Cooperation and cognition gaps for salinity: A field experiment of information provision in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh
Cooperation and cognition gaps for salinity: A field experiment of information provision in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127562
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发表时间：
2021-06-05
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Kotani, Koji
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作者：
Asma, Khatun Mst;Shahrier, Shibly;Kotani, Koji
盐碱化和气候变化对人们的生活具有毁灭性的影响，因此，需要采取适应和缓解战略来应对其风险。文献证实，由于信息和居住差异，存在合作和认知差距，这使得战略的实施变得困难。尽管人们对如何缩小这种差距知之甚少，因此，我们研究了信息提供对人们减少城乡盐碱化问题的合作和认知的影响。假设通过一些讲座提供有关盐度的信息可以有效地缩小人们之间的合作和认知差距。我们进行了现场实验，收集了来自孟加拉国一个城市和两个农村地区的900名受试者的捐款、亲社会性、认知和社会人口学因素的数据。建立了气候捐赠游戏，以衡量人们之间的合作，在提供或不提供信息的情况下，他们被要求为减少盐碱化风险捐款。分析显示，对人类导致的气候变化有亲社会倾向和认知的人比没有亲社会倾向和认知的人捐献更多，城市人往往比农村人捐献更少。然而，与农村人相比，城市人通过接受信息提供来增加捐款的比例要高得多。这些结果可以解释为，城市人对演讲的反应比农村人更合作，合作差距因认知的变化而通过提供信息而变小。总体而言，结果表明，盐碱化和气候变化的信息和教育计划应该是有效的和优先考虑的，特别是在城市地区，通过影响人们的认知来加强合作，实现可持续发展目标。
Salinity along with climate change has devastating effects on people's life, and thus, adaptation and mitigation strategies are needed to cope with its risks. Literature establishes an existence of cooperation and cognition gaps due to informational and residential differences that make the strategies' implementation difficult. While little is known about how such gaps can be reduced, therefore, we examine the effect of information provision on people's cooperation and cognition for reducing salinity problems in urban and rural areas. It is hypothesized that information provision about salinity through some lecture is effective at reducing cooperation and cognition gaps among people. We conduct a field experiment, collecting data on donations, prosociality, cognitive and sociodemographic factors of 900 subjects from one urban and two rural areas in Bangladesh. A climate donation game is instituted to measure cooperation among people where they are asked to donate to salinity risk reduction with or without the information provision. The analysis shows that people who have prosocial orientation and perception of human-induced climate change donate more than do those who do not, and urban people tend to donate less than do rural people. However, urban people are identified to increase their donations by receiving the information provision much more than do rural people. These results can be interpreted that urban people become more cooperative in response to the lecture than do rural people, and cooperation gaps become smaller due to a change in cognition via information provision. Overall, the results demonstrate that informational and education programs for salinity and climate change shall be effective and prioritized especially in urban areas to enhance cooperation for sustainable development goals through affecting people's cognition.