Consumption Patterns and Public Attitudes Toward Organic Foods: The Role of Climate Change Awareness

2022 ◽  
pp. 365-393
Author(s):  
Elena Raptou ◽  
Evangelos Manolas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Organic Foods

scholarly journals Evaluating Public Attitudes and Farmers’ Beliefs towards Climate Change Adaptation: Awareness, Perception, and Populism at European Level

Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Ricart ◽  
Jorge Olcina ◽  
Antonio Rico
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

The scientific understanding of climate change is firmly established; it is occurring, it is primarily due to human activities, and it poses potentially serious risks to human and natural systems. Nevertheless, public understanding of this phenomenon varies widely among farmers and the public, the two-target audience of this paper. This paper introduces two research questions: (1) How climate change is perceived by public-farmers’ nexus; and (2) How perception and populism (as a thin-ideology moved by social forces) interact? In order to address both questions, we review insights from different sources (literature, research projects, and public opinion services) over the last 10 years. The results proved how public experience of climate change is interdependent with the belief that climate change is happening. What is also notable is that the greater the years of farmers’ farming experiences, the greater the percentage rate of their climate change awareness. Differences among farmers and public perceptions were also noted. Uncertainty, coupled with skepticism, the media, and political will, are common findings when asking to farmers and the public for the main weaknesses in adaptation to climate change. However, scientific consensus, meteorological data, barriers to adaptation, and the role of technology are subjects in which both differ.

scholarly journals How Celebrities’ Green Messages on Twitter Influence Public Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Mitigate Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 7948
Author(s):  
Sejung Park
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Fear Appeals ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

This research adds to the growing body of literature on the role of celebrities as emergent spokespersons in climate advocacy using Twitter. This study investigates the effects of framing of celebrities’ messages (emotional framing and framing of celebrity involvement) on public attitudes and behaviors to address climate change. A sequential mediation process is examined with structural equation modeling. In addition, this study assesses the role of parasocial relationship (PSR) with celebrities as predictors and moderators of the impact of framing of celebrity involvement. The results indicate that fear appeals were more effective than hope appeals in driving participation in activism, but emotional framing did not affect any other variables. Framing of celebrity involvement appeals using first-person pronouns led to more positive attitudes, but had no effect on behaviors. In addition, PSR was a strong positive predictor of attitudes and behaviors.

Climate change, cultural cognition, and media effects: Worldviews drive news selectivity, biased processing, and polarized attitudes

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 985-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd P. Newman ◽  
Erik C. Nisbet ◽  
Matthew C. Nisbet
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Cognition ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Culturally Congruent ◽  
Biased Processing ◽  
Media Choices

According to cultural cognition theory, individuals hold opinions about politically contested issues like climate change that are consistent with their “cultural way of life,” conforming their opinions to how they think society should be organized and to what they perceive are the attitudes of their cultural peers. Yet despite dozens of cultural cognition studies, none have directly examined the role of the news media in facilitating these differential interpretations. To address this gap, drawing on a national survey of US adults administered in 2015, we statistically modeled the cultural cognition process in relation to news choices and media effects on public attitudes about climate change. Individuals possessing strongly held cultural worldviews, our findings show, not only choose news outlets where they expect to find culturally congruent arguments about climate change, but they also selectively process the arguments they encounter. Overall, our study demonstrates the substantial role that cultural cognition in combination with news media choices play in contributing to opinion polarization on climate change and other politicized science topics.

The changing meaning of millets: Organic shops and distinctive consumption practices in Bengaluru, India

2020 ◽  
pp. 146954052090250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirka Erler ◽  
Markus Keck ◽  
Christoph Dittrich
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Organic Foods ◽  
Consumption Practices

The number of organic shops in Bengaluru has increased remarkably in the last few years, with millets being the main products drawing consumers. Yet, organic shops are only attracting middle-class consumers. We observed and interviewed 104 customers in five organic shops in Bengaluru to find out why this is the case. In this article, we follow practice theory to discuss the reported consumption patterns. We show that consumers, influenced by commercials and the advice of medical and nutritional professionals, legitimize their consumption of organic foods as an investment in their future health. We show that the customers of organic shops legitimize their consumption practice with affective engagements; thereby, performing symbolic boundaries that distinguish them from other social classes. This distinction manifests itself in the consumption of millets, which contributes to the change of the meaning of this food from a life-sustaining staple to a lifestyle superfood. In this article, we take a critical look at the role of organic retailers and how they reproduce class-based consumption practices in India.

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.

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