Public Engagement Flashcards
Who created the information deficit model?
Smith (2005)
What % of the American public are concerned or alarmed about climate change? What source?
51% - Global Warming’s Six Americas by the Yale Research Programme
Who created the Social Amplification of Risk model?
Kasperson et al. (1988)
Who elaborated on the SARF model in regards to climate change?
Corner, Markowitz Pidgeon (2014) - Specific feeling and beliefs about climate change are determined by how the impacts and causes can be associated with group’s values
Who created the idea of the positive spillover effect and what is it?
Corner, Markwotiz, Pidgeon (2014) - carrying out one mitigation strategy towards climate change will likely lead to additional similar actions in the futrue
What did Lorenzoni, Nicholson-Cole, Whitmarsh (2007) state?
Wider structural change is needed to facilitate more citizens reducing carbon dependency and adopting more sustainable lifestyles
Who said that Carbon is not a daily consideration for people and came up with the idea of carbon capacity?
Whitmarsh, O’Neill, Seyfang (2011)
What is carbon capacity?
The ability of people to enact various GHG (carbon) emissions reduction schemes
Who outlined various challenging traits to the climate change problem that make it difficult to engage with? what are some of these challenges?
Moses (2010) - invisible causes, distant impacts, technological optimism, psychological distancing, comprehending the science facts
What were some of the suggestions put forward by Moses (2010) for increasing public engagement?
Make knowledge more case specific, encourage cross-national research, framing of the problem specific to audience,
