December 2015
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Despite a rise in environmental consciousness amongst the British public during the past decade, very little academic research has been conducted on consumers’ perceptions of environmental problems. This holds particularly for research relating to perceptions of environmental issues in industrial sectors and service industries. This paper aims to redress this gap through focussing on concerns about environmental nuisances arising from an industrial service, notably freight transport. Following a review of the literature, multivariate analysis is used to test a number of hypotheses relating to demographic and situational variables and to examine certain environment-related factors likely to impinge upon individuals’ perceptions of nuisances. The paper concludes that many of the characteristics found to be associated with general concern about the environment are only of limited use when related to a specific industrial service.