DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1378-2
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84933675738
论文题名: The relationship between climate change concern and national wealth
作者: Lo A.Y. ; Chow A.T.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2015
卷: 131, 期: 2 起始页码: 335
结束页码: 348
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Surveys
; Adaptive capacity
; Cross-national
; Economic resources
; Gross domestic products
; Per capita
; Perceived risk
; Security and protection
; Social survey
; Climate change
; climate change
; cohort analysis
; Gross Domestic Product
; national economy
; perception
英文摘要: Based on a cross-national social survey, this paper ascertains how perception of climate change is related to national wealth and adaptive capacity across 33 countries. Results indicate that citizens of wealthier countries tend to see climate change as the most important problem, but are less likely to rank it as a highly dangerous threat. We find that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita correlates positively with perceived importance of climate change, but negatively with perceived risk. Also, climate change is less likely to be seen as highly dangerous in those countries that are better prepared for climate change. These findings have important implications for climate adaptation. The relatively weaker sense of danger among the wealthiest societies may eventually lead to maladaptation to climate change. Adequate economic resources provide people collective security and protection from impending crises, but could elevate a self-assuring attitude that might prematurely reduce their caution toward the impending threat and capacity for dealing with climate uncertainties. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84581
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: The Kadoorie Institute, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China; Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, Georgetown, SC, United States
Recommended Citation:
Lo A.Y.,Chow A.T.. The relationship between climate change concern and national wealth[J]. Climatic Change,2015-01-01,131(2)