the two-sided Laplace transformation of Maxwell's equations with an oscillating electric dipole source and the constitutive equations (derived from the appropriate form of the Lorentz force equation) are solved. A particular path deformation of the Laplace inversion integral reveals that the electromagnetic fields and [...] are exactly expressible in terms of circular, cylindrical, and two-variabled Lommel functions. Asymptotic expressions and graphical results of numerical calculations of these quantities are presented. For the isotropic case, it is shown that the retarded fields are well behaved for all space and time (excluding the origin, of course). [...] eventually settles down to the result derived from the conventional time-harmonic analysis when the dipole oscillation frequency [...] is greater than the plasma frequency [...] . When the value of [...] is less than that of [...], [...] eventually oscillates at a frequency [.....] with zero average value. When the medium is uniaxial, the fields are finite everywhere except at the dipole. The amplitude of the fields does, however, increase with increasing time. This is quite different from the ordinary time-harmonic solution which ignores all time variations different from [...] and which is singular on a conical surface defined

Published
1968

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