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DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.002 |
Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries | |
Amelung, Dorothee1; Fischer, Helen1; Herrmann, Alina2; Aall, Carlo4; Louis, Valerie R.2; Becher, Heiko5; Wilkinson, Paul3; Sauerborn, Rainer2 | |
2019-07-01 | |
发表期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
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ISSN | 0959-3780 |
EISSN | 1872-9495 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 57 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; England; Norway |
英文摘要 | Invoking health benefits to promote climate-friendly household behavior has three unique advantages: (i) health co-benefits accrue directly to the acting individual, they are "private goods" rather than public ones; (ii) the evidence base for, and magnitude of health co-benefits is well-established; and (iii) the idea of a healthy life-style is well-engrained in public discourse, much more so than that of a climate-friendly life-style. In previous research, assessing the influence of information on health effects on people's motivation to adopt mitigation actions, health co-benefits for the individual were typically confounded with collective health co-benefits, for example from pollution reduction. The present research aims to overcome this limitation by providing information on individual health co-benefits that are unconditional on the actions of others (direct health co-benefits). We report effects of this kind of health information on stated willingness to adopt mitigation actions as well as on simulation-based carbon emission reductions in a pre-registered experimental setting among 308 households in 4 mid-size case-study cities in 4 European high-income countries: France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. For each mitigation action from the sectors food, housing, and mobility, half of the sample received the amount of CO2 equivalents (CO2-eq) saved and the financial costs or savings the respective action generated. The other half additionally received information on direct health co-benefits, where applicable. For households receiving information on direct health co-benefits, we find a higher mean willingness to adopt food and housing actions, and a greater proportion very willing to adopt one or more mitigation actions (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.1, 3.12); and a greater simulated reduction in overall carbon footprint: difference in percent reduction -2.70%, (95% CI -5.34, -0.04) overall and -4.45%, (95% CI -8.26, -0.64) for food. Our study is the first to show that providing information on strictly unconditional, individual health co-benefits can motivate households in high-income countries to adopt mitigation actions. |
英文关键词 | Climate change Health co-benefits Mitigation Household preferences Health Behavior |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000480375400006 |
WOS关键词 | BEHAVIOR ; POLICIES ; ENERGY |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/184653 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Hosp Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 2.Univ Hosp Heidelberg, Inst Publ Hlth, Heidelberg, Germany; 3.London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, London, England; 4.Western Norway Res Inst, Sogndal, Norway; 5.Univ Med Ctr Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Amelung, Dorothee,Fischer, Helen,Herrmann, Alina,et al. Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2019,57. |
APA | Amelung, Dorothee.,Fischer, Helen.,Herrmann, Alina.,Aall, Carlo.,Louis, Valerie R..,...&Sauerborn, Rainer.(2019).Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,57. |
MLA | Amelung, Dorothee,et al."Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 57(2019). |
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