| The objective of my study was to analyze 216 surveys collected in 2008 and 2009 to evaluate citizens' environmental knowledge, perception and behavioral intention toward Green Infrastructure (GI) options such as rain barrels, trees, rain gardens, porous driveways/sidewalks and curbside extensions which capture and infiltrate storm water, assess the public's acceptability and map residents' likelihood of participation in order to inform outreach, education, and planning efforts to make Syracuse a "greener" city with cleaner waterways. This study explored via regression modeling the statistical relation between the survey responses and the explanatory factors at two different levels, the individual citizen and the neighborhood. These models allowed mapping of environmental attitudes across the city based on the canopy and impervious surface data. Those maps of predicted environmental attitudes in Syracuse revealed an increase in the degree of positive attitudes from downtown toward the city outskirts, which corresponds to observed variation in the percent of canopy as well.;Key Words: Green Infrastructure, Public Participation, Map-based Modeling... |
