A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Factors Influencing Environmental Actions

Freymeyer, Robert H.; Johnson, Barbara

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“…Meta-regression 22 tested explanations for this variation. We included three country-level predictors on theoretical grounds: (a) climate change contributions (greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy) 23 , indexing responsibility/culpability for climate change; (b) country wealth (GDP per capita), which has been associated with pro-environmental behavior 24,25 ; and (c) the proportion of females in each sample, as women are typically more pro-environmental 3,26,27 . The basic correlations for student samples were used to maximize the number of countries analyzed.…”

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Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world

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“…These studies reveal some support for sociopsychological explanations (Hadler and Haller 2011;Marquart-Pyatt 2012a;Oloffson and Ohmann 2006;Oreg and Katz-Gerro 2006) and mixed support for sociodemographic or positional factors (Freymeyer and Johnson 2010;Hunter, Hatch, and Johnson 2004;Marquart-Pyatt 2012a). Oloffson and Ohmann (2006) reveal stable effects for education and general beliefs, yet they also uncover differences among four affluent countries.…”

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“…Indeed, in a comprehensive review often cited in published works, Dunlap and Jones define environmental concern as "the degree to which people are aware of problems regarding the environment and support efforts to solve them and/or willingness to contribute personally to their solution" (2002: 485). One strategy for classifying recent research examining environmental topics and concerns across countries involves two domains: describing attitudes, on the one hand (Fairbrother 2012;Franzen 2003;Franzen and Meyer 2010;Franzen andVogl 2013a, 2103b;Gelissen 2007;Givens andJorgenson 2011, 2013;Haller and Hadler 2008;Harring 2013;Marquart-Pyatt 2007, 2008, 2012b, 2012cNawrotzki 2012;Xiao and Dunlap 2007) and behaviors, on the other (Freymeyer and Johnson 2010;Haller 2011, 2013;Hadler and Wohlkönig 2012;Hunter, Hatch, and Johnson 2004;Marquart-Pyatt 2012a;Oloffson and Ohmann 2006;Oreg and Katz-Gerro 2006).…”

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Marquart-Pyatt

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International Journal of Sociology

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“…The environment and political parties Many studies of environmental orientations focus on the attitudes of mass publics (Mertig and Dunlap 2001, Dunlap 2008, Freymeyer and Johnson 2010. This research on mass opinions is an important topic, but given the central role of parties in channeling the preferences of citizens into policies, we also would like to know how they position themselves on the environmental issue dimension for at least two reasons.…”

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“…Research indicates that citizens in affluent countries continue to be concerned with environmental issues -but we also know that this concern decreased somewhat in recent years (Freymeyer and Johnson 2010). Given the severity of the economic crisis, and the fact that political parties must design a fiscal rescue package to address enormous economic problems, the next sections examine the environmental and economic stances of parties between 2008 and 2013, and the degree to which environmental preferences of mass publics relate to the environmental stances of parties in 2013.…”

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