Climate adaptation and climate mitigation do not undermine each other: A cross-cultural test in four countries

0547433 - ÚVGZ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Urban, Jan - Vačkářová, Davina - Baďura, Tomáš
Climate adaptation and climate mitigation do not undermine each other: A cross-cultural test in four countries.
Journal of Environmental Psychology. Roč. 77, OCT (2021), s. 1-11. ISSN 0272-4944. E-ISSN 1522-9610
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : environmental behaviors * risk * spillover * attitude * support * belief * Climate adaptation * Climate mitigation * Compensatory effect * Moral licensing * Attitude * Global climate change * the Campbell Paradigm
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Impact factor: 7.649, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
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Adaptation and mitigation are both essential components of strategies that aim to decrease risks associated with climate change. A number of existing studies, however, suggest that the two might be negatively affecting each other climate adaptation might decrease mitigation efforts and vice versa. We have examined these effects in five experimental studies carried out in four countries (total N = 4,800) and have used Bayesian analysis to evaluate the strength of empirical support for such effects. We did not find any evidence that compensation between climate mitigation and adaptation takes place. On the contrary, we found some evidence, albeit rather weak, that prior focus on adaptation measures increases the subsequent tendency to engage in mitigation behavior, this effect is likely to be driven by an increase in worry about the impacts of climate change that results from a prior focus on climate adaptation. If anything, offering adaptation options may increase the tendency to mitigate climate change.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0323669