Article
Environmental Sciences
Yiannis Kountouris
Summary: This paper examines the influence of political system experience on individuals' concern for climate change consequences, finding that experience with the East German political system has a lasting negative effect on climate change concern more than 20 years after reunification. Results suggest that the impact of political institutions on climate change attitudes and policy adoption can persist long after they have been replaced.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Migle Jakucionyte-Skodiene, Genovaite Liobikiene
Summary: This study examined the relationship between climate change concerns, personal responsibility, and actions related to climate change mitigation in EU countries. Economic development level significantly affects personal responsibility and the number of actions related to climate change mitigation, but not climate change concerns. Hofstede's cultural dimensions influence climate change concerns, responsibility, and the number of actions differently.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Economics
Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier, Jonathan Ostry
Summary: Using data on governmental popular support and the OECD's Environmental Stringency Index, this study finds that Climate Change Policies (CCPs) are not necessarily politically costly, as policy design and socioeconomic factors play important roles. Market-based policies, high oil prices, election cycles, and reliance on non-green energy sources are associated with higher political costs. Moreover, high inequality and inadequate social insurance exacerbate the regressivity of CCPs, resulting in political costs. These findings are robust to various sensitivity analyses.
Article
Environmental Studies
Md Golam Mortoja, Tan Yigitcanlar
Summary: This study examines the relationship between climate change belief and political orientations, finding that public stances on climate risk knowledge can be rigid and divided into two main groups. The study also reveals that the 'least concerned/mostly disagreed group' denies the existence of anthropogenic climate change and their climate risk concerns do not significantly influence their voting decisions. These insights can help bridge the knowledge gaps between climate risk believers and deniers, informing decision-makers in addressing climate risks and land use decisions.
Article
Ecology
Stefan Drews, Ivan Savin, Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
Summary: The study finds that while COVID-19 has led to a decrease in public concern for climate change, acceptance of most climate policies has increased. Adverse health experiences and negative economic experiences, except for unemployment, are unrelated to these changes. Additionally, the study shows that people who believe climate change contributed to the COVID-19 outbreak have higher climate concern and policy acceptance, while higher policy acceptance is associated with a positive opinion of the government's response to the pandemic. Furthermore, citizens have favorable attitudes towards a carbon tax with revenues used to compensate for COVID-19-related expenditures.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Giovanni Benelli, Andre B. B. Wilke, Jeffrey R. Bloomquist, Nicolas Desneux, John C. Beier
Summary: Studying the combined effect of global warming and insecticide exposure on the spread of mosquito-borne diseases is crucial and more resources should be allocated to this research. It is particularly important to understand how different vector species cope with these stressors, and how they may impact the activity of mosquito biocontrol agents.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Transportation
Arora Arnadottir, Michal Czepkiewicz, Jukka Heinonen
Summary: The study explores how urbanites justify their international air travel despite climate change awareness, with themes such as shifting responsibility, compensatory behaviors, and lack of knowledge. Policy suggestions include kerosene tax, mandatory carbon offsetting, and emphasizing other sources of well-being to challenge the social norm around frequent travel. It is crucial to better communicate the specific climate impacts of flights and work towards global emission reductions to keep warming below 1.5 degrees.
TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIETY
(2021)
Review
Engineering, Environmental
Inez Harker-Schuch, Steven Lade, Franklin Mills, Rebecca Colvin
Summary: Research findings show that 12-13 year old secondary school students in Austria and Australia have high levels of concern about climate change, believing that it is probably or definitely something to worry about, caused by humans, and happening now. Their attitudes differ from those of adults, suggesting that socio-cultural worldview may have less influence on this age group than on adults.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Simplice A. Asongu, Omang O. Messono, Keyanfe T. J. Guttemberg
Summary: The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of women's political empowerment on vulnerability to climate change in 169 countries for the period 1995-2017. The empirical evidence shows that the political empowerment of women, as well as its components, reduce vulnerability to climate change. This effect is most pronounced in upper middle income, Latin American, small and fragile countries. Furthermore, public spending on education, governance effectiveness, and education serve as the channels through which women's political empowerment affects vulnerability to climate change.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Joshua M. Carlson, Lin Fang, Caleb Coughtry-Carpenter, John Foley
Summary: Climate change is a pressing issue that captures attention, but assessing individual differences in attention processing of climate change information using reaction time-based measures is unreliable. Measures of attentional bias based on reaction time and variability have low reliability and poor predictive validity, making them unsuitable for capturing individual differences in attention to climate change information.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zoltan Grunhut, Viktor Varju, Akos Bodor
Summary: The relationship between trust and environmental awareness in motivating pro-climate behavior is not consistent according to empirical research. This study, based on data analysis from a large-scale representative survey conducted in Hungary in June-July 2022, provides insights into the influence of individual trust on pro-climate action. The results show that most respondents, despite being concerned about climate change, cannot be considered pro-climate actors. They express mistrust towards others, indicating that protecting the climate and taking action against climate change is not seen as important by others.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Bruce Tranter
Summary: National data from the 2018 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows that knowledge of climate change is positively associated with the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, but political party identification can influence climate knowledge scales. Climate skeptics tend to score lower on climate knowledge scales, but have inflated confidence in their factual knowledge.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Md. Golam Mortoja, Tan Yigitcanlar
Summary: The study finds that climate risk perception is common in the Australian context regardless of political stances, with slightly higher perception among left-leaning individuals. Additionally, peri-urbanization triggered climate risks are not distinctly perceived by the respondents.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Demetra Kyprianou, Iris Charalambidou, Oluwaseun Famojuro, Hongmei Wang, Dejun Su, Paraskevi A. Farazi
Summary: There is a lack of knowledge and preventive practices regarding melanoma among the Cypriot population. Targeted education should be provided to individuals with lower education levels and teenagers, in order to promote early adoption of protective behaviors against melanoma.
Article
Communication
Ran Duan, K. J. Hepworth, Kerri Jean Ormerod, Chelsea Canon
Summary: This study uses Q methodology to identify different responses to wildfire imagery and climate change concern, revealing three main perspectives on what images individuals are most concerned about. The findings suggest that there is variation in the level of concern for different types of images, including catastrophic destruction, smokescapes, human or animal suffering, as well as scenes of aid and support and officials' rescue meetings. These results contribute to the literature on visual communication of climate change and have implications for selecting images that appeal to diverse perspectives in the wider public.
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
(2021)
