{"id":214,"date":"2021-10-14T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-10-21T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:46:41","slug":"exploring-water-conservation-voting-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/2021\/10\/exploring-water-conservation-voting-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Water Conservation Voting Preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/files\/2021\/10\/ocean-g334898461_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/files\/2021\/10\/ocean-g334898461_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/files\/2021\/10\/ocean-g334898461_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do people vote the way they do when it comes to water protection and conservation policy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating with her Master&#8217;s of Agricultural and Environmental Education in May 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/people\/kristin-e-gibson\/\" data-type=\"caes-people\" data-id=\"20\">Kristin Gibson<\/a> successfully published her master&#8217;s thesis research in the September 2021 edition of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/1936704x\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Contemporary Water Research &amp; Education<\/a>. This study used quantitative research design to explore if political affiliation and ideology predicted respondents&#8217; voting preparation on a policy that impacts water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kristin, along with her coauthors Alexa J. Lamm, Kyle M. Woosnam, and D. Barry Croom, found there was room for improvement in the actions respondents would take in preparing to vote for a policy affecting water protection and conservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though a multiple linear regression found political affiliation and political ideology predicted how respondents prepared to vote on water policy, the political leanings accounted for a small amount of variance in the models. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details, explore the full manuscript at: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ucowr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/173_Gibson_et_al.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1936-704X.2021.3355.x<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you ever wonder why people vote the way they do when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/waterconservation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#waterconservation<\/a> efforts? Kristin Gibson explored this in her thesis work and uncovered some interesting findings. Check out her published work in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JCWRE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JCWRE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UGAResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UGAResearch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UGA_CollegeofAg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UGA_CollegeofAg<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tmyAh3b7ee\">https:\/\/t.co\/tmyAh3b7ee<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexa Lamm (@lexlamm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lexlamm\/status\/1440300267816161286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Gibson published her thesis data about engaging the public in water policy and whether political affiliation and ideology influence voting preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[10,3],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-water","tag-lamm","tag-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}