Forest Owners' Response to Climate Change: University Education Trumps Value Profile.

ABSTRACT: Do forest owners' levels of education or value profiles explain their responses to climate change? The cultural cognition thesis (CCT) has cast serious doubt on the familiar and often criticized "knowledge deficit" model, which says that laypeople are less concerned about climate change because they lack scientific knowledge. Advocates of CCT maintain that citizens with the highest degrees of scientific literacy and numeracy are not the most concerned about climate change. Rather, this is the group in which cultural polarization is greatest, and thus individuals with more limited scientific literacy and numeracy are more concerned about climate change under certain circumstances than those with higher scientific literacy and numeracy. The CCT predicts that cultural and other values will tr

SUBMITTER: Blennow K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4880312 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature