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 …
R Gifford, A Nilsson - International journal of psychology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We review the personal and social influences on pro‐environmental concern and behaviour, with an emphasis on recent research. The number of these influences suggests that …
Environmental challenges are often marked by an intergroup dimension. Political conservatives and progressives are divided on their beliefs about climate change, farmers …
MF Chen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
This study aims to extend the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model to explain people's intentions to engage in energy savings and carbon reduction behaviors that can help …
R Gifford - American psychologist, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Most people think climate change and sustainability are important problems, but too few global citizens engaged in high-greenhouse-gas-emitting behavior are engaged in enough …
Over the last three decades, climate change has become publicly defined as an important social problem deserving action. A substantial body of social science research examines the …
Agriculture is vulnerable to climate change and a source of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Farmers face pressures to adjust agricultural systems to make them more resilient in the face …
Policy-makers are interested in cost-effective and socially acceptable ways of encouraging the public to adopt more environmentally-friendly lifestyles. One area which UK policy …
EU Weber, PC Stern - American psychologist, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
This article considers scientific and public understandings of climate change and addresses the following question: Why is it that while scientific evidence has accumulated to document …