Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy Support

Zahran, Sammy; Brody, Samuel D.; Grover, Himanshu; Vedlitz, Arnold

doi:10.1080/08941920600835528

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“…Personal threat of climate change has also been linked to support for a range of policies to address the issue (e.g., Brody et al 2008;Zahran et al 2006). In addition to the correlational research in support of this view, a recent experimental study by Scannell and Gifford (2013) found that providing individuals with local climate information-and thus highlighting personal threat-increased their engagement with the issue.…”

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Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Schoenefeld

McCauley

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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In the current research, we experimentally examined the effect of providing local or global information about the impacts of climate change on individuals' perceived importance of climate change and on their willingness to take action to address it, including policy support. We examined these relationships in the context of individuals' general value orientations. Our findings, from 99 US residents, suggest that different kinds of climate information (local, global, or none) interact with values vis-à-vis our dependent variables. Specifically, while self-transcendent values predict perceived importance and pro-environmental behavior across all three information conditions, the effect on policy support is less clear. Furthermore, we detected a Breactance effect^where individuals with self-enhancing values who read local information thought that climate change was less important and were less willing to engage in pro-environmental behavior and support policy than self-enhancing individuals in the other information conditions. These results suggest that policy makers and public communicators may want to be cognizant of their audience's general value orientation. Local information may not only be ineffective but may also prove counterproductive with individuals whose value orientations are more self-enhancing than self-transcendent.

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Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Schoenefeld

McCauley

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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“…Environmental risks have also helped to explain the adoption of cover crops, no-till, and increased use of tile drainage in the US Midwest (e.g., Morton et al 2015). Generally, perceived risks have a strong and positive relationship with support for public responses and individual behavioral intentions to address climate change impacts (O'Connor et al 1999;Zahran et al 2006;Arbuckle et al 2013b;Hyland et al 2015). Farmers also employ a number of risk management strategies to mitigate both weather-related and financial risks associated with their agricultural production systems.…”

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What would farmers do? Adaptation intentions under a Corn Belt climate change scenario

2016

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This paper examines farmer intentions to adapt to global climate change by analyzing responses to a climate change scenario presented in a survey given to largescale farmers (n = 4778) across the US Corn Belt in 2012. Adaptive strategies are evaluated in the context of decision making and farmers' intention to increase their use of three production practices promoted across the Corn Belt: no-till farming, cover crops, and tile drainage. This paper also provides a novel conceptual framework that bridges a typology of adaptation with concepts that help predict intentionality in behavior change models. This conceptual framework was developed to facilitate examination of adaptive decision making in the context of agriculture. This research effort examines key factors that influence farmers' intentions to increase their use of the practices evaluated given a climate change scenario. Twenty-two covariates are examined across three models developed for no-till farming, cover crops, and tile drainage. Findings highlight that farmers who believed they should adjust their practices to protect their farm from the negative impacts of increased weather variability were more likely to indicate that they would increase their use of each of the practices in response to climate change. Additionally, visiting with other farmers to observe their practices was positively associated with farmers' intentions to increase their use of the adaptive strategies examined. Farmers who were currently using no-till farming, cover crops, and tile drainage were also more likely to plan to increase their use of these practices in response to increased weather variability associated with climate change. However, farmers who reported high levels of confidence in their current practices were less likely to plan on changing their use of these practices in response to climatic changes.

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“…Furthermore, there is some evidence that experience of an ecological disaster, for example an oil spill, or an environmental problem, for example drought, can impact environmental views of the local community affected 2,24,25 . So far, there is little and mixed evidence on whether living in a place physically vulnerable to climate change impacts, or with experiences that could be attributable to climate change, leads to changes in perceptions of climate change and in support for related policies on mitigation or adaptation 2,4 . In relation to flooding specifically, existing data link flood experiences to a heightened awareness of flood risks 26 ; however, such experiences have not previously been found to relate to perceptions of, or related action on, climate change.…”

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Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. One of the reasons that people may not take action to mitigate climate change is that they lack first-hand experience of its potential consequences. From this perspective, individuals who have direct experience of phenomena that may be linked to climate change would be more likely to be concerned by the issue and thus more inclined to undertake sustainable behaviours. So far, the evidence available to test this hypothesis is limited, and in part contradictory 1-4 . Here we use national survey data collected from 1,822 individuals across the UK in 2010, to examine the links between direct flooding experience, perceptions of climate change and preparedness to reduce energy use. We show that those who report experience of flooding express more concern over climate change, see it as less uncertain and feel more confident that their actions will have an effect on climate change. Importantly, these perceptual differences also translate into a greater willingness to save energy to mitigate climate change. Highlighting links between local weather events and climate change is therefore likely to be a useful strategy for increasing concern and action.

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Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy Support

Cited by 255 publications

References 69 publications

Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

What would farmers do? Adaptation intentions under a Corn Belt climate change scenario

Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience

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