2021
DOI: 10.1177/2378023121992934
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Disrupting the Complacency: Disaster Experience and Emergent Environmentalism

Abstract: As climate change intensifies, scholars are beginning to ask whether firsthand experience with disaster will cause complacent people to develop greater environmental concern and engage in more proenvironmental behaviors. Will the disruption caused by experiencing a local environmental disaster be enough to motivate residents to change their values and behaviors? The aim of this study is to answer that question by analyzing qualitative interview data collected from 40 residents of Calgary, Alberta, who survived… Show more

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“…As evidenced in the empirical work discussed above (Haney 2021;Haney and McDonald-Harker 2017;McDonald-Harker, Bassi, and Haney 2021), the 2013 Southern Alberta Flood left many people wondering what they did not know about environmental problems and climate change -a finding consistent with research in other geographic contexts demonstrating how first-hand experience of negative environmental events decreases things like conspiracy ideation among climate change skeptics (Sarathchandra and Haltinner 2020). The flood exposed gaps in their knowledge and changed their views.…”
Section: Settingmentioning
confidence: 58%
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“…As evidenced in the empirical work discussed above (Haney 2021;Haney and McDonald-Harker 2017;McDonald-Harker, Bassi, and Haney 2021), the 2013 Southern Alberta Flood left many people wondering what they did not know about environmental problems and climate change -a finding consistent with research in other geographic contexts demonstrating how first-hand experience of negative environmental events decreases things like conspiracy ideation among climate change skeptics (Sarathchandra and Haltinner 2020). The flood exposed gaps in their knowledge and changed their views.…”
Section: Settingmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…The findings discussed above reveal how Albertans living in the economic hub of Canada's tar sands feel about the scientific consensus on climate change and about the attendant work of scientists. Though an emerging body of work suggests that flood-affected Albertans have shifted their environmental views somewhat since the 2013 flood (Haney 2021;Haney and McDonald-Harker 2017;McDonald-Harker, Bassi, and Haney 2021), prior research had not yet examined whether residents in this oil-producing region are accepting of the consensus and trusting of scientists after going through such an environmental disaster.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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