Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers

Bain, Paul G.; Hornsey, Matthew J.; Bongiorno, Renata; Jeffries, Carla

doi:10.1038/nclimate1636

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“…Coupling, for example, values around security or freedom with self-transcending values like concern for the welfare of others is one possible way of resolving the tension between the social marketing and 'common cause' approaches to campaigning, and making best use of the available academic evidence. 103,104 In addition, it is now well established that communication strategies based on 'one way' message-oriented communication tend to be ineffective at fostering significant and sustained behavioral engagement 87,105,106 They may also promote polarized views through 'biased assimilation' of the message content by opposing attitudinal groups. 107 The habits and social practices of individuals and groups provide the context in which valuebased messages are received, yet the vast majority of public communication around climate change has involved individuals, and not much consideration of the social context.…”

Section: Values and The Framing Of Campaigns About Climate Changementioning

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Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values

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2014

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A long history of interdisciplinary research highlights the powerful role that human values play in shaping individuals' engagement with environmental issues. That certain values are supportive of proenvironmental orientation and behavior is now well established. But as the challenge of communicating the risks of climate change has grown increasingly urgent, there has been a rise in interest around how values shape public engagement with this issue. In the current paper, we review the growing body of work that explores the role of human values (and the closely related concept of cultural worldviews) in public engagement with climate change. Following a brief conceptual overview of values and their relationship to environmental engagement in general, we then provide a review of the literature linking value-orientations and engagement with climate change. We also review both academic and 'gray' literature from civil society organizations that has focused on how public messages about climate change should be framed, and discuss the significance of research on human values for climate change communication strategies.

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Section: Values and The Framing Of Campaigns About Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values

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Markowitz

Pidgeon

2014

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Wetland restoration is one method with which northern countries could aim to meet their GHG targets under the Kyoto Protocol (Bain, Hornsey, Bongiorno, & Jeffries, 2012). In contrast to drainage, restoration raises the WT, increases water saturation, and thus may increase CH 4 emissions (Saarino, Winiwarter, & Leitao, 2009).…”

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Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options

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Northern peatlands constitute a significant source of atmospheric methane (CH 4). However, management of undisturbed peatlands, as well as the restoration of disturbed peatlands, will alter the exchange of CH 4 with the atmosphere. The aim of this systematic review and meta‐analysis was to collate and analyze published studies to improve our understanding of the factors that control CH 4 emissions and the impacts of management on the gas flux from northern (latitude 40° to 70°N) peatlands. The analysis includes a total of 87 studies reporting measurements of CH 4 emissions taken at 186 sites covering different countries, peatland types, and management systems. Results show that CH 4 emissions from natural northern peatlands are highly variable with a 95% CI of 7.6–15.7 g C m−2 year−1 for the mean and 3.3–6.3 g C m−2 year−1 for the median. The overall annual average (mean ± SD) is 12 ± 21 g C m−2 year−1 with the highest emissions from fen ecosystems. Methane emissions from natural peatlands are mainly controlled by water table (WT) depth, plant community composition, and soil pH. Although mean annual air temperature is not a good predictor of CH 4 emissions by itself, the interaction between temperature, plant community cover, WT depth, and soil pH is important. According to short‐term forecasts of climate change, these complex interactions will be the main determinant of CH 4 emissions from northern peatlands. Drainage significantly (p < .05) reduces CH 4 emissions to the atmosphere, on average by 84%. Restoration of drained peatlands by rewetting or vegetation/rewetting increases CH 4 emissions on average by 46% compared to the original premanagement CH 4 fluxes. However, to fully evaluate the net effect of management practice on the greenhouse gas balance from high latitude peatlands, both net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and carbon exports need to be considered.

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“…Other examples of social co-benefits can be seen in public health research that has emphasised that resilience projects, aimed towards improving preparedness for natural disasters, can enhance social capital by better connecting citizens to social networks and encouraging membership of community forums (Cheng & Berry, 2013: 307). Finally, a slightly more ambiguous social co-benefit has been explored by Bain et al (2012), Bain et al (2013) and Bain et al (2016) within research that has found that "motivations to act on climate change were clearly related to beliefs about co-benefits, especially … building a more caring and moral community." This co-benefit is socialpsychological in nature, reflecting a means of self-identification through which individuals perceive themselves to be people who want to part of an ethical society which functions in a benevolent manner (Bain et al 2016: 600).…”

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Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage?

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Climate change research relating to “co‐benefits” suggests that the facilitation of social‐welfare outcomes through environmental policy offers a powerful means of incentivising climate change action. Concerns about social‐welfare, however, are often used to undermine climate change policies, typically through political claims that low‐to‐middle‐income households should not shoulder the costs of greater policy alignment between social and environmental objectives. Integrating the social into the environmental can therefore, on the one hand, lead to “co‐benefits” as each agenda promotes the other in political discourse, or alternatively to collateral damage if the policy objectives are framed as incompatible. This article explores both scenarios through two case studies of energy policy in Australia. The findings show that social‐welfare concerns can be a powerful discursive tool with the potential to facilitate political consensus, but also that this potential is not being fully realised, primarily because environmental concerns suffer when attempts are made to integrate the two areas discursively.

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Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers

Cited by 108 publications

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Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values

Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values

Emissions of methane from northern peatlands: a review of management impacts and implications for future management options

Connecting social and environmental policy in Australia: Collateral gains or collateral damage?

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