E. Keith Smith

TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of trust, risk perceptions and investigate the possibility of a "social trap" whereby a lack of trust blunts the effect of risk perceptions on public willingness to engage in behaviors or support policies to address climate change.

TL;DR: Although climate change is an urgent problem, behavioural and policy responses have not yet been sufficient to either reduce the volume of greenhouse gas emissions or adapt to a disrupted climate as discussed by the authors, which is not the case for many countries.

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between evangelical Protestants and the environment and found that biblical literalism is the most important predictor of environmental outcomes, while negative religious effects are more pronounced when questions concern future environmental outcomes but not current environmental concer...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use an array of dependent variables related to a number of different energy policy options and find substantial differences between Tea Party Republicans and mainstream Republicans on a range of attitudes, such as belief in climate change and attitudes towards immigrants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify human agency, social-institutional network structures, different spatial and temporal scales and increased complexity as key distinctive features underlying social tipping processes and propose a formal definition for social tipping process and filtering criteria for those processes that could be decisive for future trajectories towards climate action.