What explains public support for climate policies? A review of empirical and experimental studies

S Drews, JCJM Van den Bergh - Climate policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The lack of broad public support prevents the implementation of effective climate policies.
This article aims to examine why citizens support or reject climate policies. For this purpose …

Attitudes toward climate change mitigation policies: a review of measures and a construct of policy attitudes

E Kyselá, M Ščasný, I Zvěřinová - Climate Policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Research on policy support or public acceptability of climate change policies is proliferating.
There is, however, a great diversity in how these evaluative responses have been defined …

French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies

T Douenne, A Fabre - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the prospects for French climate policies after the Yellow Vests
crisis halted the planned increase in the carbon tax. From a large representative survey, we …

Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical?

C Schubert - Ecological economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Environmental policies are increasingly informed by behavioral economics insights.'Green
nudges' in particular have been suggested as a promising new tool to encourage …

Political orientation, environmental values, and climate change beliefs and attitudes: An empirical cross country analysis

A Ziegler - Energy Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Based on unique data from representative computer-based surveys among more than 3400
citizens, this paper empirically examines the determinants of several climate change beliefs …

Exploring citizen support for different types of climate policy

E Rhodes, J Axsen, M Jaccard - Ecological Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Citizen support for climate policies is considered an important criterion in climate policy-
making. While there is a growing body of literature exploring factors of citizen support, most …

Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal

N Harring, E Jönsson, S Matti, G Mundaca… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In 2021, governments of 51 countries spent US $697 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels.
Removing fossil fuel subsidies is crucial not only for reducing CO2 emissions and making …

[HTML][HTML] The role of trust in citizen acceptance of climate policy: Comparing perceptions of government competence, integrity and value similarity

S Kitt, J Axsen, Z Long, E Rhodes - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the role of citizen trust in explaining climate policy support, using the
case of low-carbon transportation policies in Canada–namely a carbon tax, electric vehicle …

Household acceptability of energy efficiency policies in the European Union: Policy characteristics trade-offs and the role of trust in government and environmental …

C Faure, MC Guetlein, J Schleich, G Tu… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
This research investigates the acceptability of energy efficiency policies among European
households. Based on large-scale surveys in Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, we use a …

[HTML][HTML] Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: an analysis of tools available in US environmental law

RK Craig, AS Garmestani, CR Allen… - Ecology and society …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adaptive governance must work “on the ground,” that is, it must operate through structures
and procedures that the people it governs perceive to be legitimate and fair, as well as …