The importance of salience: public opinion and state policy action on climate change

Bromley-Trujillo, Rebecca; Poe, John

doi:10.1017/s0143814x18000375

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“…These elements are socially constructed and shift and change over time, with differing impacts on regulatory outcomes. Climate research has found that perceived scientific uncertainty can delay policy action while issue salience can spur regulatory development (Bromley‐Trujillo & Poe, 2020; Cann & Raymond, 2018); it is less clear whether these dynamics hold true in other areas of energy politics. Future studies should explore the interaction of scientific uncertainty and dread environmental risk across issue areas, examining similarities among fracking research, climate politics, and socio‐technology studies more broadly.…”

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Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation

Millar

2020

Review of Policy Research

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This study uses policy learning frameworks to explain variation in processes of hydraulic fracturing regulatory development in Canadian provinces. Using a cross-case comparison of British Columbia and Nova Scotia, the article demonstrates that differences in problem uncertainty and institutional insularity in each province determined modes of technical, social, and political learning in each province. In British Columbia elected officials framed LNG as a safe, clean energy source generating economic benefits. These frames made it difficult for anti-fracking advocates to increase the salience of environmental risks and scientific uncertainty. Low problem uncertainty and high institutional insularity fostered processes of technical learning within the BC Oil and Gas Commission focused on single-issue regulations. In Nova Scotia, an external review provided an ad hoc institutional venue through which environmental advocates, residents, and experts could increase the salience of scientific uncertainty and dread environmental risks. These conditions fostered collective processes of social learning among anti-fracking advocates and political learning among elected officials, resulting in a ban.

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Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation

Millar

2020

Review of Policy Research

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“…Thus, increasing population, rising emissions, and climate vulnerability make global warming a salient issue for urban America. Lastly, the U.S. federal government's lack of action on climate change [8][9][10][11] has provided a vacuum and policy opportunity for sub-national governments (including state and local governments) to play an important role in climate mitigation and adaptation [12,13]. States and cities are often left with large amounts of discretion to address this policy challenge as they see fit [14].…”

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Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

Boussalis

Coan

Holman

2019

Climate

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City governments have a large role to play in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, given that urban locales are responsible for disproportionately high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are on the “front lines” of observed and anticipated climate change impacts. This study examines how US mayors prioritize climate policies within the context of the city agenda. Employing a computer-assisted content analysis of over 2886 mayoral press releases related to climate change from 82 major American cities for the period 2010–2016, we describe and explain the extent to which city governments discuss mitigation and adaptation policies in official communications. Specifically, we rely on a semi-supervised topic model to measure key climate policy themes in city press releases and examine their correlates using a multilevel statistical model. Our results suggest that while mitigation policies tend to dominate the city agenda on climate policy, discussion of adaptation efforts has risen dramatically in the past few years. Further, our statistical analysis indicates that partisanship influences city discussion on a range of climate policy areas—including emissions, land use policy, and climate resiliency—while projected vulnerability to climatic risks only influences discussion of climate resiliency and adaptation efforts.

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“…From the perspective remote sensing this result has some bias due to consideration of only non-cloudy observations. A known limitation is that compared to surveys which provide a direct indication of public concern based in individual response, internet search data can only provide active collective public response (Bromley-Trujillo, Poe, 2018), and by extension cannot inform individualistic inclinations that may govern the reason for concern. Further internet searches represents only active interest, so when air pollution may not be searched for on a clean air day, it si unclear whether perception regarding air pollution has changed.…”

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Assessing Population Sensitivity to Urban Air Pollution Using Google Trends and Remote Sensing Datasets

Misra

Takeuchi

2020

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. This study demonstrates relationship between remote sensing satellite retrieved fien aerosol concentration and web-based search volumes of air quality related keywords. People’s perception of urban air pollution can verify policy effectiveness and gauge acceptability of policies. As a serious health issue in Asian cities, population may express concern or uncertainty for air pollution risk by performing search on the web to seek answers. A ‘social sensing’ approach that monitors such search queries, may assess people’ perception about air pollution as a risk. We hypothesize that trend and volume of searches show impact of air pollution on general population. The objectives of this research are to identify those atmospheric conditions under which relative search volume (RSV) obtained from Google Trends shows correlation with measured fine aerosol concentration, and to compare search volume sensitivity to rise in aerosol concentration in seven Asian megacities. We considered weekly relative search volumes from Google Trends (GT) for a four year period from January, 2015 to December, 2018 representing diverse PM2.5 concentrations. Search volumes for keywords corresponding to perception of air quality (‘air pollution’) and health effects (‘cough’ and ‘asthma’) were considered. To represent PM2.5 we used fine aerosol indicator developed in an earlier research. The results suggest that tendency to search for ‘air pollution’ and ‘cough’ occurs when AirRGB R is in excess and temperature is below the baseline values. Consistent with this, in cities with high baseline concentrations, sensitivity to rise in AirRGB R is also comparatively lower. The result of this study can used as an indirect measure of awareness in the form of perception and sensitivity of population to air quality. Such an analysis could be useful for forecasting health risks specially in cities lacking dedicated services.

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The importance of salience: public opinion and state policy action on climate change

Cited by 92 publications

References 67 publications

Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation

Problem Uncertainty, Institutional Insularity, and Modes of Learning in Canadian Provincial Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation

Communicating Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts in American Cities

Assessing Population Sensitivity to Urban Air Pollution Using Google Trends and Remote Sensing Datasets

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