Key Terms
Background
Study
Results
100

Theory that supports the idea that proximity to environmental problems drive heightened concern

environmental deprivation theory

100

The strongest predictors of environmental concern

 Race, class, and gender

100

Where this study was conducted

Charlotte, North Carolina

100

The main shortcoming in data collection

Response rates were not included -- data could be biased towards people that wanted to respond

200

Theory that supports the idea that socially marginalized groups have less environmental concern because they must focus on more essential needs

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

200

Groups that face greater stormwater hazards and recovery challenges

Marginalized Communities (low income, unemployed, underinsured)

200

How gender of respondents was determined

By voice

200

How gender affected willingness to pay

Women had greater willingness to pay

300

Governance that focuses on engineering and technological strategies, shifting water management out of sight of the public

Technocratic

300

Ways women bear the brunt of flood-recovery tasks (name one out of the three)

They care for sick and elderly family members, apply for aid from public services, and women-dominated service industries are less likely to provide job security, childcare, and uninterrupted paychecks during flood events

300

The three studied variables

Willingness to pay, Willingness to volunteer, concern for flooding 

300

The main barrier for willingness to pay

Economic status

400
What CMSWS stands for

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services

400

What leads to high stormwater risk perception

physical exposure and and high vulnerability to stormwater hazards

400

The model that  utilizes a framework to describe the relationship between attitudes and behaviors

Attitude-behavioral model 



400

Relationship that defines less educated individual’s willingness to pay flood fees (in contrast to highly educated individual’s willingness to pay)

Indirect relationship

500

A statistical technique that is used as a way to understand how one variable affects another through a third variable

Mediation Analysis

500

How stormwater fees are determined

The amount of impervious land on one’s property

500

What OLS stands for

Ordinary Least Squares

500

How study measurements should change in the future to be more realistic

Measure based on action, rather than just intent (ex. joining advocacy groups)

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