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Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Energy Futures Before and After the Fukushima Accident: A Comparison between Britain and Japan
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This paper used several nationally representative surveys from before and after the Fukushima accident to examine how it may have changed public perceptions of climate change and energy futures in Britain and Japan, and found that already before the accident the Japanese public were less supportive of nuclear power than the British.About:
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 76 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nuclear renaissance & Climate change mitigation.read more
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International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century
TL;DR: A recent systematic review as discussed by the authors considers previous empirical research that has addressed the temporal aspects to public perceptions of climate change, and concludes that the imbalance in the literature towards polling data, and toward studies of public perceptions in Western nations, particularly the United States, leaves much unknown about the progression of public understanding of global climate change worldwide.
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Climate change beliefs and perceptions of weather-related changes in the United Kingdom.
TL;DR: It is proposed that those wishing to engage with the public on the issue of climate change should not limit their focus to heat, and the importance of salient weather-related events and experiences in the formation of beliefs about climate change is highlighted.
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Nuclear power in Australia: A comparative analysis of public opinion regarding climate change and the Fukushima disaster
TL;DR: In a follow-up survey conducted in 2012, a majority of respondents were not willing to accept nuclear power as an option to help tackle climate change, despite the fact that most Australians still believed nuclear power to offer a cleaner, more efficient option than coal, which currently dominates the domestic production of energy.
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Preference Change in Competitive Political Environments
James N. Druckman,Arthur Lupia +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed research on preference change in competitive environments and discussed how individuals allocate attention and how individuals' values and identities affect their use of the information to which they attend, and how this work has been applied to a new problem: improving the communication of scientific facts in increasingly politicized environments.
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Public perception of energy transition in Korea: Nuclear power, climate change, and party preference
Ji-Bum Chung,Eun Sung Kim +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined public perception of energy, with focus on the relationship between nuclear power and climate change as well as party preferences, based on a nationally representative survey of Korea, and found that nuclear power represents the values of the elderly, materialists, developmentalists, and conservative political parties.
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Perceived risk, trust, and democracy
TL;DR: Risk management has become increasingly politicized and contentious, and polarized views, controversy, and overt conflict have become pervasive as discussed by the authors, which is a side effect of our remarkable form of participatory democracy, amplified by powerful technological and social changes that systematically destroy trust.
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Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet)
TL;DR: For example, this article found that when people base their decisions on statistical descriptions about a hazard provided by others, characteristics of the hazard identified as psychological risk dimensions predict differences in alarm or worry across different classes of risk.
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Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience
TL;DR: For example, this article found that those who report experience of flooding express more concern over climate change, see it as less uncertain and feel more confident that their actions will have an effect on climate change.
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Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S., 2002–2010
TL;DR: The authors conducted an empirical analysis of the factors affecting U.S. public concern about the threat of climate change between January 2002 and December 2010, using data from 74 separate surveys over a 9-year period.
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Uncertain climate: An investigation into public scepticism about anthropogenic climate change
TL;DR: This article investigated public scepticism about climate change in Britain using the trend, attribution, and impact scepticism framework of Rahmstorf (2004) and found that climate scepticism is currently not widespread in Britain.