Arnold Vedlitz

TL;DR: It is found that public informedness, confidence in scientists, and personal efficacy are related in interesting and unexpected ways, and exert significant influence on risk assessments of global warming and climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of place and proximity in public perceptions of global climate change has been examined, and the most important indicators shaping individual risk perception are identified and explained using Bivariate correlation and multivariate regression analyses.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated five models of participation to determine whether factors associated with Anglo and African-American participation are also associated with Mexican-American and Asian-American participants, and found that although the models apply differentially to each of the four groups, they nonetheless account for participation differences across racial/ethnic groups.

TL;DR: This article used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analytic techniques to map and measure survey respondents' climate change risk at various levels of spatial resolution and precision, including demographic, attitudinal and perception-based variables derived from a representative national survey of U.S. residents.

TL;DR: This research void is addressed by analysing 832 countywide flood events in Texas from 1997-2001 to examine whether geographic localities characterised by high percentages of socially vulnerable populations experience significantly more casualties due to flood events, adjusting for characteristics of the natural and built environment.