Journal: Climatic Change

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  • The end of model democracy?
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Knutti, Reto (2010)
    Climatic Change
  • How does an economic shock affect environmental attitudes, preferences and issue importance? Evidence from Switzerland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Rudolph, Lukas; Gomm, Sarah (2024)
    Climatic Change
    How do economic shocks affect pressure by the mass public for pro-environmental political action? If democratic systems are to develop and sustain ambitious environmental policy over several decades, this question is important to answer. Theoretically, we argue to look beyond changes in attitudes such as environmental concern, and trace whether and how citizen's policy preferences, and the political importance they attach to environment-related issues change when experiencing a deterioration of their personal economic situation. Empirically, we draw on high-quality population-representative panel survey data for an affluent country, Switzerland, combining tailored survey measures for quasi-random Corona-related employment and income losses, nuanced measures of environmental attitudes and policy preferences, and recently developed measures for issue importance. We neither find a decline of environmental policy support among economically affected individuals compared to the rest of the population (a population wide drop, however), nor lower importance given to environment related relative to economic issues in voting decisions. While this suggests that politicians need not fear electoral losses when pursuing environmental policies in times of economic crisis, we note that the severe extent of the Covid-induced recession, coupled with a rapid recovery, is peculiar to this economic crisis and warrants further research regarding the generalizability of our findings to economic shocks of longer duration.
  • Ungulate herbivory modifies the effects of climate change on mountain forests
    Item type: Journal Article
    Didion, M.; Kupferschmid, A.D.; Wolf, A.; et al. (2011)
    Climatic Change
  • Sensitivity of high-resolution Arctic regional climate model projections to different implementations of land surface processes
    Item type: Journal Article
    Matthes, Heidrun; Rinke, Annette; Miller, Paul A.; et al. (2012)
    Climatic Change
  • A comparative analysis of the structure and behavior of three gap models at sites in northeastern China
    Item type: Journal Article
    Shao, Guofan; Bugmann, Harald; Yan, Xiaodong (2001)
    Climatic Change
  • Assessing the relative importance of psychological and demographic factors for predicting climate and environmental attitudes
    Item type: Journal Article
    Beiser-McGrath, Liam F.; Huber, Robert A. (2018)
    Climatic Change
    In this paper, we seek to identify robust predictors of individuals’ attitudes towards climate change and environmental degradation. While much of the extant literature has been devoted to the individual explanatory potential of individuals’ characteristics, we focus on the extent to which these characteristics provide robust predictions of climate and environmental attitudes. Thereby, we adjudicate the relative predictive power of psychological and sociodemographic characteristics, as well as the predictive power of combinations of these attributes. To do so, we use a popular machine learning technique, Random Forests, on three surveys fielded in China, Switzerland, and the USA, using a variety of outcome variables. We find that a psychological construct, the consideration of future consequences (CFC) scale, performs well in predicting attitudes, across all contexts and better than traditional explanations of climate attitudes, such as income and education. Given recent advances suggesting potential psychological barriers of behavioural change Public (Weaver, Adm Rev 75:806–816, 2015) and the use of psychological constructs to target persuasive messages (Abrahamse et al., J Environ Psychol 265–276, 2007; Hirsh et al., Psychol Sci 23:578–581, 2012), identifying important predictors, such as the CFC may allow to better understand public’s appetite for climate and environmental policies and increase demand for these policies, in an area where existing efforts have shown to be lacking (Bernauer and McGrath, Nat Clim Chang 6:680–683, 2016; Chapman et al., Nat Clim Chang 7:850–852, 2017).
  • Perceptions of environmental changes among a climate-vulnerable population from Bangladesh
    Item type: Journal Article
    Freihardt, Jan (2024)
    Climatic Change
    Effective climate change adaptation requires a thorough understanding of whether and how affected populations perceive climatic and environmental changes. Existing research has been inconclusive regarding the consistency of these perceptions compared to objective meteorological indicators. Moreover, no systematic comparison has been done for the perception of discrete environmental events such as floods or erosion. This study relies on novel panel survey data of approximately 1700 households residing along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh as well as on unique individual-level, satellite-based erosion data. It compares respondents' perceptions of environmental events, namely riverbank erosion, and three climate change indicators, specifically long-term temperature change and changes in precipitation during wet and dry seasons, to objective measurements using satellite imagery and climatic time-series data (CRU TS). I find that long-term temperature change is perceived more accurately than long-term changes in precipitation. Given that educational attainment and climate change literacy among the study population are low, this indicates that global temperature increases are felt even by remote populations who have never heard the term climate change. Erosion is strongly overestimated, especially by those respondents who had been personally affected by it. Since human behavior is guided by perceptions rather than objective data, this has important policy implications, underlining the importance of considering people's perceptions if the goal is to assist them in adapting to environmental changes.
  • A new approach to explain farmers’ adoption of climate change mitigation measures
    Item type: Journal Article
    Moerkerken, Albert; Blasch, Julia; Van Beukering, Pieter; et al. (2020)
    Climatic Change
  • Projections of future tropical cyclone damage with a high-resolution global climate model
    Item type: Journal Article
    Gettelman, Andrew; Bresch, David N.; Chen, Chihchieh C.; et al. (2018)
    Climatic Change
  • Exploring the link between climate change and migration
    Item type: Journal Article
    Perch-Nielsen, Sabine L.; Bättig, Michèle B.; Imboden, Dieter (2008)
    Climatic Change
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