Analysis of the Impact of Values and Perception on Climate Change Skepticism and Its Implication for Public Policy

Wang, Jaesun; Kim, Seoyong

doi:10.3390/cli6040099

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“…Second, since we focused only on perceptions and attitudes, sets of values were dismissed. Since there are various values and cultures [84][85][86], the role of values in payment and action intentions needs to be examined. Third, we did not analyze the contextual or communicational dimensions or the relationships between various perceptions [87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94].…”

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Analyzing the Role of Resource Factors in Citizens’ Intention to Pay for and Participate in Disaster Management

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This study aimed to analyze how resource variables (health status, economic affordability, social network, social capital, and neighborhood environment) influence citizens’ intention to pay for and participate in disaster management and safety activities. We compared four psychometric paradigm variables with five resource variables and analyzed how the latter moderate the relationships of the perception variables with intention to pay and to participate. A regression analysis revealed that willingness to pay was mainly explained by trust, followed by social capital, economic affordability, perceived risk, and experience, respectively. Participation was explained by knowledge, social capital, age, trust, and social network, respectively. Gender, trust, and social capital had an influence both on willingness to pay and to participate. Perceived risk, knowledge, and trust had a moderating effect on willingness to pay, but this effect depended on the quality of the neighborhood environment. Trust, knowledge, and stigma had a moderating effect on participation intention, but this effect depended on social capital and the neighborhood environment.

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“…Value variables such as ideology, environmentalism, and post-materialism should be considered in future research. Kim [74], Wang & Kim [75], Kim & Kim [76] well showed the power of cultural bias on policy preference. On the other hand, online variables such as cyber identity, addiction, and interaction in cyberspace should be used to composite the tested model.…”

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Searching for New Directions for Energy Policy: Testing the Cross-Effect of Risk Perception and Cyberspace Factors on Online/Offline Opposition to Nuclear Energy in South Korea

Wang

Kim

2019

Sustainability

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In the internet age, a considerable amount of information about risk events and objects is shared in cyberspace. Since online and offline spaces are not discrete, there is a cross-effect in which perceptual or attitudinal factors in cyberspace influence offline actions, while offline attitudes affect online actions. However, few studies have examined this cross-effect. In the present study, the intention to engage in online or offline behaviors opposing nuclear energy was the dependent variable. The independent variables included risk perception factors (i.e., perceived risk, perceived benefit, trust, knowledge, and stigma) in the risk perception paradigm, and cyber factors (i.e., self-efficacy in cyberspace, involvement on the internet, trust in cyberspace, conformity to online opinion, and belief in online rumors) in the cyberpsychology paradigm. Our findings offer evidence for the cross-effect of online or offline predictors on online/offline behaviors opposing nuclear energy. All the variables in the cyberspace paradigm influenced offline opposition, while those in the risk perception paradigm affected online opposition. Moreover, the five online-related risk perception variables played a significant role in moderating the relationships of predictors in the risk perception paradigm with offline opposition.

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“…Declines in public involvement were, for example, observed in the late 2000s and around the financial crisis of 2008, when people were concerned with what might have been considered more pressing issues of the day. Wang and Kim [65] found out in their study on Korea that climate change skepticism also depended on factors such as religiosity, hierarchy, gender, age, education level, and social class. To add to this, a number of media outlets report false or confusing information related to climate change, usually serving private or political interests, creating mistrust in the science of climate change.…”

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Role of Social Media as a Soft Power Tool in Raising Public Awareness and Engagement in Addressing Climate Change

Mavrodieva

Rachman

Harahap

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Climate change has been one of the most debated topics in the past few decades, but a number of challenges have hindered the development of robust policies and strategies by nations. At the same time, social media platforms-such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook-have given the opportunity for the general public to share opinions and engage with the issue of climate change like never before. This phenomenon is considered to be a new form of soft power which can provide input into the discussion and possibly affect the current international political mechanisms. The present paper aims to (1) define the forms and characteristics of social media as a soft power method, (2) analyze its influence on the awareness of societies, and (3) assess if increased public awareness could influence the official political and policy processes. In order to assess if social media has influence on people's relative awareness, we have focused on analyzing the links between a few highly visible climate change related events and the trends in people's searches on the Internet in connection to those events. The study finds that even though it is difficult to assess the effects of social media as a soft power tool with certainty, there are visible links between social media and changing public perceptions, with the possibility of public opinion influencing political decision-making.

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Analysis of the Impact of Values and Perception on Climate Change Skepticism and Its Implication for Public Policy

Cited by 47 publications

References 60 publications

Analyzing the Role of Resource Factors in Citizens’ Intention to Pay for and Participate in Disaster Management

Analyzing the Role of Resource Factors in Citizens’ Intention to Pay for and Participate in Disaster Management

Searching for New Directions for Energy Policy: Testing the Cross-Effect of Risk Perception and Cyberspace Factors on Online/Offline Opposition to Nuclear Energy in South Korea

Role of Social Media as a Soft Power Tool in Raising Public Awareness and Engagement in Addressing Climate Change

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