Balancing climate change mitigation and national adaptation: Experimental evidence on the influence of risk perceptions and information construal levels
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Keywords
Climate change mitigation; climate change adaptation; national adaptation strategies; psychological distance; construal level theory; risk perception; climate communication; information experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2024-08-19 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2024-08-19 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2024-08-19 (Experimental Economics)
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