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Sist endret: 18. september 2020, 15:50
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2020
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2020

The role of personal experiences in Norwegian perceptions of climate change

Bidragsytere:
  • Päivi Lujala og
  • Haakon Lein

Tidsskrift

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
ISSN 0029-1951
e-ISSN 1502-5292
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2020
Volum: 74
Hefte: 3
Sider: 138 - 151

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85080127217

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Tittel

The role of personal experiences in Norwegian perceptions of climate change

Sammendrag

It is commonly assumed that personal experiences of a changing climate will influence people’s attitudes to the extent that they will be more likely to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change as a real threat and therefore be more willing to accept both mitigation and adaptation efforts. In the article, the authors examine how survey participants’ personal experiences of extreme events and climate-related changes in the natural environment influenced their perceptions of climate change. Using data from a nationally representative survey conducted in Norway in 2015 and the results of logistic regressions, the authors find that individual observations of changes in nature were linked to higher levels of concern with regard to climate change, as well as to attitudes that were more positive towards personal mitigation and adaption efforts. Somewhat counter-intuitively, they also find that participants who had personally experienced a natural hazard event were less concerned about climate change compared with participants without such experiences. The authors conclude that personal experience of the consequences of climate change may in some cases have a limited effect on enhancing people’s concerns about climate change.

Bidragsytere

Paivi Lujala

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Päivi Lujala
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Oulun yliopisto
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for geografi ved Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

Haakon Lein

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for geografi ved Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
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