The contribution of asset management to climate change policies

How can we reasonably justify a climate policy goal if we accept that only possible consequences from climate change are known? Precautionary principles seem to offer promising guidelines for reasoning in such epistemic situations. This chapter presents two versions of the precautionary principle (PP) and defends one of them as morally justifiable. However, it argues that current versions of the PP do not allow discrimination between relevant climate change policies. Therefore, the chapter develops a further version of the PP, the Controllability Precautionary Principle (CPP), and defends its moral plausibility. The CPP incorporates the following idea: in a situation when the possible outcomes of the available actions cannot be ranked with regard to their value, the choice between available options for action should rest on the comparison of how well decision makers can control the processes of the implementation of the available strategies.

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Comparing respondents who passed versus failed an Instructional Manipulation Check: A case study about support for climate change policies

International Journal of Market Research ◽

10.1177/14707853211023039 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

pp. 408-415

Author(s):

Maria Rubio Juan ◽

Melanie Revilla

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

External Validity ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Online Survey ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Manipulation Check ◽

Climate Change Policies ◽

Instructional Manipulation ◽

Using Data

The presence of satisficers among survey respondents threatens survey data quality. To identify such respondents, Oppenheimer et al. developed the Instructional Manipulation Check (IMC), which has been used as a tool to exclude observations from the analyses. However, this practice has raised concerns regarding its effects on the external validity and the substantive conclusions of studies excluding respondents who fail an IMC. Thus, more research on the differences between respondents who pass versus fail an IMC regarding sociodemographic and attitudinal variables is needed. This study compares respondents who passed versus failed an IMC both for descriptive and causal analyses based on structural equation modeling (SEM) using data from an online survey implemented in Spain in 2019. These data were analyzed by Rubio Juan and Revilla without taking into account the results of the IMC. We find that those who passed the IMC do differ significantly from those who failed for two sociodemographic and five attitudinal variables, out of 18 variables compared. Moreover, in terms of substantive conclusions, differences between those who passed and failed the IMC vary depending on the specific variables under study.

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Framing Messages on the Economic Impact of Climate Change Policies: Effects on Climate Believers and Climate Skeptics

Environmental Communication ◽

10.1080/17524032.2021.1890175 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Mauro Bertolotti ◽

Patrizia Catellani ◽

Thomas Nelson

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Economic Impact ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Policies

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The Challenge of Geohazards in the Replacement of Hydrocarbon Pipelines

ASME 2015 International Pipeline Geotechnical Conference ◽

10.1115/ipg2015-8516 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Dario Zapata Posada ◽

Jaime Hernan Aristizabal Ceballos

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Land Use ◽

Asset Management ◽

Vice President ◽

Analytical Methodology

The effects of changes in land use and the effects of climate change have led to an increase in the morphodynamic processes that affect rights-of-way in Colombia. However, in view of the fact that these rights-of-way are considered to be the best possible routes in some areas in which the geological and geotechnical components are fairly complex, specialists are facing the challenge of establishing different perspectives for coexisting with the geohazards in these areas. This paper describes the analytical methodology implemented within Ecopetrol’s Office of the Vice President for Transportation and Logistics (VIT-Ecopetrol), in order to take this reality into account within the framework of proper asset management.

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