Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries

Kácha, Ondřej; Vintr, Jáchym; Brick, Cameron

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101815

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“…These findings align with recent reports of high climate concern in the Netherlands (European Commission, 2019;Ipsos, 2021;Kloosterman et al, 2021). Policy support was somewhat higher than recent reports of the Netherlands (Kloosterman et al, 2021) and Europe (Kácha et al, 2022), which suggests the current samples might have been biased by willingness to participate in polls by an environmental group.…”

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Climate Concern and Engagement: Large Face-to-Face and Online Polls by the Dutch non-profit Milieudefensie

2023

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Climate change mitigation depends on tracking public opinion across populations. Social scientists can collaborate with environmental organizations that conduct surveys among their audiences. We teamed up with the non-profit Milieudefensie, who surveyed Dutch attitudes towards climate change in 2019–2020. The large dataset had face-to-face (n = 3,102) and online interviews (n = 30,311) of urbanity, climate concern, policy preferences, interviewer-rated engagement with climate change, and behavior (whether the interviewee provided their email and phone number to the organization). To reveal the representativeness of these kinds of convenience samples, we tested whether attitudes and their associations with behaviors were similar to previous studies. Climate concern, preference for climate policy, and interviewer-rated engagement were high. In the online survey, 47% of respondents signed up for an email newsletter, and 7% provided their phone number. Higher climate concern and preference for climate policy predicted interviewer-rated engagement and behavior (weak to strong associations). Urbanity was not related to concern, policy preferences, or interviewer-rated engagement. Policy preferences did not differ between the face-to-face and online samples. The results provide convergent evidence to conventional online surveys. These Dutch residents appear slightly more engaged with systemic change to mitigate climate change than the general public.

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Climate Concern and Engagement: Large Face-to-Face and Online Polls by the Dutch non-profit Milieudefensie

2023

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“…14 Positive attitudes and awareness with sustainability has previously been associated with favourable sustainable behaviours. 105 However, adding a personalised approach to sustainable diet advice will potentially increase the impact on behaviour change and therefore the environment. Furthermore, a personalised approach can help to build a foundation for dietetic practice.…”

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“…A limitation of this work is that it is informing a single‐blinded human intervention study, and therefore the influence of consumer attitudes and education on sustainable diets will be limited 14 . Positive attitudes and awareness with sustainability has previously been associated with favourable sustainable behaviours 105 . However, adding a personalised approach to sustainable diet advice will potentially increase the impact on behaviour change and therefore the environment.…”

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Moving towards more sustainable diets: Is there potential for a personalised approach in practice?

Davies,

Gibney,

O'Sullivan

2023

J Human Nutrition Diet

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Discourse on the relationship between food production, healthy eating and sustainability has become increasingly prominent and controversial in recent years. Research groups often take one perspective when reporting on sustainable diets, and several often neglect considerations for the multiple aspects that make a diet truly sustainable, such as cultural acceptability, differences in nutritional requirements amongst the population and the efficiency of long‐term dietary change. Plant‐based diets are associated with lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) and have been linked with better health outcomes, including lower risk of diet‐related chronic disease. However, foods associated with higher GHGE, such as lean red meat, fish and dairy, have beneficial nutritional profiles and contribute significantly to micronutrient intakes. Some research has shown that diets associated with lower GHGE can be less nutritionally adequate. Several countries now include sustainability recommendations in dietary guidelines but use vague language such as “increase” or “consume regularly” when referring to plant‐based foods. General population‐based nutrition advice has poor adherence and does not consider differences in nutritional needs. Although modelling studies show potential to significantly reduce environmental impact with dietary changes, personalising such dietary recommendations has not been studied. Adapting recommendations to the individual through reproducible methods of personalised nutrition has been shown to lead to more favourable and longer‐lasting dietary changes compared to population‐based nutrition advice. When considering sustainable healthy dietary guidelines, personalised feedback may increase the acceptability, effectiveness and nutritional adequacy of the diet. A personalised approach has the potential for delivering a new structure of more sustainable healthy food‐based dietary guidelines. This review evaluates the potential to develop personalised sustainable healthy food‐based dietary guidelines and discusses potential implications for policy and practice.

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“…For example, companies might categorize certain consumers into 'light green' (early adopters of sustainable products) or 'dark green' (pioneers of sustainability). Such segmentation can also be useful beyond marketing, for example by facilitating effective messaging, or for characterizing distinct audiences based on climate change beliefs (Kácha et al, 2022). To investigate consumer segments, we separately analyzed four countries in this research.…”

Section: Using Attitudes To Understand Consumer Behaviormentioning

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“…However, consumer profiles are also a simplification that aggregates how consumers differ between and within segments. Segmentation has therefore also been criticized for stigmatizing the relevant groups and uncertainty about whether the groups are socially constructed rather than discovered (Brick et al, 2022;Kácha et al, 2022).…”

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Intentions to Purchase a Sustainable Mobile Phone by Network Analysis in Four European Countries

Zwicker¹,

Harreveld²,

Zickfeld³

et al. 2023

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Most consumers say they are willing to consume more sustainably, but this does not often translate into commensurate behavior. To investigate this discrepancy in the context of smartphone purchase, a pre-registered online study (total N = 2,202) was conducted in four countries: the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. We used an attitude network approach to explore factors related to the intention to purchase a sustainable smartphone (the Fairphone 4). Across countries, psychological factors were more important than product and brand characteristics for intentions to buy a sustainable smartphone. In particular, joy and excitement, overall attitude, and green product interest related positively to purchase intentions, while the status of a product and feelings of uncertainty about the product correlated negatively with intentions. We discuss network analysis as a tool for information gathering and hypothesis generation, and give suggestions for how the results could inform marketing and communication strategies.

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Four Europes: Climate change beliefs and attitudes predict behavior and policy preferences using a latent class analysis on 23 countries

Cited by 17 publications

References 50 publications

Climate Concern and Engagement: Large Face-to-Face and Online Polls by the Dutch non-profit Milieudefensie

Climate Concern and Engagement: Large Face-to-Face and Online Polls by the Dutch non-profit Milieudefensie

Moving towards more sustainable diets: Is there potential for a personalised approach in practice?

Intentions to Purchase a Sustainable Mobile Phone by Network Analysis in Four European Countries

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