Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation
Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.008
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发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Held, Hermann
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作者：
Engels, Anita;Huether, Otto;Held, Hermann
许多研究表明，公众对气候变化的关注普遍下降，反之亦然，公众对气候变化的怀疑态度上升，特别是在美国和其他盎格鲁-撒克逊国家。关于这是否是一个全球现象，哪些因素解释了下降，以及在向低碳社会转型的背景下这些趋势的更广泛的社会影响，有一个生动的辩论。我们通过介绍最近在德国进行的一项一般人口调查的结果来补充这一文献，在这项调查中，我们一方面寻找公众气候变化怀疑主义与能源偏好和政治参与之间的系统联系。德国是一个有趣的试验台，因为它目前正在大规模重组其能源供应系统，转向可再生能源（“能源转型”）。我们的研究结果表明，气候变化怀疑论并没有在德国广泛传播，但它与可再生能源的支持较少有关。然而，怀疑与政治参与呈负相关，在德国，公众对气候变化的怀疑没有强有力的政治渠道。还讨论了成功实施“能源转型”的其他潜在障碍。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Many studies have shown a general decline of public concern about climate change or vice versa a rise in public climate-change skepticism, in particular in the U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon countries. There is a vivid debate on whether this is a global phenomenon, on which factors explain the decline, and on the broader societal implications of these trends in the context of the transformation toward a low-carbon society. We add to this literature by presenting the results of a recent general population survey in Germany in which we looked for systematic linkages between public climate-change skepticism on one hand, and energy preferences and political participation on the other. Germany is an interesting testbed as it is currently involved in a large-scale restructuring of its system of energy supply toward renewable energy sources (the "Energiewende"). Our results indicate that climate-change skepticism has not diffused widely in Germany, but that it correlates with less support of renewable energy sources. However, skepticism correlates negatively with political participation, and there is no strong political outlet for public climate-change skepticism in Germany. Alternative potential barriers for the successful implementation of the "Energiewende" are also discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.