Download or read book An Assessment of Attitudes Knowledge and Beliefs of Global Warming written by James Eric Fason and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Assessment of Attitudes and Knowledge of Global Warming of Black Students at Jackson State University written by James Eric Fason and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing Climate Change Knowledge Perceptions Beliefs Attitudes and Behaviors of Mexicans written by César A. Nanni De Valle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Worldwide, climate change is affecting communities and economies. This daunting problem, seemingly needing to be addressed sooner than later, has often not been taken seriously. This study aimed to adapt the Yale Climate Opinion Survey (Leiserowitz et al., 2022), an American assessment instrument, for use in the Mexican municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia to analyze citizens' knowledge, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards climate change. Using a blended case study methodology and mixed methods, this exploration seemed to indicate that Mexicans believe anthropogenic global warming is happening, but do not expect it to affect them personally or directly influence their communities. Findings suggest that the population of Mexicans have relatively limited formal education on the topic, yet prefer top-down solutions generated by government regulations. The researchþs significance lies in informing decision-makers in creating meaningful and participatory solutions towards the climate change crisis."--leaf ii.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Science Education written by Sandra K. Abell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the art research Handbook provides a comprehensive, coherent, current synthesis of the empirical and theoretical research concerning teaching and learning in science and lays down a foundation upon which future research can be built. The contributors, all leading experts in their research areas, represent the international and gender diversity that exists in the science education research community. As a whole, the Handbook of Research on Science Education demonstrates that science education is alive and well and illustrates its vitality. It is an essential resource for the entire science education community, including veteran and emerging researchers, university faculty, graduate students, practitioners in the schools, and science education professionals outside of universities. The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) endorses the Handbook of Research on Science Education as an important and valuable synthesis of the current knowledge in the field of science education by leading individuals in the field. For more information on NARST, please visit: http://www.narst.org/.

Download or read book Surveying Climate Relevant Behavior written by Markus Hadler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of climate-relevant behaviors with population surveys and develops an instrument that allows a valid estimate of an individual’s GHG emissions with a few core items. While the development of these instruments was based on surveys and qualitative interviews conducted in Austria, the instruments were subsequently tested in a set of 31 European countries, revealing the international relevance of such research. The book also concludes with a brief consideration of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on environmental attitudes, situating the project globally.

Download or read book Relationship Between Knowledge Confidence and Beliefs in Global Warming written by Logan Smoot and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scientists are perplexed by the fact that some people do not believe in global warming, despite overwhelming scientific evidence. Prior research suggests that part of the reason might be that people are uninformed (Tobler et al., 2012). However, it is also worth considering how people perceive their own knowledge about global warming. For the general public, believing in global warming depends on trusting experts (Almassi, 2012). Expertise is relative, and the extent to which we defer to an expert depends on our assessment of their knowledge relative to ours. The Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE) suggests that people tend to overestimate their own knowledge (Kruger and Dunning, 1999), and there is evidence that people are bad at evaluating their knowledge about global warming in particular (Sharp and Hoj, 2010). However, there has been no research directly examining how someone's knowledge about global warming and their confidence in that knowledge relate to their beliefs in global warming. In the present study, we investigate this by having participants take surveys that measure their global warming knowledge, general science knowledge, confidence in their knowledge, and their global warming beliefs. We found that participants were underconfident in their global warming knowledge and this knowledge is the key predictor of one's belief in global warming. In addition, as confidence on the general science knowledge test increased, beliefs in global warming decreased, which is consistent with the DKE.

Download or read book The Securitisation of Climate Change written by Thomas Diez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It thereby clarifies the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security, risk and politics. Whereas securitisation studies have traditionally focused on either a single country case study or a global overview, consequently failing to reconstruct detailed securitisation dynamics, this is the first book to provide a systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses in four countries and thus closes an empirical gap in the present literature. In addition, this comparative framework allows the drawing of conclusions about the conditions for and consequences of successful securitisation based on empirical and comparative analysis rather than theoretical debate only. This book will of interest to students of climate change, environmental studies, critical security, global governance, and IR in general.

Download or read book Does Knowledge Matter An Investigation of the Relationship Between Mental Models of Climate Change and Proenvironmental Behaviors written by Rebecah Dawn Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of the myriad environmental challenges that humans face as a result of global change, citizens will increasingly be expected to understand complex phenomena such as climate change. Decisions such as individual behavior choices, voting, and activism are related to understanding these issues. This study addresses the question of how an educated citizenry might adapt to evolving public information as scientists refine their own understanding and predictions about global change. This dissertation describes an investigation of mental models of climate change and their relationship to proenvironmental behaviors. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that behaving in an environmentally responsible manner involves an understanding of the phenomenon, in this case, climate change; holding proenvironmental attitudes, which orient an individual towards a normative goal frame; and receiving situational cues that strengthen the normative goal frame. This study tests these hypotheses by measuring mental models of climate change, beliefs about climate change, attitudes towards climate change and behavioral intentions in one study and then manipulating situational cues in an experimental decision-making setting in another. The study incorporates both correlational and experimental designs. Correlational data comprised responses from US adults on three instruments: mental models of climate change, beliefs about and attitudes towards climate change, and proenvironmental behaviors. Patterns of correlations for mental models, beliefs/attitudes, and self-reported behaviors were analyzed and multiple regression analysis were employed to fit models to the data. For the experimental design, individuals were randomly presented with one of three environmental messages and asked their willingness to engage in actions to address climate change. Logistic regression analysis was employed to model relationship between mental models, attitudes, and experimental condition on behavioral intentions. Both main effects and interactions were analyzed. With both self-reported behaviors and behavioral intentions as dependent variables, mental model scores were not independently predictive of proenvironmental behaviors. The beliefs/attitudes survey yielded three scores that were independently predictive of proenvironmental behaviors: the belief that climate change is caused by humans, the belief that there is evidence climate change is happening, and attitudes towards climate change. The main experimental intervention in this study, environmental messaging, did not result in any meaningful differences in willingness to engage in actions to address climate change. Attitudes were the only main effect predictive of proenvironmental behavioral intentions, yet none of the interactions with attitudes were statistically significant. The interaction of mental models and messaging was statistically significant. The results of this study show a relationship between education and behavior. There was no teaching intervention or data collected about formal and informal learning experiences related to climate change so little can be said about what types of education are most effective, but the data suggests that knowledge affects responsiveness to situational cues that impact behavioral decisions.

Download or read book Climate Change Education written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change. Although information on climate change is readily available, the nation still seems unprepared or unwilling to respond effectively to climate change, due partly to a general lack of public understanding of climate change issues and opportunities for effective responses. The reality of global climate change lends increasing urgency to the need for effective education on earth system science, as well as on the human and behavioral dimensions of climate change, from broad societal action to smart energy choices at the household level. The public's limited understanding of climate change is partly the result of four critical challenges that have slowed development and delivery of effective climate change education. As one response to these challenges, Congress, in its 2009 and 2010 appropriation process, requested that the National Science Foundation (NSF) create a program in climate change education to provide funding to external grantees to improve climate change education in the United States. To support and strengthen these education initiatives, the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council (NRC) created the Climate Change Education Roundtable. The Roundtable convened two workshops. Climate Change Education Goals, Audiences, and Strategies is a summary of the discussions and presentations from the first workshop, held October 21 and 22, 2010. This report focuses on two primary topics: public understanding and decision maker support. It should be viewed as an initial step in examining the research on climate change and applying it in specific policy circumstances.

Download or read book Advancing the Science of Climate Change written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for-and in many cases is already affecting-a broad range of human and natural systems. The compelling case for these conclusions is provided in Advancing the Science of Climate Change, part of a congressionally requested suite of studies known as America's Climate Choices. While noting that there is always more to learn and that the scientific process is never closed, the book shows that hypotheses about climate change are supported by multiple lines of evidence and have stood firm in the face of serious debate and careful evaluation of alternative explanations. As decision makers respond to these risks, the nation's scientific enterprise can contribute through research that improves understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change and also is useful to decision makers at the local, regional, national, and international levels. The book identifies decisions being made in 12 sectors, ranging from agriculture to transportation, to identify decisions being made in response to climate change. Advancing the Science of Climate Change calls for a single federal entity or program to coordinate a national, multidisciplinary research effort aimed at improving both understanding and responses to climate change. Seven cross-cutting research themes are identified to support this scientific enterprise. In addition, leaders of federal climate research should redouble efforts to deploy a comprehensive climate observing system, improve climate models and other analytical tools, invest in human capital, and improve linkages between research and decisions by forming partnerships with action-oriented programs.

Download or read book Climate Change and Conceptual Change written by David Joseph Clark and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Warming ("GW") is easily one of the most pressing concerns of our time, and its solution will come about only through a change in human behavior. Compared to the residents of most other nations worldwide, Americans report lower acceptance of the realities of GW. In order to address this concern in a free society, U.S. residents must be convinced or coerced to take the necessary actions. In spite of the democratic appeal of education, however, many climate communicators appear to be settling on the notion that emotional persuasion is superior to education. We'll set an empirical foundation in Chapter 2, reviewing an experiment in the Numerically Driven Inferencing (NDI) paradigm that sheds some light on the cognitive processes involved in learning and attitude shifts in response to surprising policy-relevant information. Chapters 3-6 contain results from a comprehensive program of research specifically targeting climate-related attitudes and beliefs in the United States. As alluded to above, there have been many surveys of American attitudes. Chapter 3 provides an overview of our approach to assessing climate-related beliefs and attitudes. In particular, we note relationships observed in one survey between scientific literacy regarding the GW mechanism on one hand and attitudes, including "willingness to sacrifice" on the other. As with some other empirical approaches, our results suggest that U.S. residents generally accept anthropogenic (i.e., "human caused") climate change, and support action on this issue. But even if this is the case, Chapter 4 describes an experiment demonstrating that these beliefs and attitudes are disturbingly fragile in the face of cherry-picked, misleading numerical facts. Chapter 5 then describes a pair of experiments evaluating the effects of representative numerical facts. Chapter 5's Study 1 (Section 5.1) demonstrates that even when students report strong psychological effects after receiving a set of surprising numbers, their beliefs and attitudes will not necessarily be affected. Chapter 5's Study 2 (Section 5.2) improves upon the clarity of materials used in Study 1 and demonstrates that such materials can effectively increase climate change acceptance and concern. In both of these studies, as with the study presented in Chapter 4, this relatively uncontextualized, surprising numerical information undermines students' confidence in their own knowledge. Chapter 6 reports on three successful experiments (spanning four samples) that provide a coherent explanation of the mechanism of climate change that includes relevant numerical facts. As with Study 2 in Chapter 5, this intervention shifts participant attitudes towards the scientific consensus. Unlike uncontextualized numerical information, however, this mechanism intervention additionally leaves participants feeling that they know more than they did prior to instruction. Chapter 6's Study 1 (Section 6.1) establishes this effect in classroom-based settings at two culturally distinct universities. Chapter 6's Study 2 (Section 6.2) provides an initial evaluation of the time-course of retention for the cognitive shifts that followed our mechanism intervention, and Chapter 6's Study 3 (Section 6.3) provides a successful demonstration of durable shifts with the general population online. Taken together, these experiments point the way towards effective curricula and on-line materials that can help bolster support to combat climate change. While we must certainly be sensitive to the needs, values, and interests of our target audiences, we should not reflexively steer away from science education. Indeed, the experiments in this dissertation provide empirical support for the notion that science education materials can have a meaningful and lasting impact on GW attitudes and beliefs. While this may not provide the complete behavioral solution we need for the United States (and the world), it seems likely that such shifts will make behavioral and policy changes far more tractable in the coming years.

Download or read book The Authoritarian Dynamic written by Karen Stenner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the basis for intolerance? This book addresses that question by developing a universal theory about what causes intolerance of difference in general, which includes racism, political intolerance (e.g. restriction of free speech), moral intolerance (e.g. homophobia, supporting censorship, opposing abortion) and punitiveness. It demonstrates that all these seemingly disparate attitudes are principally caused by just two factors: individuals' innate psychological predispositions to intolerance ('authoritarianism') interacting with changing conditions of societal threat.

Download or read book Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a concrete contribution towards a better understanding of climate change communication. It ultimately helps to catalyse the sort of cross-sectoral action needed to address the phenomenon of climate change and its many consequences. There is a perceived need to foster a better understanding of what climate change is, and to identify approaches, processes, methods and tools which may help to better communicate it. There is also a need for successful examples showing how communication can take place across society and stakeholders. Addressing the challenges in communicating to various audiences and providing a platform for reflections, it showcases lessons learnt from research, field projects and best practices in various settings in various different countries. The acquired knowledge can be adapted and applied to other situations.

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation Psychology written by Susan D. Clayton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First handbook to integrate environmental psychology and conservation psychology.

Download or read book Climate Change and the Role of Education written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insights into the educational dimensions of climate change and promotes measures to improve education in this context. It is widely believed that education can play a key role in finding global solutions to many problems related to climate change. Indeed, education as a process not only helps young people to better understand and address the impact of global warming, but also fosters better attitudes and behaviours to aid efforts towards mitigating climate change and adapting to a changing environment. But despite the central importance of education in relation to climate change, there is a paucity of publications on this theme. Against this background, the book focuses on the educational aspects of climate change and showcases examples of research, projects and other initiatives aimed at educating various audiences. It also provides a platform for reflections on the role education can play in fostering awareness on a changing climate. Presenting a wide range of valuable lessons learned, which can be adapted and replicated elsewhere, the book appeals to educators and practitioners alike.

Download or read book Psychology and Climate Change written by Susan Clayton and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses organizes and summarizes recent psychological research that relates to the issue of climate change. The book covers topics such as how people perceive and respond to climate change, how people understand and communicate about the issue, how it impacts individuals and communities, particularly vulnerable communities, and how individuals and communities can best prepare for and mitigate negative climate change impacts. It addresses the topic at multiple scales, from individuals to close social networks and communities. Further, it considers the role of social diversity in shaping vulnerability and reactions to climate change. Psychology and Climate Change describes the implications of psychological processes such as perceptions and motivations (e.g., risk perception, motivated cognition, denial), emotional responses, group identities, mental health and well-being, sense of place, and behavior (mitigation and adaptation). The book strives to engage diverse stakeholders, from multiple disciplines in addition to psychology, and at every level of decision making - individual, community, national, and international, to understand the ways in which human capabilities and tendencies can and should shape policy and action to address the urgent and very real issue of climate change. Examines the role of knowledge, norms, experience, and social context in climate change awareness and action Considers the role of identity threat, identity-based motivation, and belonging Presents a conceptual framework for classifying individual and household behavior Develops a model to explain environmentally sustainable behavior Draws on what we know about participation in collective action Describes ways to improve the effectiveness of climate change communication efforts Discusses the difference between acute climate change events and slowly-emerging changes on our mental health Addresses psychological stress and injury related to global climate change from an intersectional justice perspective Promotes individual and community resilience