scholarly journals Environmental Issues in Recent British and Canadian Elections

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-128
Author(s):  
Harold D. Clarke ◽  
Jon H. Pammett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Critical Set ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voting Decisions ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Public Opinion Polls

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN RECENT BRITISH AND CANADIAN ELECTIONS               The 2019 elections in Britain and Canada illustrate the difficulties in communication between a concerned public and prospective office-holders on the most critical set of issues of our times.  An increased level of public awareness and concern about the state of the environment has been expressed in public opinion polls, social movement activity has increased, and Green parties have expanded their appeal.  Despite these developments in recent years, environmental issues have not been able to exert a major impact on individual voting behaviour in elections, or on overall election outcomes.  Issues related to the environment are usually treated, by both politicians and the public, in valence terms.  Valence issues are ones upon which there is broad consensus about the goals of public policy, and political debate focuses not on "what to accomplish" but rather on "how to do it" and "who is best able."  Regarding the environment, general formulations like global warming and climate change prompt politicians to offer concerned rhetoric and engage in virtue signaling, but specific policy proposals are often absent.                 This paper examines four reasons why environmental/climate change issues did not have a major impact on the 2019 Canadian and British elections. First, environmental concern in society at large was imperfectly translated into election issues.  Second, the major political parties produced inadequate and unconvincing environmental manifestos.  Third, environmental issues were not central to most voting decisions. Fourth, environmental issues had limited impacts on election outcomes.

Growing Inequality and Public Awareness of Inequality in the States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Franko ◽  
Christopher Witko
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Perceptions Of Inequality ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls

Here the authors present the variation that exists in income inequality across the states, and variation in public awareness or concern about income inequality as measured by public opinion polls. Though politicians may decide to tackle income inequality even in the absence of public concern about inequality, the authors argue that government responses are more likely when and where there is a growing awareness of, and concern about, inequality, which is confirmed in the analyses in this book. To examine this question in subsequent chapters, a novel measure of public awareness of rising state inequality is developed. Using these estimates, this chapter shows that the growth in the public concern about inequality responds in part to objective increases in inequality, but also that state political conditions, particularly mass partisanship, shape perceptions of inequality.

scholarly journals What Affects Chinese Residents’ Perceptions of Climate Change?

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinjia Wu ◽  
Jiansheng Qu ◽  
Hengji Li ◽  
Li Xu ◽  
Hongfen Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation

The theme of global sustainable development has changed from environmental management to climate governance, and relevant policies on climate governance urgently need to be implemented by the public. The public understanding of climate change has become the prerequisite and basis for implementing various climate change policies. In order to explore the affected factors of climate change perception among Chinese residents, this study was conducted across 31 provinces and regions of China through field household surveys and interviews. Combined with the residents’ perception of climate change with the possible affected factors, the related factors affecting Chinese residents’ perception of climate change were explored. The results show that the perceptive level of climate change of Chinese residents is related to the education level and the household size of residents. Improving public awareness of climate change risk in the context of climate change through multiple channels will also help to improve residents’ awareness of climate change. On the premise of improving the level of national education, improving education on climate change in school education and raising awareness of climate change risk among dependents will help to improve the level of Chinese residents’ awareness of climate change, which could be instrumental in promoting public participation in climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.

Measuring climate change on Twitter using Google’s algorithm: perception and events

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdeen Hamed ◽  
Alexa A. Ayer ◽  
Eric M. Clark ◽  
Erin A. Irons ◽  
Grant T. Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Ranking Algorithm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Worldwide Population ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Earth Day

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis of whether more complex and emergent hashtags can be sufficient pointers to climate change events. Human-induced climate change is one of this century’s greatest unbalancing forces to have affected our planet. Capturing the public awareness of climate change on Twitter has proven to be significant. In a previous research, it was demonstrated by the authors that public awareness is prominently expressed in the form of hashtags that uses more than one bigram (i.e. a climate change term). The research finding showed that this awareness is expressed by more complex terms (e.g. “climate change”). It was learned that the awareness was dominantly expressed using the hashtag: #ClimateChange. Design/methodology/approach – The methods demonstrated here use objective computational approaches [i.e. Google’s ranking algorithm and Information Retrieval measures (e.g. TFIDF)] to detect and rank the emerging events. Findings – The results shows a clear significant evidence for the events signaled using emergent hashtags and how globally influential they are. The research detected the Earth Day, 2015, which was signaled using the hashtag #EarthDay. Clearly, this is a day that is globally observed by the worldwide population. Originality/value – It was proven that these computational methods eliminate the subjectivity errors associated with humans and provide inexpensive solution for event detection on Twitter. Indeed, the approach used here can also be applicable to other types of event detections, beyond climate change, and surely applicable to other social media platforms that support the use of hashtags (e.g. Facebook). The paper explains, in great detail, the methods and all the numerous events detected.

The Awareness and Impact of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) on Climate Change in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulkipli Ghazali ◽  
Muhammad Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
And Storage

This article aims to investigate the level of public awareness and perception regarding carbon capture and storage (CCS) and climate change in Malaysia. The article also aims to identify those social, economic and environmental issues which affect CCS and combating climate change in the country. The findings revealed that more than 79 percent of the respondents were willing to have government initiatives to implement CCS projects. However, about 21 percent were against these initiatives due to their different perceptions and opinions regarding CCS. By using partial least squares (PLS) model through SmartPLS 2.0, it is found that social and economic issues of CCS have significant positive while environmental issues have no significant impact on combating climate change. The findings offer significant implications for regulators, policy makers, and practitioners regarding social, economic and environmental issues of CCS and climate change in Malaysia.

scholarly journals Public Perception towards Waste-to-Energy as a Waste Management Strategy: A Case from Shandong, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueliang Yuan ◽  
Xiaohan Fan ◽  
Jiaxin Liang ◽  
Mengyue Liu ◽  
Yuqiang Teng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
National Level ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Public Attitude ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
The Public

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is posing great challenge for most countries in the world, which can cause severe negative impacts to the environment and human health. Waste-to-energy has great potential in China because of its technological maturity and policy support at the national level. However, there are significant conflicts between the huge market demand and strong public opposition. It is imperative to examine the public perception of waste-to-energy, especially for developing countries where a large number of projects are under construction or have been approved. The public perception of waste-to-energy was carried out by a questionnaire survey in this research. A total of 650 questionnaires were distributed and 629 questionnaires were returned, with a response rate of 96.8%. The results show that the public showed general concern in regard to environmental issues. Respondents had an overall positive attitude towards waste-to-energy, but it varied according to the demographic details of residents, such as age, education, and income. Recognition level of the benefits was higher than the concern of associated risks. Multiple linear regression shows that awareness of environmental issues had no impact on public attitude towards waste-to-energy, while public awareness and perceived benefits had notable positive impacts. Perceived risks had a positive correlation with public attitude. In order to promote the development of MSW incinerators, the government should make more publicity efforts. Rural residents, people over 50 years old, and people with low education and low income are the major groups which should be focused on to enhance the public perception. The findings provide a theoretical and practical reference for enhancing the social acceptance of waste-to-energy development.

scholarly journals Public Awareness Campaigns Model of Global Civil Society at the Local Level: Case of Earth Hour Malang

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Najamuddin Khairur Rijal ◽  
Radityo Widiatmojo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Media Data

The purpose of this research is to elaborate the model of public awareness campaigns conducted by global civil society actors at the local level, with studies of Earth Hour Malang. Earth Hour Malang’s public awareness campaigns are related to efforts to fight for environmental issues to gain attention with the society and stakeholders. This research used the global civil society framework, specifically the public awareness campaigns (PAC), conducted through interviews and documentation studies on Earth Hour Malang Social media. Social media data is analyzed using the NCapture feature in the NVivo 12 Plus. The results showed that Earth Hour Malang integrates offline and online approaches through various instruments in conducting campaigns. The goal is to raise public, business, and government awareness of environmental issues, encourage changes in green lifestyle-oriented behavior, changes in business activity and orientation, and pro-environmental policy changes.Keywords: Earth Hour, environmental issues, global civil society, public awareness campaignsTujuan penelitian ini adalah mengelaborasi model kampanye kesadaran publik yang dilakukan oleh aktor global civil society di level lokal, dengan studi pada Earth Hour Malang. Kampanye kesadaran publik yang dilakukan Earth Hour Malang berkaitan dengan usaha memperjuangkan isu lingkungan agar dapat memperoleh perhatian bersama masyarakat dan pemangku kepentingan. Dengan menggunakan konsep global civil society dan public awareness campaigns, penelitian dilakukan melalui wawancara dan studi dokumentasi pada media sosial Earth Hour Malang. Data media sosial dianalisis menggunakan fitur NCapture pada aplikasi NVivo 12 Plus. Adapun hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Earth Hour Malang mengintegrasikan pendekatan luring dan daring melalui beragam instrumen dalam melakukan kampanye. Tujuannya adalah menumbuhkan kesadaran masyarakat, sektor bisnis, dan pemerintah terhadap isu dan persoalan lingkungan sehingga mendorong perubahan perilaku masyarakat berorientasi gaya hidup hijau, perubahan aktivitas dan orientasi bisnis, serta perubahan kebijakan yang pro-lingkungan.Kata-kata Kunci: Earth Hour, global civil society, isu lingkungan, kampanye kesadaran publik

The Awareness and Impact of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) on Climate Change in Malaysia

2022 ◽  
pp. 1303-1319
Author(s):  
Zulkipli Ghazali ◽  
Muhammad Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
And Storage

This article aims to investigate the level of public awareness and perception regarding carbon capture and storage (CCS) and climate change in Malaysia. The article also aims to identify those social, economic and environmental issues which affect CCS and combating climate change in the country. The findings revealed that more than 79 percent of the respondents were willing to have government initiatives to implement CCS projects. However, about 21 percent were against these initiatives due to their different perceptions and opinions regarding CCS. By using partial least squares (PLS) model through SmartPLS 2.0, it is found that social and economic issues of CCS have significant positive while environmental issues have no significant impact on combating climate change. The findings offer significant implications for regulators, policy makers, and practitioners regarding social, economic and environmental issues of CCS and climate change in Malaysia.

scholarly journals How Are Our Future Agriculture and Natural Resources Projected under Varying Climate?

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Gu Her ◽  
Ashley Smyth ◽  
Zachary Brym ◽  
Elias Bassil
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Biological Engineering ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Plans

This 8-page article explains how agriculture and natural resources may respond to projected future climate and how climate projections can be useful in developing management plans for the improved sustainability of Florida’s agriculture and natural resources. It also aims to help increase the public awareness of climate change impacts on Florida and improve understanding of the connections among climate, agriculture, and natural resources. Written by Young Gu Her, Ashley Smyth, Zachary Brym, and Elias Bassil, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, September 2020.

scholarly journals Environmental awareness among the industrial workers: A study in Tangail district, Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
SC Shil ◽  
BC Sarker ◽  
A Akter ◽  
B Bakali
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Level Of Understanding

The Principal determination of the study was to fix the extent of environmental sentience among the different classes of industrial workers. A hundred ten workers were selected through purposive sampling technique from several industries in the region of Tangail district, Bangladesh. Among the selected workers, the female respondents were 37 in number and rests of the 73 were male. The workers were asked questions to appraise their level of understanding considering environment, environmental issues, and their persuasion to solve the different environmental problems. The determinations disclosed that, majority (91.8%) of the workers have approximately general conception about environment, idea about pollution of environmental constituents, Global warming and climate change awareness. From the view of most (85.5%) of the workers, the country is most vulnerable due to environmental pollution and not executing competent rules and ordinance along with public awareness. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbau.v11i1.18228 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 11(1): 159-164, 2013

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