Climate Change Preferences and Values

Kim Conrad
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This research examines the role of fundamental beliefs in the environment, anthropocentrism, and the economy in public preferences toward policies aimed at mitigating the risks of climate change as well as the heterogeneity in those beliefs. We argue that citizens hold multiple considerations toward policies related to global warming and that rather than making policy choices more difficult leading to attitudinal ambivalence, these various beliefs reduce the response variability around individual preferences. Further, we argue that individuals with more knowledge about the causes and consequences of global warming should have more variance around their policy preferences. The analysis of a national telephone survey related to climate change reveals that 1) many people are generally supportive of policies to reduce the risks of global warming 2) the amount of support varies according to specific policy proposals 3) policy preferences are mostly of function of beliefs toward the environment and the economy and subjective risk perceptions and 4) the variation around individual policy preferences decreases among individuals that simultaneously hold competing values and expectations toward the environment, the economy, and human dominance over nature. These results indicate that multiple considerations do not necessarily lead to ambivalence among public preferences for policies to reduce the risks of climate change. In addition, the results show that individuals with more knowledge about the causes and consequences of climate change are generally more supportive of policies to limit the risks of global warming, but also have more variation around those preferences.
气候变化偏好和价值观
本研究考察了环境、人类中心主义和经济方面的基本信念在公众对旨在减轻气候变化风险的政策偏好中的作用,以及这些信念的异质性。我们认为,公民对与全球变暖有关的政策有多种考虑,而不是使政策选择更加困难导致态度矛盾,这些不同的信念减少了个人偏好周围的反应可变性。此外,我们认为,对全球变暖的原因和后果了解越多的个人,他们的政策偏好应该有更大的差异。一项有关气候变化的全国性电话调查分析表明:1)许多人普遍支持降低全球变暖风险的政策;2)支持的数量根据具体的政策建议而变化;3)政策偏好主要是对环境和经济的信念和主观风险感知的函数;4)在同时持有竞争价值观的个人之间,个人政策偏好的变化减少以及对环境、经济和人类支配自然的期望。这些结果表明,多重考虑并不一定会导致公众对减少气候变化风险的政策偏好的矛盾心理。此外,研究结果表明,对气候变化的原因和后果了解越多的个人通常更支持限制全球变暖风险的政策,但在这些偏好方面也有更大的差异。
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