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Index of environmental awareness through the MIMIC approach

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  • Dilya Khakimova
  • Stefanie Lösch
  • Danny Wende
  • Hans Wiesmeth
  • Ostap Okhrin

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This paper addresses the issue of environmental awareness in the regions of the Russian Federation. For this purpose, an index of environmental awareness at regional level is derived as a latent variable from various categories of search entries in Yandex, the prominent Russian search engine, during two periods in the years 2014 and 2015. The frequency of these search requests presumably depends on certain economic and socio‐economic causes, which are integrated into the model for further investigation. The relation between regional wealth and environmental awareness is thereby of particular interest. The multiple indicators‐multiple (MIMIC) causes model allows us to estimate an index of environmental awareness and to rank the Russian regions according to this index. Este artículo aborda la cuestión de la conciencia ambiental en las regiones de la Federación de Rusia. Con este fin, se calculó un índice de conciencia ambiental a nivel regional en forma de variable latente de varias categorías de términos de búsqueda en Yandex, el buscador ruso preponderante, durante dos períodos en los años 2014 y 2015. La frecuencia de estas búsquedas depende presumiblemente de ciertos factores económicos y socio‐económicos, que se integran en el modelo para una futura investigación. La relación entre la riqueza regional y la conciencia ambiental es, por lo tanto, de particular interés. El modelo de múltiples indicadores‐causas múltiples (MIMIC, por sus siglas en inglés) permite estimar un índice de conciencia ambiental y clasificar las regiones rusas según este índice. 本稿では、ロシア連邦の地域における環境意識に関する問題を取り上げる。今回の研究のため、ロシアの検索エンジンの大手であるYandexの検索項目の様々なカテゴリーから、2014年と2015年の二つの期間における、地域レベルの環境意識の指標を潜在変数として導出した。検索実行の頻度は、特定の経済的および社会経済的な原因に依存すると推測されるが、その原因をモデルに組み込んで、より詳細な検討を行う。地域の豊かさと環境意識の関連性は特に重要である。多指標多原因(MIMIC)モデルにより、環境意識の指標の推計と、その指標によりロシアの地域の順位付けを行う。

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  • Dilya Khakimova & Stefanie Lösch & Danny Wende & Hans Wiesmeth & Ostap Okhrin, 2019. "Index of environmental awareness through the MIMIC approach," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 98(3), pages 1419-1441, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:98:y:2019:i:3:p:1419-1441
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12420
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