Motivating mitigation: when health matters more than climate change
Motivating mitigation: when health matters more than climate change
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激励缓解措施：当健康比气候变化更重要时
DOI：
10.1007/s10584-014-1192-2
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Lisa Zaval
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作者：
N. Petrović;J. Madrigano;Lisa Zaval
美国公众一直将气候变化列为低国家优先事项，部分原因是缺乏个人参与以及与环境影响的时间和空间距离感（Leiserowitz 2006）。然而，减缓气候变化的主要方法，减少化石燃料的使用，也将减少颗粒空气污染，这与全球每年300多万人的死亡有关（Lim等人，2013）。事实上，在美国，改善公共健康是减少化石燃料使用的最大好处之一（Leiserowitz等人，2013年），科学界十多年来一直在宣传这些好处，例如减少住院和过早死亡（Cifuentes等人，2001年; West等人，2013年）。此外，健康行为文献表明，个人对风险的感知可能与健康有关，是行为改变的最强动力之一（Few 2007; Maibach and帕罗特1995）。因此，争取对减少碳排放的支持的一个可能方法是强调减少当今与健康有关的影响的额外共同利益。然而，公共卫生信息是否能改善气候变化减缓工作，或者美国人口的特定部分将如何回应这一信息，仍有待理解。特别是，强调健康的共同利益可能是一个强大的动力，改变个人的态度，不太关心环境威胁或谁否认人为气候变化的存在。DOI 10.1007/s10584-014-1192-2
The US public consistently ranks climate change as a low national priority due, in part, to a lack of personal engagement and a sense of temporal and spatial distance from the environmental effects (Leiserowitz 2006). Yet, the chief method for climate changemitigation, the reduction of fossil fuel use, would also reduce particulate air pollution, which is implicated in over three million deaths worldwide each year (Lim et al. 2013). Indeed, in the US, improved public health ranks among the top perceived benefits of reducing fossil fuel use (Leiserowitz et al. 2013), and the scientific community has been promoting these benefits—such as reduction in hospitalizations and premature deaths —for over a decade (Cifuentes et al. 2001; West et al. 2013). Furthermore, the health behavior literature demonstrates that personal perception of risk, which is likely to be linked to health, is one of the strongest motivators of behavioral change (Few 2007; Maibach and Parrott 1995). Thus, one possible method for garnering support for carbon emissions reduction is to emphasize the added co-benefit of reducing present-day, health-related impacts. However, it remains to be understood whether public health messaging can lead to improved climate change mitigation efforts, or how specific segments of the US population will respond to this message. In particular, emphasizing health co-benefits may be a strong motivator of attitude change among individuals who are less concerned about environmental threats or who deny the existence of anthropogenic climate change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-014-1192-2