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Cultural Worldview, Psychological Distance, and Americans’ Support for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Policy

Singh, Ajay Sarangdevot

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sets an objective for members of the Conference of the Parties to stabilize greenhouse gases concentrations to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” Meeting this objective assumes humans have a significant effect on climate and those changes will lead threats to humans and the environment. Implementing the UNFCCC and subsequent protocols will require members of the Conference of Parties to ratify binding agreements which set emission standards and establish mechanisms to mitigate those emissions to prevent dangerous interference with the climate system or increase society’s ability to adapt to changes in order to avoid danger. Creating and adopting agreements at the Federal level in the United States has proved difficult. Opposition to ratifying protocols and amendments agreed upon by other COP members or adopting policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions can be explained by various social, political, and psychological factors. The purpose of this dissertation is to continue an exploration of how cultural worldviews and psychological distance of climate impacts influences levels of support for mitigation and adaptation approaches to addressing climate change.
Jeremy Bruskotter, Dr. (Committee Co-Chair)
Tomas Koontz, Dr (Committee Co-Chair)
Eric Toman, Dr. (Committee Member)
Robyn Wilson, Dr. (Committee Member)
141 p.

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  • Singh, A. S. (2015). Cultural Worldview, Psychological Distance, and Americans’ Support for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Policy [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420799123

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Singh, Ajay. Cultural Worldview, Psychological Distance, and Americans’ Support for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Policy. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420799123.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Singh, Ajay. "Cultural Worldview, Psychological Distance, and Americans’ Support for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Policy." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420799123

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)