World Citizenship and Concern for Global Warming: Building the Case for a Strong International Civil Society

Running, Katrina

doi:10.1093/sf/sot077

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“…Taken together with recent research showing 80% ascription of the 'global citizenship' label (Running, 2013), the findings challenge the view that the global is 'distanced and un-situated relative to an individual's mental world' (Hulme, 2008). The findings also inform debate regarding relations amongst place attachments from local to global scales.…”

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confidence: 44%

My country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions

Devine‐Wright

Price

Leviston

2015

Global Environmental Change

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TITLEMy country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions AUTHORSDevine-Wright, P; Price, J; Leviston, Z JOURNAL Global Environmental Change DEPOSITED IN ORE March 2016This version available at http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20384 COPYRIGHT AND REUSEOpen Research Exeter makes this work available in accordance with publisher policies. Abstract: Research on people-place relations, specifically place attachment and place identity, is beginning to make an important contribution to understanding human responses to climate change. However, to date there has been a dearth of research on how place attachments at multiple scales, particularly the global, and individual level ideological beliefs combine to influence climate change attitudes and opinions. To address these gaps, survey data was collected from a representative sample of Australian citizens (N = 1147), capturing attachments at neighbourhood, city/town, state/territory, country and global scales, as well as a range of climate change belief and individual difference measures. Results show the importance of the interplay between national and global place attachments. Individuals expressing stronger global than national attachments were more likely to attribute climate change to anthropogenic causes, to oppose hierarchy-enhancing myths that legitimize climate inaction, and to perceive positive economic impacts arising from climate change responses, in comparison to individuals indicating stronger national over global place attachments. Individuals with stronger global than national attachments were more likely to be female, younger, and self-identify as having no religion, to be more likely to vote Green and to be characterized by significantly lower levels of right wing authoritarian and social dominance beliefs. Right wing authoritarian and social dominance beliefs mediated the effects of place attachments upon climate change skepticism. Explanations for the findings and implications for future research are discussed. A NOTE ON VERSIONS

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 44%

My country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions

Devine‐Wright

Price

Leviston

2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…While cross-national studies consistently reported higher concern about climate change among individuals with higher education (Kvaloy et al, 2012;Running, 2013;Tjernstrom and Tietenberg, 2008), in the United States there is evidence of an inverse relationship between education and perceived climate change risks, both for general education (O'Connor, Bard, & Fisher, 1999) and specific science literacy and numeracy (Kahan et al, 2012). Political orientation coupled with disinformation campaign and successful movement by conservative think tanks explain why concern about climate change can be negatively associated with education among American population (Hamilton, 2011;McCright and Dunlap, 2003).…”

Section: Concern About Global Warmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang

Muttarak

2017

Ecological Economics

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We investigate whether there are green returns to education, where formal education encourages pro-environmental behaviours using nationally representative surveys on environmental issues in Thailand. To establish the causal relationship between education and green behaviours, we exploit the instrumental variables strategy using the supply of state primary schooling i.e. the corresponding number of teachers per 1000 children, which varies over time and across regions as the instrument, while controlling for regional, cohort and income effects. We find that more years of schooling lead to a greater probability of taking knowledge-based environmentallyfriendly actions a great deal, but not cost-saving pro-environmental actions. In addition, the paper finds no significant impact of formal education on concern about global warming nor the willingness to pay for environmental tax.

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“…Empirical support for this hypothesis has been reported by Givens and Jorgenson (2011) who used multilevel logistic regression to investigate the relationship between environmental degradation and environmental concern across 38 nations. Running (2013) used the same statistical methodology in a list of 43 nations and reported a positive and significant relation between CO2 emissions and concern for global warming. Other studies that found a positive link between objective environmental conditions and environmental concern include Anderson et al (2007), Harrris (2006, Johnson et al (2005), Newig (2004, and Schelhas and Pfeffer (2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In fact the WVS data have been recently extensively used in the field of environmental and/or global warming studies (e.g. Givens and Jorgenson 2011;Kvaloy et al 2012;Running 2013). Country-level data were taken from the World Bank (WDI 2010).…”

Section: Concern For Global Warmingmentioning

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Post-materialism, Religiosity, Political Orientation, Locus of Control and Concern for Global Warming: A Multilevel Analysis Across 40 Nations

Mostafa

2015

Soc Indic Res

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The aim of this paper is to investigate factors influencing concern for global warming among 40 nations. Due to the hierarchical nature of the data, the study uses multilevel and Bayesian multilevel modeling to cross-culturally test the influence of nations' wealth, CO2 emissions, post-materialistic tendencies, religiosity, political orientation, and locus of control on concern for global warming. The results from 40 nations contradict the affluence hypothesis. The general pattern of the results shows that concern for global warming is a global phenomenon and not unique to the wealthy nations. We also found that concern for global warming is driven by religiosity, political orientation and internal locus of control. The findings of this paper highlight the importance of simultaneously assessing individual-and contextual-level variables in determining concern for global warming across nations.

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World Citizenship and Concern for Global Warming: Building the Case for a Strong International Civil Society

Cited by 47 publications

References 38 publications

My country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions

My country or my planet? Exploring the influence of multiple place attachments and ideological beliefs upon climate change attitudes and opinions

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Post-materialism, Religiosity, Political Orientation, Locus of Control and Concern for Global Warming: A Multilevel Analysis Across 40 Nations

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