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Climate Change Risk Perception in Taiwan: Correlation with Individual and Societal Factors
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Abstract This study differentiates the risk perception and influencing factors of climate change along the dimensions of global severity and personal threat. Using the 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSGS) data (N = 2001) as a representative sample of adults from Taiwan, we investigated the influencing fac... view more
This study differentiates the risk perception and influencing factors of climate change along the dimensions of global severity and personal threat. Using the 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSGS) data (N = 2001) as a representative sample of adults from Taiwan, we investigated the influencing factors of the risk perceptions of climate change in these two dimensions (global severity and personal threat). Logistic regression models were used to examine the correlations of individual factors (gender, age, education, climate-related disaster experience and risk awareness, marital status, employment status, household income, and perceived social status) and societal factors (religion, organizational embeddedness, and political affiliations) with the above two dimensions. The results demonstrate that climate-related disaster experience has no significant impact on either the perception of global severity or the perception of personal impact. However, climate-related risk awareness (regarding typhoons, in particular) is positively associated with both dimensions of the perceived risks of climate change. With higher education, individuals are more concerned about global severity than personal threat. Regarding societal factors, the supporters of political parties have higher risk perceptions of climate change than people who have no party affiliation. Religious believers have higher risk perceptions of personal threat than non-religious people. This paper ends with a discussion about the effectiveness of efforts to enhance risk perception of climate change with regard to global severity and personal threat.... view less
Keywords
risk; risk assessment; climate change; social factors; demographic factors; natural disaster; Taiwan; regression analysis
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
risk perception; typhoon; individual factor; societal factor; 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSGS)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 1-12
Journal
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Climate Change and Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15010091
ISSN
1660-4601
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed