scholarly journals Global Developments: Policy Support for Linking Biodiversity, Health and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 315-328
Author(s):  
Horst Korn ◽  
Jutta Stadler ◽  
Aletta Bonn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Support

The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward John Roy Clarke ◽  
Anna Klas ◽  
Joshua Stevenson ◽  
Emily Jane Kothe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Diverse Audience

Climate change is a politically-polarised issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to perceive it as human-caused and consequential. Furthermore, they are less likely to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver’s “A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate” clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarised or depolarised a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioural intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one gender unspecified, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver’s climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarisation (or increase it) relative to a control on mitigation policy support, it resulted in hyperpolarisation on support for adaptation policies and increased climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives.

Guatemala’s economy on the way to recovery

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Containment Measures ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

Significance National GDP nevertheless contracted by just 1.5% in 2020 -- less than almost any other country in Latin America. Resilient remittances and exports, coupled with unprecedented policy support, have mitigated the effects of the pandemic and subsequent containment measures, leaving the country better placed for recovery than its neighbours. Impacts Enduring poverty, inequality and violent crime, and the impacts of accelerating climate change, will drive further migration from Guatemala. The government will pursue banking law reforms, to reduce risks to financial activities in the post-pandemic business environment. Infighting and corruption scandals will hinder the opposition's ability to benefit from the decline of the president's popularity.

scholarly journals Modelling multiple threats to water security in the Peruvian Amazon using the WaterWorld policy support system

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. J. van Soesbergen ◽  
M. Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Water Quantity ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Gas Extraction ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Abstract. This paper describes the application of WaterWorld (www.policysupport.org/waterworld) to the Peruvian Amazon, an area that is increasingly under pressure from deforestation and water pollution as a result of population growth, rural-to-urban migration and oil and gas extraction, potentially impacting both water quantity and water quality. By applying single and combined plausible scenarios of climate change, deforestation around existing and planned roads, population growth and rural–urban migration, mining and oil and gas exploitation, we explore the potential combined impacts of these multiple changes on water resources in the Peruvian Amazon.

The Pope, Politics, and Climate Change: An Experimental Test of the Influence of News about Pope Francis on American Climate Change Attitudes and Intentions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gall Myrick ◽  
Suzannah Evans Comfort
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
News Story ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Climate Change Attitudes

News coverage of climate change has expanded beyond a focus on science to include stories relating the topic to religion, particularly following Pope Francis’ 2015 call for Catholics to address climate change as a moral responsibility. We tested how effective Pope Francis is as a messenger on the topic of climate change. A 2 (Pope: present or absent in the story) X 2 (news story topic: climate change or poverty) between-subjects experiment (N = 415) revealed that politically Independent participants reported more negative attitudes and lower behavioral intentions when the Pope was featured in a story than when he was not. Also, Catholic Democrats reported stronger climate change policy support when the Pope was featured in a story than when he was not, but Catholic Independents were more supportive when the Pope was not featured, regardless of topic. Results suggest religion and politics intersect to shape responses to climate messengers.

scholarly journals Development of an Impact Function of Buna (Fagus crenata) Forests For Climate Change Policy Support Models

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI ◽  
Tetsuya MATSUI ◽  
Yasuaki HIJIOKA ◽  
Nobuyuki TANAKA ◽  
Hideo HARASAWA
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Fagus Crenata ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Impact Function ◽  
Change Policy

scholarly journals Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 25-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Wang ◽  
Zoe Leviston ◽  
Mark Hurlstone ◽  
Carmen Lawrence ◽  
Iain Walker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Support

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES SCHEME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY SUPPORT MODELS

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naota HANASAKI ◽  
Yuji MASUTOMI ◽  
Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI ◽  
Yasuaki HIJIOKA ◽  
Hideo HARASAWA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Global Water
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