Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance
Researching southwest WA farming communities attitudes to climate change (n=411) identified three typologies of ‘Acceptors’, ‘Uncertains’ and ‘Sceptics’ underpinned by extent of experience. ‘Acceptors’ valued science’s knowledge and believed climate change was a human induced threat. ‘Uncertains’ we...
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2012
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| description | Researching southwest WA farming communities attitudes to climate change (n=411) identified three typologies of ‘Acceptors’, ‘Uncertains’ and ‘Sceptics’ underpinned by extent of experience. ‘Acceptors’ valued science’s knowledge and believed climate change was a human induced threat. ‘Uncertains’ were unsure of science’s knowledge and if climate change was human induced and a threat. ‘Sceptics’ with more experience than the other two clusters did not value science’s knowledge; believed climate change was natural and not a threat. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-25352017-02-20T06:37:57Z Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance Evans, Christopher A. Researching southwest WA farming communities attitudes to climate change (n=411) identified three typologies of ‘Acceptors’, ‘Uncertains’ and ‘Sceptics’ underpinned by extent of experience. ‘Acceptors’ valued science’s knowledge and believed climate change was a human induced threat. ‘Uncertains’ were unsure of science’s knowledge and if climate change was human induced and a threat. ‘Sceptics’ with more experience than the other two clusters did not value science’s knowledge; believed climate change was natural and not a threat. 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2535 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Evans, Christopher A. Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| title | Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| title_full | Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| title_fullStr | Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| title_short | Rural Western Australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| title_sort | rural western australians attitudes to climate change, climate change science and governance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2535 |