Date of Award
2006
Document Type
Senior Scholars Paper (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Economics Dept.
Advisor(s)
Thomas H. Tietenberg
Second Advisor
Philip Brown
Third Advisor
Andreas Waldkirch
Abstract
A multitude of views characterize what should or should not be done about climate change, and in the past decades, nations have acted very differently in the face of climate change. This study explores factors that affect individuals' attitudes and concerns towards the environment and how those attitudes ultimately affect climate change policy. One model investigates the link between individual attitudes and countries' actions on climate change, and the results show that attitudes indeed matter in the implementation of policy. Different measures of democracy such as freedom of the press also prove to be important as channels for these attitudes. A second model identifies a number of political, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics that matter for people's attitudes towards climate change.
Keywords
climate change, individual's attiudes, climate change policy, democracy, freedom of press
Recommended Citation
Tjernstrom, Emilia, "Be the Change You Wish to See: National Attiudes and Climate Change Policy" (2006). Senior Scholar Papers. Paper 372.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/seniorscholars/372
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