Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia. (August 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia. (August 2017)
- Main Title:
- Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia
- Authors:
- Tranter, Bruce
Lester, Libby - Abstract:
- Echoing the anti-pollution and resource conservation campaigns in the United States in the early-to-mid-twentieth century, some scholars advocate mobilising support for environmental issues by harnessing the notion of environmental patriotism. Taking action to reduce the impact of global warming has also been cast as a patriotic cause. Drawing upon quantitative data from a recent national survey, we examine the link between patriotism and environmental attitudes in Australia, focussing upon climate change. We find that patriotism has a largely neutral association with concern over environmental issues, with the exception of climate change and, to a lesser extent, wildlife preservation. Expressing concern over climate change appears to be unpatriotic for some Australians. Even after controlling for political party identification and other important correlates of environmental issue concerns, patriots are less likely than others to prioritise climate change as their most urgent environmental issue and less likely to believe that climate change is actually occurring.
- Is Part Of:
- Public understanding of science. Volume 26:Number 6(2017)
- Journal:
- Public understanding of science
- Issue:
- Volume 26:Number 6(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 26, Issue 6 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0026-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 738
- Page End:
- 752
- Publication Date:
- 2017-08
- Subjects:
- Australia -- climate change -- environmental issues -- patriots -- public attitudes -- scepticism
Science news -- Periodicals
Science -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
303.483 - Journal URLs:
- http://pus.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0963662515618553 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0963-6625
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- Legaldeposit
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