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What Do People Say Is the Most Important Reason to Protect Nature: An Analysis of Pro-Environmental Motives Across 11 Countries

2021-10-15

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<p>Using open-ended responses from 5,297 interviews across 11 countries, this study reports what people say are the most important reasons to protect nature. Overall, and in some individual countries (e.g., Brazil, China, South Africa, South Korea, United States), the most frequently stated reason was an anthropocentric motive of ensuring human health and survival. But in some countries (e.g., Kenya, United Kingdo...

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Literature Corpus work: 14cd062b-b995-5a5b-b09f-453e8406c44c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/k2z6c

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