Dear all,
Thanks for your responses to my query - there's a great literature
out there on this topic, as it turns out. Here in no particular order
are the suggestions I received,
Kate
Dunlap, Riley E. 1998. Lay perceptions of global risk: Public views of
global warming in cross-national contexts. International Sociology 13,
473-498. (Prof. Dunlap also has some newer pieces forthcoming)
Krosnick, Jon A.; Holbrook, Allyson L.; Lowe, Laura; Visser, Penny S.
2006.
The origins and consequences of democratic citizens' policy agenda: A
study of popular concern about global warming. Climatic Change, 7-43
Lave, Lester B; Dowlatabadi, Hadi. 1993. Climate change: the effects
of personal beliefs and scientific uncertainty. Environment, Science
and Technology 23(10), 1962-72
Leiserowitz, A., 2006. Climate change risk perception and policy
preferences:
the role of affect, imagery, and values. Climatic Change 77, 45–72.
Werff, Peter van der; Olsthoorn, Xander. 1995. Climate change: More
feared than fought -- a survey in Yokohama. STOP DISASTERS 23, 22-23.
Leiserowitz, Anthony A., Robert W. Kates, and Thomas M. Parris. 2006.
Sustainability values, attitudes, and behaviors: a review of
multinational and global trends. Annual Review of Environment and
Resources 31:413-444 (November).
Eurobarometer
World Public Opinion.org has done several international opinion polls
on climate change. http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/
btenvironmentra/index.php?nid=&id=&lb=bte
Kellstedt, Paul M.; Zahran, Sammy; Vedlitz, Arnold. 2008. Personal
efficacy, the information environment, and attitudes toward global
warming and climate change in the United States. Risk Analysis 28(1),
113-126.
Brechin, S.R. 1999. “Objective Problems, Subjective Values and Global
Environmentalism: Evaluating the Postmaterialist Argument and
Challenging A New Explanation” Social Science Quarterly, 80(4): 793-809.
Brechin, S.R. and W. Kempton, 1994. "Global Environmentalism: A
Challenge to the Postmaterialism Thesis?" Social Science Quarterly 74
(2): 245-269.
Mohai, P. 1985. "Public Concern and Elite Involvement in
Environmental-Conservation Issues." Social Science Quarterly 66(4):
820-838.
Zharan, Sammy, et al. "Climate Change Vulnerability and Policy
Support." Society & Natural Resources 19.9 (2006): 771-789.
Sunstein, Cass R. "The Availability Hueristic, Intuitive Cost-Benefit
Analysis, and Climate Change." Climatic Change 77.195-210 (2006).
