A social trap for the climate? Collective action, trust and climate change risk perception in 35 countries

EK Smith, A Mayer - Global Environmental Change, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate change presents a global problem that requires a collective, coordinated response
to reduce the rate of greenhouse gases currently emitted. But, even in the face of these …

What do you think about climate change?

D Baiardi - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To answer this question, this paper reviews the huge and growing body of empirical
literature on climate change awareness and summarizes insights emerging from a critical …

Evaluating the role of social norms in fostering pro-environmental behaviors

GLW Perry, SJ Richardson, N Harré… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human activity is changing the biosphere in unprecedented ways, and addressing this
challenge will require changes in individual and community patterns of behavior. One …

More than a nudge? Arguments and tools for mandating green public procurement in the EU

L Mélon - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The present research paper analyses the EU general and mandatory sectoral legal
framework on public procurement, arguing for its inhibiting effect on the EU-wide uptake of …

When will people pay to pollute? Environmental taxes, political trust and experimental evidence from Britain

M Fairbrother - British Journal of Political Science, 2019 - cambridge.org
This article presents results from survey experiments investigating conditions under which
Britons are willing to pay taxes on polluting activities. People are no more willing if revenues …

Corruption, inequalities and the perceived effectiveness of economic pro-environmental policy instruments: A European cross-national study

N Harring - Environmental Science & Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
The aim of this article is to explain cross-national differences in perceptions regarding the
effectiveness of economic pro-environmental policy instruments (EIs). Using data for the …

Reward or punish? Understanding preferences toward economic or regulatory instruments in a cross-national perspective

N Harring - Political Studies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This study is interested in cross-national differences in public preferences toward different
forms of political steering. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme it was …

Trust, political orientation, and environmental behavior

H Taniguchi, GA Marshall - Environmental Politics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A growing body of large-N cross-national studies has identified key predictors of
environmental behavior. Adopting a social dilemma perspective, where individuals must …

Collective action in waste management: A comparative study of recycling and recovery initiatives from Brazil, Indonesia, and Nigeria using the institutional analysis …

J Oh, H Hettiarachchi - Recycling, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recycling and recovery provide not only a sustainable option to decrease the volume of
waste that needs final disposal, but also a blueprint to a circular economy. However, rates of …

The environmental Kuznets curve reconsidered

WK Jaeger, V Kolpin, R Siegel - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis, whereby pollution first increases then
decreases as income increases along an inverted U-shaped path, has generated a large …