Browsing Department of Government by Author "Shaw, Daigee"

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Climate change risk perceptions and the problem of scale: Evidence from cross-national survey experiments

Tvinnereim, Endre; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Liu, Xiaozi; Shaw, Daigee; Borick, Christopher; Lachapelle, Erick (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

We examine the concept of spatial optimism, defined as the tendency for individuals to perceive climate change as less threatening to themselves than to people in geographically more distant locations. Existing studies ...