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How Do Lay People Perceive Climate-Change Related Risks?

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  • Simone Cerroni

    (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei)

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The study of climate change perceptions of people Many studies in psychology suggest that laypeople perceive climate change as a moderate risk. While the climate changes were described as an abstract phenomenon in previous investigations, here we describe climate change as the source of a concrete environmental risk, similar to the pine beetle infestation risk of the Texas forest. Texans believe that climate change will increase the pine beetle infestation risk and that a big proportion of pine forests in the state will be damaged by the year 2050. We conclude that people’s perception increases when these risks have direct and negative consequences on their own lives.

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  • Simone Cerroni, 2012. "How Do Lay People Perceive Climate-Change Related Risks?," Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femre3:2012.01-02
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    Keywords

    Climate Change; Risk Perception;

    JEL classification:

    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry

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