Consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change: insights from nationally representative surveys across four European countries
Consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change: insights from nationally representative surveys across four European countries
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10.1080/13669877.2018.1473468
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
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5.1
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Pidgeon, Nick
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作者：
Doran, Rouven;Bohm, Gisela;Pidgeon, Nick
本文探讨了四个欧洲国家对气候变化的后果评估和道德关切。分析了全国代表性样本（每个样本n>1000）的数据，以探讨在解释公众对不同气候政策的支持时，后果与道德的相对重要性。大多数受访者预计气候变化将对他们各自的国家产生很大的负面影响。气候变化的后果在德国被认为是最负面的，其次是法国、英国、德国和英国。和挪威。虽然绝大多数答复者对气候变化至少表示了某种程度的道德关切，但每个样本中都有少数人表示他们没有这种关切。道德问题在法国最受关注，其次是英国。最低的是德国。人们发现，这两种判断都解释了对旨在缓解气候变化或旨在适应气候变化影响的政策的支持。然而，我们的研究结果进一步表明，道德关注是一个更强的预测政策支持比后果评价。如果有的话，后果评估更有可能预测德国和挪威的政策支持，而不是英国。和法国总体而言，涉及补贴的政策得到的支持最多，而涉及个人成本的政策得到的支持最少。这项研究拓宽了我们对风险认知和公众对气候政策支持之间相互交织的理解，记录了国家之间和国家内部的变化。对有兴趣向更广泛的公众宣传气候变化风险的决策者的影响进行了讨论。
This paper examines consequence evaluations and moral concerns about climate change across four European countries. Data from nationally representative samples (each n>1000) were analysed in order to explore the relative importance of consequences versus morality in explaining public support for different climate policies. Most respondents expected climate change to have largely negative consequences for their respective country. Climate change consequences were viewed most negatively in Germany, followed by France, the U.K. and Norway. While the vast majority of respondents expressed at least some degree of moral concern about climate change, a notable minority in each sample stated that they have no such concerns. Moral concerns were highest in France, followed by the U.K. and Norway, and lowest in Germany. It was found that both judgements explain support for policies that aim to mitigate climate change or aim to adapt to the impacts of climate change. However, our results further suggest that moral concern was a stronger predictor of policy support than consequence evaluations. If at all, consequence evaluations were more likely to predict policy support in Germany and Norway than in the U.K. and France. Overall, policies that involved subsidies received the strongest support, whereas policies involving individual costs received the least support. This research broadens our understanding of the intertwining between risk perceptions and public support for climate policies, documenting variability across and within countries. Implications for policy-makers with an interest in communicating climate change risks to the broader public audience are discussed.