Americans’ support for climate justice

IF 4.9 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Science & Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103976

Jennifer P. Carman , Danning Lu , Matthew Ballew , Joshua Low , Marija Verner , Seth A. Rosenthal , Kristin Barendregt-Ludwig , Gerald Torres , Michel Gelobter , Kate McKenney , Irene Burga , Mark Magaña , Saad Amer , Romona Taylor Williams , Montana Burgess , Grace McRae , Annika Larson , Manuel Salgado , Leah Ndumi Kioko , Jennifer Marlon , Anthony Leiserowitz

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Abstract

Collaborating with climate justice practitioners, we conducted a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults (n = 1011) to measure and explore predictors of Americans’ climate justice beliefs and intentions to engage in related behaviors. We find that only about one-third of Americans have heard of climate justice, but about half of Americans support climate justice goals once they are explained. Support for climate justice is predicted by many factors, including views about global warming, perceptions of climate and racial injustice, cultural worldviews, and demographics including racial identity, gender, and political party/ideology. Our study suggests a need to build public awareness of the term “climate justice,” the disproportionate harms of climate change, and how climate justice initiatives will address these harms. Our study also illustrates how researchers might incorporate practitioner perspectives in national and international studies on climate justice.

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Environmental Science & Policy 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

10.90

自引率

8.30%

发文量

332

审稿时长

68 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Science & Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, and the interactions among these issues. The journal emphasises the linkages between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health. However, the subject coverage will not be restricted to these issues and the introduction of new dimensions will be encouraged.