Value of cultural worldviews and message framing for the acceptability of sustainable land use zoning policies in post-conflict Somalia

Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

“…Third, while our research supports the suggestion that authorities could foster public support and thus public compliance by crafting messages that are culturally congenial to target audiences (Diriye et al, 2021; Jenkins‐Smith & Smith, 1994; Jones, 2014; Kahan et al, 2017; Siegrist & Bearth, 2021; Song, 2014), our different results for social distancing and a vaccine mandate further suggest that risk and policy communicators clearly articulate and emphasize how different values are relevant to the policy so that the public can recognize how these are congruent with their value expectations. For example, risk and policy communicators may increase individualists' support and thus compliance with the vaccine mandate by elucidating that unvaccinated individuals could force infectious diseases upon others, which will undermine the principle of individual self‐determination (Song, 2014).…”

“…In accord with CT's compatibility condition, general cultural biases guide individuals' core and secondary policy beliefs (Jenkins‐Smith et al, 2014; Ripberger et al, 2014; Sotirov & Winkel, 2016), which further influence their attitudes across policies, ranging from environmental (Jenkins‐Smith & Smith, 1994; Jones, 2014), land use (Diriye et al, 2021) and economic policy (Lodge & Wegrich, 2011) to public health (Kahan et al, 2017; Siegrist & Bearth, 2021), national security, and foreign policy (Ripberger et al, 2014). Among other things, policy scholars have examined how underlying cultural biases explain the design of policy tools and the style of governmental risk management that drive (or impede) the policy coalitions of different groups with compatible (or incompatible) cultures (Baker, 2017; Hornung & Bandelow, 2022; Jenkins‐Smith et al, 2014; Ripberger et al, 2014; Weare et al, 2014).…”

Understanding young people’s perception toward forestation as a strategy to mitigate climate change in a post-conflict developing country

“…One general implication for the biocentric-anthropocentric value orientation is that to understand public perception, it is imperative to not only focus on the specific attitudes related to the environment but also the underlying values and motives behind these attitudes. The reason is that understanding both attitudes and underlying value orientations will contribute to a greater understanding of the type of climate mitigation policies that are acceptable to the public (Diriye et al, 2021). As evidenced in our results, individuals with biocentric value orientation are more likely to behave pro-environmentally, which implies that future carbon trading forestry projects in low economy countries such as Somalia should not only focus on the handouts from carbon payments but should focus on communicating the environmental and social benefits of forestation such as unpriced recreational open spaces, carbon sequestration, prevention of soil erosion, and provision of ecosystem services as these were deemed most important to the people who hold biocentric value orientations.…”