When do people take action? The importance of people’s observation that nature is changing for pro-environmental behavior within the field of impersonal, environmental risk

When do people take action? The importance of people’s observation that nature is changing for pro-environmental behavior within the field of impersonal, environmental risk

Prior experience has shown to be a highly influencing factor for risk perceptions and behavioral patterns. Yet, often prior experience is connected to a personal threat and damage. We assume that people’s mere perception of nature changes, even if it is an impersonal risk and therefore not threateni...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Rogers, Cornelia Wallner, Bernhard Goodwin, Werner Heitland, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Hans-Bernd Brosius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Subjects:
Risk perception
environmental communication
direct experience
survey
field experiment
interdisciplinary research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2016.1268165

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1943815X.2016.1268165

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