Collaborative Research: Gender, Politics, and Environmental Concern

合作研究：性别、政治和环境问题

• 批准号: 2420364
• 负责人: Amanda Clayton
• 金额: $ 22.54万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2420364&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Gender; Politics; Environmental

This project investigates gender differences in how individuals form attitudes about climate policy across countries. The research helps us understand how societies manage environmental risks. Climatic shifts have been shown to increase both interpersonal and inter-group conflict in every world region, meaning that mitigating climate change is a matter of national security. Understanding how to gain support among those most skeptical in high carbon-emitting economies is key to forming effective policy. This project identifies the material and psychological sources of public support for and resistance to climate mitigation policies around the world. It will develop three new public datasets and associated qualitative materials, encouraging replication and extensions, and contributes to education and research infrastructure. In wealthy nations, women tend to express more concern about climate change than men. Yet the gender gap in climate attitudes does not exist in poorer countries. This project develops a new theory to explain how political elites shape citizens' perceptions of the costs and benefits of climate action in ways that vary across countries (by economic development) and by gender within countries. We test this theory by collecting and analyzing four data sets: (1) a 60-country dataset on major parties' climate policies; (2) a 60-country dataset on media references to the winners and losers of climate action; (3) qualitative case studies in seven countries to investigate the development of climate policy frames; and (4) a survey experiment in five countries to gauge how policies that lessen the perceived costs of climate action differently affect policy support among men and women. This project is co-funded by the Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) and the Security and Preparedness (SAP) programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目调查个人对各国气候政策态度的性别差异。这项研究帮助我们了解社会如何管理环境风险。事实证明，气候变化会增加世界各地区的人际和群体间冲突，这意味着缓解气候变化事关国家安全。了解如何获得高碳排放经济体中最持怀疑态度的人的支持是制定有效政策的关键。该项目确定了世界各地公众支持和抵制气候缓解政策的物质和心理来源。它将开发三个新的公共数据集和相关的定性材料，鼓励复制和扩展，并为教育和研究基础设施做出贡献。在富裕国家，女性往往比男性更关注气候变化。然而，在较贫穷的国家，气候态度方面的性别差距并不存在。该项目开发了一种新理论来解释政治精英如何以因国家（经济发展）和国家内部性别而异的方式塑造公民对气候行动成本和收益的看法。我们通过收集和分析四个数据集来检验这一理论：(1) 60 个国家的主要缔约方气候政策数据集； (2) 60 个国家的媒体提及气候行动赢家和输家的数据集； (3) 七个国家的定性案例研究，以调查气候政策框架的制定情况； (4) 在五个国家进行的一项调查实验，以衡量减少气候行动感知成本的政策如何不同地影响男性和女性的政策支持。该项目由负责任的机构和行为 (AIB) 以及安全和准备 (SAP) 计划共同资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。