Fifty years of Japanese opinion polls on energy issues before the Tohoku earthquake

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  • エネルギー問題に対する世論調査の変遷
  • エネルギー問題に対する世論調査の変遷 : 東日本大震災前50年間について
  • エネルギー モンダイ ニ タイスル ヨロン チョウサ ノ ヘンセン : ヒガシニホン ダイシンサイ ゼン 50ネンカン ニ ツイテ
  • －東日本大震災前50年間について－

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This study collected and summarized 50 years of Japanese national opinion polls that asked energy issues before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. We thoroughly reviewed survey records of the national government and three major survey databases. We found 339 energy related surveys and acquired questionnaires for 313 of them. We made a chronological summary of energy related questions by grouping those questions into 10 categories of energy issues. The most asked issue was the evaluation of energy policies relative to other policies in the society. The nuclear issue came in the second place and this is followed by the energy saving issue and the energy price issue. We then created indices of questions by which we might follow the history of public opinions regarding particular energy issues.One index collected chronologically traceable questions that a survey body asked the same or approximately the same questions for more than once. These questions might provide clues when evaluating impacts of past public opinions to the development of Japanʼs energy policies. The other index listed two years of survey records immediately before the 2011 earthquake in order to facilitate comparisons of public opinions before and after the earthquake.

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

    ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 26 (6), 477-488, 2013

    SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN

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