DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1871-2
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85007179001
论文题名: Public perceptions of air pollution and climate change: different manifestations, similar causes, and concerns
作者: Tvinnereim E. ; Liu X. ; Jamelske E.M.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2017
卷: 140, 期: 2018-03-04 起始页码: 399
结束页码: 412
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Air pollution
; Climate change
; Crashworthiness
; Decision making
; Global warming
; Sea level
; Collective action
; Decision makers
; Environmental issues
; Local pollutions
; Mitigation policies
; Open-ended questions
; Public acceptance
; Public perception
; Pollution
; attitudinal survey
; collective action
; decision making
; environmental impact
; environmental policy
; environmental values
; experimental design
; glacier
; global warming
; mitigation
; perception
; pollution control
; public attitude
; smog
; China
英文摘要: Co-benefits are seen as a key factor for overcoming the problems of collective action and extended time horizons holding back mitigation of global warming. The mechanism behind this hypothesis is that public acceptance of mitigation policies constitutes a crucial limiting factor, necessitating ancillary gains such as clean air for mitigation policy to be politically robust. However, the public’s preference for local pollution mitigation and concomitant failure to appreciate the benefits of global warming mitigation is assumed rather than demonstrated. In this paper, we show, first, that people distinguish between the physical manifestations of air pollution and global warming, and second, that they see both phenomena as arising from the same causes as well as having negative impacts on humans. Specifically, using a survey experimental design with open-ended questions in an urban Chinese setting, we demonstrate that citizens relate glacier melt and sea-level rise to global warming, while linking the local phenomenon of smog almost exclusively to air pollution. At the same time, respondents link impacts on humans and vehicle/industrial pollution topics with both air pollution and global warming. These findings are relevant to decision-makers as they suggest that the public values mitigation of global warming in its own right. Our novel method may shed new light on a range of issues relating to energy, the economy, and environmental issues. © 2016, The Author(s). Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84093
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Uni Research Rokkan Center for Social Studies, P. O. Box 7810, Bergen, Norway; Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Schneider Social Science Hall 476, Eau Claire, WI, United States
Recommended Citation:
Tvinnereim E.,Liu X.,Jamelske E.M.. Public perceptions of air pollution and climate change: different manifestations, similar causes, and concerns[J]. Climatic Change,2017-01-01,140(2018-03-04)