university education trumps value profile
Blennow, Kristina and Persson, Johannes and Persson, Erik and Hanewinkel, Marc
(2016).
Forest owners' response to climate change.
PloS one. 11
:5
, 1-13
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155137
Abstract
Do forest owners' levels of education or value profiles explain their responses to climate change? The cultural cognition thesis (CCT) has cast serious doubt on the familiar and often criticized "knowledge deficit" model, which says that laypeople are less concerned about climate change because they lack scientific knowledge. Advocates of CCT maintain that citizens with the highest degrees of scientific literacy and numeracy are not the most concerned about climate change. Rather, this is the group in which cultural polarization is greatest, and thus individuals with more limited scientific literacy and numeracy are more concerned about climate change under certain circumstances than those with higher scientific literacy and numeracy. The CCT predicts that cultural and other values will trump the positive effects of education on some forest owners' attitudes to climate change. Here, using survey data collected in 2010 from 766 private forest owners in Sweden and Germany, we provide the first evidence that perceptions of climate change risk are uncorrelated with, or sometimes positively correlated with, education level and can be explained without reference to cultural or other values. We conclude that the recent claim that advanced scientific literacy and numeracy polarizes perceptions of climate change risk is unsupported by the forest owner data. In neither of the two countries was university education found to reduce the perception of risk from climate change. Indeed in most cases university education increased the perception of risk. Even more importantly, the effect of university education was not dependent on the individuals' value profile.
Authors/Creators: | Blennow, Kristina and Persson, Johannes and Persson, Erik and Hanewinkel, Marc | ||||||
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Title: | Forest owners' response to climate change | ||||||
Subtitle: | university education trumps value profile | ||||||
Series/Journal: | PloS one (1932-6203) | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2016 | ||||||
Volume: | 11 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Page range: | 1-13 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Agris subject categories.: | P Natural resources > P40 Meteorology and climatology X Agricola extesions > X80 Social sciences, humanities and education | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 405 Other Agricultural Sciences > Other Agricultural Sciences not elsewhere specified (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 2 Engineering and Technology > 211 Other Engineering and Technologies > Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Climate Research (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507) | ||||||
Agrovoc terms: | forest managers, climate change, attitudes, education | ||||||
Keywords: | climate change response, climate change adaptation, climate change, scientific literacy, forest owner, forest | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3574 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3574 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 13533 | ||||||
Faculty: | LTV - Fakulteten för landskapsarkitektur, trädgårds- och växtproduktionsvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (LTJ, LTV) > Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101) | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 02 Aug 2016 11:14 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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