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oapen-20.500.12657-519462021-12-14T02:45:50Z Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior Hadler, Markus Klösch, Beate Schwarzinger, Stephan Schweighart, Markus Wardana, Rebecca Bird, David Neil climate research environmental sociology survey research environmental behaviour environmental attitudes carbon footprint climate survey methods Open Access bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government::JPQB Central government policies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGB Physical geography & topography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of climate-relevant behaviors with population surveys and develops an instrument that allows a valid estimate of an individual’s GHG emissions with a few core items. While the development of these instruments was based on surveys and qualitative interviews conducted in Austria, the instruments were subsequently tested in a set of 31 European countries, revealing the international relevance of such research. The book also concludes with a brief consideration of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on environmental attitudes, situating the project globally. 2021-12-13T18:55:36Z 2021-12-13T18:55:36Z 2022 book ONIX_20211213_9783030857967_25 9783030857967 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51946 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-85796-7.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-85796-7 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-85796-7 10.1007/978-3-030-85796-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 dcfbcf8e-6060-49b3-aad3-34f4f6e8e634 9783030857967 Palgrave Macmillan 159 Bern [grantnumber unknown] Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz University of Graz open access
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This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of climate-relevant behaviors with population surveys and develops an instrument that allows a valid estimate of an individual’s GHG emissions with a few core items. While the development of these instruments was based on surveys and qualitative interviews conducted in Austria, the instruments were subsequently tested in a set of 31 European countries, revealing the international relevance of such research. The book also concludes with a brief consideration of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on environmental attitudes, situating the project globally.
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