Download or read book Public Risk Perception of Climate Change and Mitigation Decisions The Role of Knowledge and Values Across Countries written by Jing Shi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Perception of Climate Change written by Bjoern Hagen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers. So far scientists and the media have failed to successfully communicate the urgency of the climate change situation in such a way that long-term, comprehensive, and legally binding policy commitments are being made on the national and international level. This book examines the way the public processes information, how they perceive threats and other perceptual factors that have a significant effect on how and to what degree climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies are supported. Understanding public risk perception plays a vital role in communicating the challenges of global climate change. Using a diverse range of international case studies, this book explores the nature of public perceptions of climate change and identifies the perception factors which have a significant impact on the public’s willingness to support global climate change policies or commit to behavioral changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve urban resiliency. The comparative study of social and cultural factors, beliefs, attitudes and trust provides an international overview of best practices regarding the design, implementation and generation of public support for climate change policies at a global level. Offering valuable insight into climate change and risk communication, the book should be of interest to students and scholars of environment studies, politics, urban planning, and media and cultural studies.

Download or read book Dynamics of Public Risk Perception and Media Coverage written by Anne-Kathrin Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smoking written by Paul Slovic and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firms' marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.

Download or read book The Role of Values Norms and Media Use in Public Perceptions of Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While climate change has been on media and political agendas for nearly three decades, it has resulted in varying levels of public concern and ineffectual response and policy. The disparity between the scientific consensus about climate change and public responsiveness indicates a need to understand the human dimensions of climate change, in addition to the scientific aspects. The focus of this dissertation is how values, cultural and contextual factors, and normative beliefs influence public perceptions of climate change. This research is based on three aspects of the human dimensions of climate change: (1) how contextual factors impact public opinion cross-nationally, (2) the effect of mass media, and (3) the role of motivated reasoning in shaping perceptions. In the first study, I conduct a cross-national analysis of individuals' values, knowledge, and ideology and countries' national wealth, vulnerability, and climate change performance on individual perceptions of this issue, using multilevel modeling to account for the lack of independence between citizens residing within a country. In the second study, I move past the focus in empirical research on climate change skepticism to assess how Americans perceive of mitigation and adaptation policies distinctively. I consider the impact of individuals' media use, knowledge, values, and norms on support for these different policies. In the third study, I analyze how values, beliefs, and media use impact Americans' normative beliefs about Chinese and German people's climate change concern. I hypothesize that these impressions, shaped by media, result in probably inaccurate beliefs about others' concern. I conclude the dissertation by providing a summary of the key findings in each of the three studies and the implications for communication research, social science methods, and public policy. I argue that research on public attitudes toward and the environment should utilize multilevel analysis to account for the lack of independence between people living in societies with their own sets of environmental risks and policies. Lastly, I discuss how there is no 'one size fits all' model for public attitudes toward climate change and make the case for more nuanced exploration of the social dynamics relevant to different facets of this issue.

Download or read book Facilitating Climate Change Responses written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-11-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social sciences in addressing the challenges of global climate change, called on the National Research Council to organize two workshops to showcase some of the decision-relevant contributions that these sciences have already made and can advance with future efforts. The workshops focused on two broad areas: (1) mitigation (behavioral elements of a strategy to reduce the net future human influence on climate) and (2) adaptation (behavioral and social determinants of societal capacity to minimize the damage from climate changes that are not avoided). Facilitating Climate Change Responses documents the information presented in the workshop presentations and discussions. This material illustrates some of the ways the behavioral and social sciences can contribute to the new era of climate research.

Download or read book Public Perceptions of Climate Mitigation Policies written by Ms. Era Dabla-Norris and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building public support for climate mitigation is a key prerequisite to making meaningful strides toward implementing climate mitigation policies and achieving decarbonization. Using nationally representative individual-level surveys for 28 countries, this note sheds light on the individual characteristics and beliefs associated with climate risk perceptions and preferences for climate policies.

Download or read book Public Perceptions of Climate Change written by Bjoern Hagen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change (GCC) is among the most important issues of the 21st century. Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change are some of the salient local and regional challenges scientists, decision makers, and the general public face today and will be in the near future. However, designed adaptation and mitigation strategies do not guarantee success in coping with global climate change. Despite the robust and convincing body for anthropogenic global climate change research and science there is still a significant gap between the recommendations provided by the scientific community and the actual actions by the public and policy makers. In order to design, implement, and generate sufficient public support for policies and planning interventions at the national and international level, it is necessary to have a good understanding of the public's perceptions regarding GCC. Based on survey research in nine countries, the purpose of this study is two-fold: First, to understand the nature of public perceptions of global climate change in different countries; and secondly to identi-fy perception factors which have a significant impact on the public's willingness to sup-port GCC policies or commit to behavioral changes to reduce GHG emissions. Factors such as trust in GCC information which need to be considered in future climate change communication efforts are also dealt with in this dissertation. This study has identified several aspects that need to be considered in future communication programs. GCC is characterized by high uncertainties, unfamiliar risks, and other characteristics of hazards which make personal connections, responsibility and engagement difficult. Communication efforts need to acknowledge these obstacles, build up trust and motivate the public to be more engaged in reducing GCC by emphasizing the multiple benefits of many policies outside of just reducing GCC. Levels of skepticism among the public towards the reality of GCC as well as the trustworthiness and sufficien-cy of the scientific findings varies by country. Thus, communicators need to be aware of their audience in order to decide how educational their program needs to be.

Download or read book Public Opinion on Climate Change written by Courtney Brown and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existing research shows that two factors stand out as the best predictors of peoples stated intention to take action against climate change: accurate understanding of the scientific processes by which the Earth warms, and a perception that the risks associated with its consequences are of higher magnitude. This research explores whether a similar but reverse relationship exists between these factors and the development of passivity or resignation in the face of the massive environmental challenge of climate change. It finds that while accurate knowledge and high risk are able to predict support for policy action, inaccurate knowledge and low risk perceptions also contribute significantly to the specific non-action sentiment of passivity.

Download or read book Values in Climate Policy written by David Morrow and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children born today in the Maldives may someday have to abandon their homeland. Rising seas, caused by climate change, could swallow most of their tiny island nation within their lifetime. Their fate symbolizes the double inequity at the heart of climate change: those who have contributed the least to climate change will suffer the most from it. All is not lost, however. The scale and impact of climate change depends on the policies that people choose. How quickly will we eliminate our greenhouse gas emissions? How will we do it? Who will pay for it? What will we protect through adaptation? How will we weigh the fortunes of future generations and the natural world against our own? Answers to questions like these reflect a constellation of value judgments that deserve close scrutiny. In addition to providing essential background on the science, economics, and politics of climate change, this book explores the values at stake in climate policy with the aim of shrinking the gap between climate ethics and climate policy.

Download or read book Climate Change and Individual Decision Making written by Francesca Pongiglione and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, risk perception, as it relates to an individual's direct experience of climate change and self-interest, either monetary or status-driven. Drawing on a variety of sources in public policy, psychology, and economics, I examine the role of these concepts in inducing or discouraging pro-environmental behavior. Past researches have often overemphasized the weight of just one of those variables in the decision making. I argue, instead, that none of them alone is capable of bringing about the behavioral change required by the environmental crisis. Evidence shows that increasing the public's scientific knowledge of climate change cannot unilaterally bring about a strong behavioral change. The same can be noticed even when knowledge is joined by risk-perception: deep psychological mechanisms may steer people towards inaction and apathy, despite their direct experience of the detrimental effects of climate change on their lives. Focusing on self-interest alone is similarly unable to induce pro-environmental behavior, due to a host of psychological factors. Instead, in all of the above cases an important missing ingredient may be found in providing the public with locally contextualized procedural knowledge in order to translate its knowledge and concern into action. The importance of this kind of practical knowledge has solid empirical and theoretical underpinnings, and is often overlooked in the climate-change debate that tends to focus on more high-level issues. Yet, for all its essential simplicity, it may carry important public-policy implications.

Download or read book Social Process of Environmental Risk Perception Preferences of Risk Management and Public Participation in Decision Making written by Hongxia Duan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This cross-cultural study between China and the U.S. examined how people's perceptions of environmental risk, preferences in risk management, and perspectives of participatory decision processes and quality vary within the different social, cultural, and political systems. A structural equation model (SEM) with social trust, social value, and risk experience was constructed to explore social processes of environmental risk perceptions and preferences in risk management. A 2'2 experiment with four decision scenarios was designed to examine people's perspectives of successful participatory decision processes and quality. College students from The Ohio State University (n=240) in the U.S. and Beijing Normal University (n=280) in China were participants in the research. The results indicated that both the Americans and Chinese considered that good decision quality depends on effective public input in the decision, good participation process and outcome, and outcome was thought to be the most important factor to affect their evaluation of the decision quality. The Chinese were more concerned about environmental risks, and they perceived the environmental issues to be more risky to health, to the environment, and to economic development in China than Americans. Both groups were less likely to support the policies that require them to participate financially, such as paying increased taxes on gasoline. The respondents from the two cultures desired transparent communication processes and were more likely to support educational strategies to help people change behavior to reduce environment. However, there were significant differences between the Chinese and Americans about support for or opposition to a specific risk management strategy. For the structural equation model, the American data showed that social trust, social value, and risk experience had significant impacts on perception of environmental risks, and risk experience, social value, and risk perception significantly impacted preferences in risk management for the American data. The Chinese data indicated that social value and risk experience had significant impacts on risk perception and social trust predicted preference in risk management significantly. The differences between the two nations about perception of environmental risks, preference in risk management, and decision quality were discussed in political systems, cultural origins, and social reality and situations.

Download or read book America s Climate Choices written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is occurring. It is very likely caused by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems. And these emissions continue to increase, which will result in further change and greater risks. America's Climate Choices makes the case that the environmental, economic, and humanitarian risks posed by climate change indicate a pressing need for substantial action now to limit the magnitude of climate change and to prepare for adapting to its impacts. Although there is some uncertainty about future risk, acting now will reduce the risks posed by climate change and the pressure to make larger, more rapid, and potentially more expensive reductions later. Most actions taken to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts are common sense investments that will offer protection against natural climate variations and extreme events. In addition, crucial investment decisions made now about equipment and infrastructure can "lock in" commitments to greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. Finally, while it may be possible to scale back or reverse many responses to climate change, it is difficult or impossible to "undo" climate change, once manifested. Current efforts of local, state, and private-sector actors are important, but not likely to yield progress comparable to what could be achieved with the addition of strong federal policies that establish coherent national goals and incentives, and that promote strong U.S. engagement in international-level response efforts. The inherent complexities and uncertainties of climate change are best met by applying an iterative risk management framework and making efforts to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions; prepare for adapting to impacts; invest in scientific research, technology development, and information systems; and facilitate engagement between scientific and technical experts and the many types of stakeholders making America's climate choices.

Download or read book The Tragedy of the Risk Perception Commons written by Dan M. Kahan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones. More importantly, greater scientific literacy and numeracy were associated with greater cultural polarization: Respondents predisposed by their values to dismiss climate change evidence became more dismissive, and those predisposed by their values to credit such evidence more concerned, as science literacy and numeracy increased. We suggest that this evidence reflects a conflict between two levels of rationality: The individual level, which is characterized by citizens' effective use of their knowledge and reasoning capacities to form risk perceptions that express their cultural commitments; and the collective level, which is characterized by citizens' failure to converge on the best available scientific evidence on how to promote their common welfare. Dispelling this, “tragedy of the risk-perception commons,” we argue, should be understood as the central aim of the science of science communication.

Download or read book Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance written by Chris Methmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped with a common interpretive tool-kit, the authors examine different issue-areas and excavate the contours of an overall pattern – the depoliticisation of climate governance. It is this concept which represents the overarching theme connecting the different contributions, addressing issues such as how the securitization of climate change conceals its socio-economic roots; how highly political decisions and value-judgements are couched in the terms of science; how the reframing of climate change as a matter of economic calculation and investment narrows the scope of political action; and how the prevailing concentration on technological solutions to climate change turns it into a mere administrative issue to be tackled by experts. Highlighting the depoliticisation of highly political issues provides a means to bring the political back into one of the most important issue areas of 21st century world politics. The editors have assembled a series of 14 interpretive inquiries into discourses of global climate governance which aim to flesh out an interpretive methodology, demonstrating the value it offers to those seeking to achieve a better understanding of global climate governance. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, political theory and climate change.

Download or read book Climate Change Preferences and Values written by Kim Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines the role of fundamental beliefs in the environment, anthropocentrism, and the economy in public preferences toward policies aimed at mitigating the risks of climate change as well as the heterogeneity in those beliefs. We argue that citizens hold multiple considerations toward policies related to global warming and that rather than making policy choices more difficult leading to attitudinal ambivalence, these various beliefs reduce the response variability around individual preferences. Further, we argue that individuals with more knowledge about the causes and consequences of global warming should have more variance around their policy preferences. The analysis of a national telephone survey related to climate change reveals that 1) many people are generally supportive of policies to reduce the risks of global warming 2) the amount of support varies according to specific policy proposals 3) policy preferences are mostly of function of beliefs toward the environment and the economy and subjective risk perceptions and 4) the variation around individual policy preferences decreases among individuals that simultaneously hold competing values and expectations toward the environment, the economy, and human dominance over nature. These results indicate that multiple considerations do not necessarily lead to ambivalence among public preferences for policies to reduce the risks of climate change. In addition, the results show that individuals with more knowledge about the causes and consequences of climate change are generally more supportive of policies to limit the risks of global warming, but also have more variation around those preferences.

Download or read book The Oxford encyclopedia of climate change communication written by Matthew C. Nisbet and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through a comprehensive collection of articles, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication explores the origin and evolution of our understanding of climate change as it is presented in communication and media. Taking a multifaceted approach, the encyclopedia offers a scholarly examination of the effects of climate change communication on public opinion and policy decisions; journalistic coverage and media portrayals of climate change; communication strategies and campaigns; and the implications of effective communication, including those of outreach and advocacy efforts. Additionally, the encyclopedia reviews climate change communication research methods and approaches. Global in breadth and deeply resourced, the work serves as an essential source of perspective on all aspects of this important area of scholarship"--