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Verfasst von: | Amelung, Dorothee [VerfasserIn]  |
| Fischer, Helen [VerfasserIn]  |
| Herrmann, Alina [VerfasserIn]  |
| Louis, Valérie R. [VerfasserIn]  |
| Sauerborn, Rainer [VerfasserIn]  |
Titel: | Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation |
Titelzusatz: | results from four European high-income countries |
Verf.angabe: | Dorothee Amelung, Helen Fischer, Alina Herrmann, Carlo Aall, Valerie R. Louis, Heiko Becher, Paul Wilkinson, Rainer Sauerborn |
E-Jahr: | 2019 |
Jahr: | July 2019 |
Umfang: | 9 S. |
Teil: | volume:57 |
| year:2019 |
| pages:101918 |
| extent:9 |
Fussnoten: | Gesehen am 13.01.2020 |
Titel Quelle: | Enthalten in: Global environmental change |
Ort Quelle: | Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 1990 |
Jahr Quelle: | 2019 |
Band/Heft Quelle: | 57(2019), Seite 101918 |
ISSN Quelle: | 1872-9495 |
Abstract: | Invoking health benefits to promote climate-friendly household behavior has three unique advantages: (i) health co-benefits accrue directly to the acting individual, they are "private goods" rather than public ones; (ii) the evidence base for, and magnitude of health co-benefits is well-established; and (iii) the idea of a healthy life-style is well-engrained in public discourse, much more so than that of a climate-friendly life-style. In previous research, assessing the influence of information on health effects on people’s motivation to adopt mitigation actions, health co-benefits for the individual were typically confounded with collective health co-benefits, for example from pollution reduction. The present research aims to overcome this limitation by providing information on individual health co-benefits that are unconditional on the actions of others (direct health co-benefits). We report effects of this kind of health information on stated willingness to adopt mitigation actions as well as on simulation-based carbon emission reductions in a pre-registered experimental setting among 308 households in 4 mid-size case-study cities in 4 European high-income countries: France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. For each mitigation action from the sectors food, housing, and mobility, half of the sample received the amount of CO2equivalents (CO2-eq) saved and the financial costs or savings the respective action generated. The other half additionally received information on direct health co-benefits, where applicable. For households receiving information on direct health co-benefits, we find a higher mean willingness to adopt food and housing actions, and a greater proportion very willing to adopt one or more mitigation actions (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.1, 3.12); and a greater simulated reduction in overall carbon footprint: difference in percent reduction -2.70%, (95% CI -5.34, -0.04) overall and -4.45%, (95% CI -8.26, -0.64) for food. Our study is the first to show that providing information on strictly unconditional, individual health co-benefits can motivate households in high-income countries to adopt mitigation actions. |
DOI: | doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.002 |
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Volltext ; Verlag: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.002 |
| Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937801830551X |
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.002 |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Sprache: | eng |
Sach-SW: | Behavior |
| Climate change |
| Health |
| Health co-benefits |
| Household preferences |
| Mitigation |
K10plus-PPN: | 1687198470 |
Verknüpfungen: | → Zeitschrift |
Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation / Amelung, Dorothee [VerfasserIn]; July 2019 (Online-Ressource)