谷歌趋势与节水意识:互联网对南非的贡献

IF 1.1 4区社会学 Q3 GEOGRAPHY

South African Geographical Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-24 DOI:10.1080/03736245.2021.1901239

A. Pretorius, E. Kruger, S. Bezuidenhout

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摘要

南非有干旱期，导致水资源限制。提高公众对缺水和干旱的认识和了解可能有助于合理利用水资源。本文利用谷歌趋势，从2009年1月1日至2019年1月1日连续10年期间，确定了南非公众对水资源短缺和干旱的认识水平和性质。谷歌Trends有实时数据集，它检查谷歌上的搜索词，并提供当前兴趣的见解。这些数据被用来确定公众对缺水和干旱的认识水平。将干旱前的搜索与干旱期间的搜索进行了比较，并确定了谷歌趋势搜索与媒体标题之间的对应关系。人们的搜索反映出，在媒体报道环境危机时，他们的环保意识更强。

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Google trends and water conservation awareness: the internet’s contribution in South Africa

ABSTRACT South Africa has periods of drought, which lead to water restrictions. Enhanced public awareness and understanding of water scarcity and drought might contribute to the sensible use of water resources. In this article the level and nature of public awareness towards water scarcity and drought in South Africa were determined using Google Trends over a period of 10 consecutive years from 1 January 2009–1 January 2019. Google Trends has real-time datasets, which examines search terms on Google and offers insight into current interests. The data were used to establish the level of public awareness regarding water scarcity and drought. Pre-drought searches were compared to searches done during drought conditions and the correspondence between Google Trend searches and media headlines were identified. People’s searches reflected that they were more environmentally aware during media reported environmental crises.

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South African Geographical Journal GEOGRAPHY-

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3.40

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7.10%

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期刊介绍： The South African Geographical Journal was founded in 1917 and is the flagship journal of the Society of South African Geographers. The journal aims at using southern Africa as a region from, and through, which to communicate geographic knowledge and to engage with issues and themes relevant to the discipline. The journal is a forum for papers of a high academic quality and welcomes papers dealing with philosophical and methodological issues and topics of an international scope that are significant for the region and the African continent, including: Climate change Environmental studies Development Governance and policy Physical and urban Geography Human Geography Sustainability Tourism GIS and remote sensing