Resource Type: Research & Articles

The authors of this paper seek to clarify how African-Americans and Hispanics differ from Anglos when it comes to pro-environmental orientations, measured via a battery of questions about environmental and climate concern. Using a 2016 online survey, weighted to reflect the 2010 US Census for gender and race, the authors found that Hispanics reported higher environmental/climate beliefs than Anglos, with African-Americans in between. However, there were no significant differences among the three groups when it came to knowledge of pro-environmental behaviors, risk perceptions from climate change, or pro-environmental behavioral intentions.

Ever wonder how environmental advocacy in the Trump era matches up to the Obama era? Earlier this year, Lab member Luis E. Hestres (h/t) and colleague Matthew C. Nisbet assessed the strategies environmental and climate advocates have employed in Year 1 in response to the challenge of an Administration much more hostile toward our issues. This week, we look at the major themes from Hestres & Nisbet’s review of Obama-era and 2017 advocacy, and what our community has learned to effectively ramp up engagement in 2018.

Last week, the NY Times ran a piece profiling six Americans who had recently shifted their opinions on climate change. It got forwarded around a bit (at least within the Lab team’s admittedly climate nerdy universe), so this week we look at how those six profiles do—or don’t—mesh with other research about changing minds on climate change.