A new, valid measure of climate change understanding: associations with risk perception

Libarkin, Julie C.; Gold, Anne; Harris, Sara; McNeal, Karen S.; Bowles, Ryan P.

doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2279-y

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“…Adaptation can be constrained not only by technical difficulties or scientific disagreements, but also for the absence of political will and consensus, opposed cultural factors, lack of governance, confronted strategies, debated worldviews, discussed norms or incomprehensible behaviors. Among all these limiting factors, both farmers and the public coincide in highlighting how climate change has become a political contrivance [109,110]. According to Wolf et al [111] social and cultural values on climate change adaptation can play a key role when analyzing the perception of risk, what type of action could be addressed according to usefulness, or how vulnerability and resilience would be included in the management of natural and human activities.…”

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Evaluating Public Attitudes and Farmers’ Beliefs towards Climate Change Adaptation: Awareness, Perception, and Populism at European Level

Ricart

Cantos

Amorós

2018

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The scientific understanding of climate change is firmly established; it is occurring, it is primarily due to human activities, and it poses potentially serious risks to human and natural systems. Nevertheless, public understanding of this phenomenon varies widely among farmers and the public, the two-target audience of this paper. This paper introduces two research questions: (1) How climate change is perceived by public-farmers’ nexus; and (2) How perception and populism (as a thin-ideology moved by social forces) interact? In order to address both questions, we review insights from different sources (literature, research projects, and public opinion services) over the last 10 years. The results proved how public experience of climate change is interdependent with the belief that climate change is happening. What is also notable is that the greater the years of farmers’ farming experiences, the greater the percentage rate of their climate change awareness. Differences among farmers and public perceptions were also noted. Uncertainty, coupled with skepticism, the media, and political will, are common findings when asking to farmers and the public for the main weaknesses in adaptation to climate change. However, scientific consensus, meteorological data, barriers to adaptation, and the role of technology are subjects in which both differ.

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Evaluating Public Attitudes and Farmers’ Beliefs towards Climate Change Adaptation: Awareness, Perception, and Populism at European Level

Ricart

Cantos

Amorós

2018

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“…Although research studies have found that students with conservative or religious beliefs are less likely to accept evolution (Barnes et al, 2017), investigation of the role of similar beliefs in shaping ideas and acceptance of geologic evolution would be invaluable. Certainly, many studies have found that worldview impacts conceptions of climate change (Goebbert et al, 2012;Libarkin et al, 2018), and related studies in the context of other geologic phenomena would be worthwhile. We hope this paper serves as a starting point for many more studies at the intersection of geo-and biosciences and believe collaborations between the two disciplines within science education are vital for any future work.…”

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College Student Conceptions about Changes to Earth and Life over Time

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Conrad

2020

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“…Reflecting the practical significance of climate change, multiple studies have examined factors that influence climate change risk perception [2,[5][6][7][8][9][10]. These influences are categorized into four dimensions: cognitive factors (e.g., knowledge), experiential factors (e.g., affect and personal experience of extreme weather), socio-cultural factors (e.g., culture, values, and worldviews), and socio-demographic factors (e.g., education, age, income, and religion) [11].…”

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“…The magnitudes of these dimensions have also been examined. For example, a recent study reported that socio-cultural factors, such as biospheric environmental values and individualistic worldviews, play much greater roles than knowledge, a factor in the cognitive dimension, in guiding climate change risk perception [10].…”

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The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Familiarity, Effects on Children, and Fairness on Climate Change Risk Perception Moderated by Political Orientation

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2020

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Outrage factors are perceived characteristics of risk that provoke emotional responses and influence risk perception. Although several studies examined how multiple influences affect climate change risk perception, outrage factors have not been comprehensively assessed in the context of climate change risk perception. Using an online survey in South Korea (n = 592), we investigated outrage factors associated with climate change risk perception and whether political orientation moderates these outrage effects. We considered 11 of 20 outrage factors: voluntariness, controllability, familiarity, fairness, uncertainty, delayed effects, effects on children, trust, reversibility, personal stake, and human vs. natural origin. Factors that overlapped with the selected outrage factors or those that were not relevant to climate change were excluded. The survey revealed that the climate change risk perception of an individual increased when they perceived climate change to be relevant to their personal lives, when they felt unfamiliar with climate change, when they thought climate change would have a severe impact on children, or when they thought climate change would have unequal consequences. Moreover, respondents who identified as political conservatives were subject to a greater outrage effect of personal stake for climate change. The implications of the outrage effect on climate change risk perception and the greater vulnerability of conservatives to outrage effect are discussed.

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A new, valid measure of climate change understanding: associations with risk perception

Cited by 58 publications

References 38 publications

Evaluating Public Attitudes and Farmers’ Beliefs towards Climate Change Adaptation: Awareness, Perception, and Populism at European Level

Evaluating Public Attitudes and Farmers’ Beliefs towards Climate Change Adaptation: Awareness, Perception, and Populism at European Level

College Student Conceptions about Changes to Earth and Life over Time

The Outrage Effect of Personal Stake, Familiarity, Effects on Children, and Fairness on Climate Change Risk Perception Moderated by Political Orientation

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