Environment Resources

Questions on Environment were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey in 2000, as part of the International Social Survey Programme.
Questions were also asked of 16 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 2006.
Questions on Countryside and Farming were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey in 2004.

ARK Resources

• Cultivating Good Relations though Social and Community Farming is a Policy Brief by Jonny Hanson and Aoibeann Walsh.
• A 'green and pleasant land?' Public attitudes to the countryside in Northern Ireland, by Sally Shortall (Research Update 47)
• Being Green: Attitudes to the Environment, by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd, Research Update 15, presents results from the 2000 Life and Times Environment module
• The environment: am I bovvered?, by Paula Devine, Research Update 49, explores attitudes to the environment using data from the 2006 Young Life and Times survey.
• SOL (Surveys Online) contains tables of results from the British Social Attitudes Survey for this module.

Links

• Friends of the Earth is one of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK. Their site provides information on national campaigns relating to climate, transport and waste, as well as an extensive list of links. The site for the Northern Ireland branch provides information on local campaigns.
  
• TCV is working with people to bring about positive environmental change and is a practical conservation charity.
• Northern Ireland Environment Link is the networking and forum body for organisations interested in the natural and built environment of Northern Ireland
• The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has responsibility for food, farming, environmental, fisheries, forestry and sustainability policy and the development of the rural sector in Northern Ireland.
  
• ENFO is the Republic of Ireland's public information service on environmental matters. The site contains a wide range of resources on a wide range of topics such as pollution, climate change and waste management.