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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.008
	Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation
	Engels A.; Hüther O.; Schäfer M.; Held H.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:5
英文摘要	Many studies have shown a general decline of public concern about climate change or vice versa a rise in public climate-change skepticism, in particular in the U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon countries. There is a vivid debate on whether this is a global phenomenon, on which factors explain the decline, and on the broader societal implications of these trends in the context of the transformation toward a low-carbon society. We add to this literature by presenting the results of a recent general population survey in Germany in which we looked for systematic linkages between public climate-change skepticism on one hand, and energy preferences and political participation on the other. Germany is an interesting testbed as it is currently involved in a large-scale restructuring of its system of energy supply toward renewable energy sources (the "Energiewende"). Our results indicate that climate-change skepticism has not diffused widely in Germany, but that it correlates with less support of renewable energy sources. However, skepticism correlates negatively with political participation, and there is no strong political outlet for public climate-change skepticism in Germany. Alternative potential barriers for the successful implementation of the "Energiewende" are also discussed. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Energy preferences; General population survey; Germany; Low-carbon society; Political participation; Skepticism
学科领域	carbon emission; climate change; energy; political participation; Germany
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon emission; climate change; energy; political participation; Germany
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117904
作者单位	Universität Hamburg, KlimaCampus, Germany; Universität Kassel, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Engels A.,Hüther O.,Schäfer M.,et al. Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation[J],2013,23(5).
APA	Engels A.,Hüther O.,Schäfer M.,&Held H..(2013).Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation.Global Environmental Change,23(5).
MLA	Engels A.,et al."Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation".Global Environmental Change 23.5(2013).