Motivating Personal Climate Action through a Safety and Health Risk Management Framework

ABSTRACT: Background: There is overwhelming evidence the impacts of climate change present a probable threat to personal health and safety. However, traditional risk management approaches have not been applied to ameliorate the crises. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact on personal motivation for action of a communication intervention that framed climate change as a safety issue that can be mitigated through a safety and health risk management framework. Participants’ perception of climate change in terms of its anthropogenicity, context and importance, perception as a personal threat, belief in the efficacy of human action, motivating drivers for action, knowledge of climate change impacts, perceived personal barriers to climate action, and short- and long-term preferences for mitig

SUBMITTER: Mullins-Jaime C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9819491 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature