http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/4375/christopher-citro Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 15 May 2026 14:41:11 -0400 Fri, 15 May 2026 14:41:11 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1606/environmentalism-and-postmaterialism-in-china By Christopher Citro - Postmaterialist values, those that emphasize higher-order human needs, have become widely accepted as the determining force behind environmentalism in the West. Little research has been dedicated to studying the importance of these values outside of the developed world where experience with pollution has been the assumed cause for people's concern for the environment. This study seeks to expand the understanding of ecological concern in China by testing the values-based theory of environmentalism in China. Using survey data taken from the World Values Survey, this study finds no evidence of a... Fri, 31 May 2013 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1606/environmentalism-and-postmaterialism-in-china