Comparative Crisis Study 2021: Estonian Environmental Attitudes and Health in the Context of Covid-19 in a Global Comparison

The project will conduct a sociological survey in Estonia in 2021 as part of a comparative study of the International Social Survey Project (ISSP) with a global, academic methodology and reliable probabilistic samples, focusing on environmental attitudes and health behaviors and their changes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic experience. • Prior to the global health crisis that began in 2019, the perception that the world was in a serious environmental crisis was already relatively widespread. Against this background, there is still a debate about crises related to the precariousness of labor relations, the change of gender relations, migration. What are the perceptions and attitudes of the population, and most importantly: what is the population's coping with these crises? How does Estonian society differ from its neighbors? how does it fit into the global reference system? Comparative knowledge in the field helps to understand the nature of crises and to assess the accumulation of possible systemic disadvantages, and from the point of view of Estonian science it enables to draw important conclusions both nationally and internationally on which to base political decisions. • We will reflect the data collected during the project in an international database, which will be published gradually during 2022 and 2023, and we will publish analytical conclusions on the experiences of Estonia and comparison countries in both Estonian and Russian in a format available to a wider audience. In addition to creating the conditions for catalyzing research on environmental attitudes and health behavior at TU, the project will enable research-based diversification of teaching and open up opportunities for international cooperation.