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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Environmental disasters and public-opinion formation: A natural experiment
Beteiligte:
Böhmelt, Tobias
Erschienen:
IOP Publishing, 2020
Erschienen in:
Environmental Research Communications, 2 (2020) 8, Seite 081002
Sprache:
Nicht zu entscheiden
DOI:
10.1088/2515-7620/abacaa
ISSN:
2515-7620
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Beschreibung:
Abstract This study leverages the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident as natural experiment to determine the causal impact environmental disasters may have on the formation of environmental public opinion. Using Eurobarometer data on more than 60,000 individuals’ attitudes toward environmental salience before and after the incident, I find that Fukushima had indeed a causal effect on whether people see the environment as a salient policy item. This impact is more strongly pronounced for what respondents think dominates the political agenda than for personal priorities. These results have important implications for the understanding of how public opinion about the environment is formed, and they have crucial consequences for the suspected link between policymaking and public opinion.