%0 Journal Article
%T Awareness of the Food每Energy每Water Nexus and Public Policy Support in the United States: Public Attitudes Among the American People
%A Arnold Vedlitz
%A Bryce Hannibal
%A Carol Goldsmith
%A Kent E. Portney
%A Peyton McGee
%A Xinsheng Liu
%J Environment and Behavior
%@ 1552-390X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0013916517706531
%X Most research into the connections between water and energy, water and food, and food and energy has been scientific and technical; little research has examined the public＊s understandings of these connections. This article studies these understandings and awareness of nexus issues using a 2015 national public opinion survey on the water每energy每food nexus. Responses from this representative sample of U.S. adults are used to create ※awareness measures§ for elements of the nexus〞water and energy, water and food, and energy and food〞which are then used as independent variables to investigate the extent to which awareness is associated with support for public policies designed to address these nexus interconnections. All three measures are significantly correlated to support for policy options. Results suggest that awareness of the water每energy每food nexus may represent conditions necessary for supporting policies and that building such awareness could represent an important pathway for increasing support for policy interventions
%K water每energy nexus
%K water每food nexus
%K energy每food nexus
%K public opinion
%K public policy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0013916517706531