Individual and local flooding experiences are differentially associated with subjective attribution and climate change concern

Charles A. Ogunbode (), Rouven Doran and Gisela Böhm
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Charles A. Ogunbode: University of Bergen
Rouven Doran: University of Bergen
Gisela Böhm: University of Bergen

Climatic Change, 2020, vol. 162, issue 4, No 31, 2243-2255

Abstract: Abstract While several studies show an association between flooding experience and climate change engagement, a few show no evidence of such a link. Here, we explore the potential that this inconsistency relates to the measurement of flooding experience in terms of individual versus local experience, and the subsumption of multiple distinct constructs within composite indicators of climate change engagement. Using national survey data from Norway, we show that individual and local flooding experiences differentially predict subjective attribution and climate change concern. People with individual flooding experience reported significantly greater climate change concern than those with local, or no, flooding experience. Subjective attribution of flooding to climate change did not differ significantly between people with individual versus local flooding experience, except among those with a right-wing political orientation where individual experience was associated with greater subjective attribution. Our findings highlight the need for careful operationalisation of flooding experience and climate change engagement in subsequent research.

Keywords: Flooding; Climate change; Experience; Attribution; Psychology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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