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Boucher, Jean Leon.

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Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change: A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change: A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints./
作者:	Boucher, Jean Leon.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	311 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01A(E).
標題:	Sociology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10135745
ISBN:	9781339930251

Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change: A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints.
Boucher, Jean Leon.

Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change: A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 311 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Global climate change is arguably the defining issue of our present age, and carbon emissions are the major cause of this change. Prior research has shown that carbon emissions are strongly positively associated with household incomes---both in a given nation and between nations. Scholars explain that one of the root causes of this "income-carbon" relationship is lifestyle lock-in: the inability of individuals to change their consumption habits---due to institutionalized structures, contexts, and norms. This inability is also related to what researchers refer to as the attitude-behavior gap: where behaviors do not align with attitudes. Specifically, my research explores these phenomena by testing whether climate change beliefs moderate the income-carbon relationship.

ISBN: 9781339930251Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Culture, Carbon, and Climate Change: A Class Analysis of Climate Change Belief, Lifestyle Lock-in, and Personal Carbon Footprints.
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