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Progress, Decline, and the Public Uptake of Climate Science (2014)

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Climate change Climate and climatology Public opinion Public understanding of science Cross-cultural comparison Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships Controversies and disputes 20th century, late 21st century Islands of the Pacific

Previous research has sought to explain public perception of climate change science in terms of individuals' prior commitment to such ideological stances as just-world belief, system justification, and liberalism/conservatism. One type of prior commitment that has received little formal attention in the literature is narratives of the moral trajectory of society. A theory of climate science uptake based on beliefs in societal progress or decline is more easily portable to non-Western settings; in a case study of global warming attitudes in the Marshall Islands, trajectory narratives indeed account for public belief, concern, blame, and response more aptly than existing theories, and accord well with qualitative analysis of Marshallese climate change discourse. In Western settings, progress/decline narratives may explain much of the variation in climate change attitudes previously accounted for by other ideological variables, promising a more penetrating explanation for the divergence of climate change attitudes within and between societies.

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Authors & Contributors
Lafita, Íngrid
Wibeck, Victoria
Tschinkel, Walter R.
Tschinkel, Victoria J.
Terracina-Hartman, Carol
Sommerfeld, Jeffrey
Journals
Public Understanding of Science
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Journal of Historical Geography
Science as Culture
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Toronto
Concepts
Climate change
Public understanding of science
Controversies and disputes
Public opinion
Climate and climatology
Mass media
People
Nierenberg, William Aaron
Prusiner, Stanley B.
Gore, Albert
Callendar, Guy Stewart
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Sweden
China
Canada
Australia
Institutions
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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