Browsing NORCE vitenarkiv by Author "Tvinnereim, Endre"
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Attitudes to public spending on environmental risk reduction: the role of temporal and spatial distance
Kysela, Eva; Tvinnereim, Endre; Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate change is often perceived as a distant threat affecting people in distant places and the far future. Such perceptions could dampen public willingness to spend on climate change mitigation. We contribute to the ... -
Climate change risk perceptions and the problem of scale: Evidence from cross-national survey experiments
Tvinnereim, Endre; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Liu, Xiaozi; Shaw, Daigee; Borick, Christopher; Lachapelle, Erick (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We examine the concept of spatial optimism, defined as the tendency for individuals to perceive climate change as less threatening to themselves than to people in geographically more distant locations. Existing studies ... -
Explaining landscape preference heterogeneity using machine learning-based survey analysis
Liu, Xiaozi; Tvinnereim, Endre; Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik; Velle, Liv Guri; Saure, Heidi Iren; Lee, Hanna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We conducted a national survey on a high-quality internet panel to study landscape preferences in Norway, using photos as stimuli. We examined preference heterogeneity with respect to socio-demographic characteristics and ... -
Explaining public acceptance of congestion charging: The role of geographical variation in the Bergen case
Tvinnereim, Endre; Haarstad, Håvard; Rødeseike, Annika; Bugnion, Veronique (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Controversial policies introduced to improve public goods - such as the environment, mobility and public health - have shown patterns of initial opposition followed by broad acceptance once the public experiences positive ... -
Fossil Fuel Employment and Public Opinion about Climate Change
Tvinnereim, Endre (Working paper 03-2014, Working paper, 2014-03)Public opinion about climate change has been shown to vary according to gender, age, ideological views, and placement in social networks, while variation in climate policy has been explained referring to economic factors ... -
Generalization of Classic Question Order Effects Across Cultures
Stark, Tobias; Silber, Henning; Krosnick, Jon A.; Blom, Annelies G.; Aoyagi, Midori; Belchior, Ana; Bosnjak, Michael; Clement, Sanne Lund; John, Melvin; Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea; Lawson, Karen; Lynn, Peter; Martinsson, Johan; Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte; Tvinnereim, Endre; Yu, Ruoh-rong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness ... -
Klimaendringer på Svalbard: effekter på naturmangfold og konsekvenser for den fremtidige naturforvaltningen. Delprosjekt: De samfunnsmessige aspektene av klimaendringer på Svalbard
Tvinnereim, Endre; Angell, Elisabeth; Kolstad, Erik W.; Brekke, Ole Andreas; Mortensen, Stehn (Working paper; 3-2016, Working paper, 2016-04)Svalbard er en øygruppe i Nordishavet som er en del av kongeriket Norge, uten status som kommune eller fylke. Den største øyen er Spitsbergen (37 814 km2), hvor også det meste av menneskelig aktivitet er lokalisert. Det ... -
A polarized climate? Party sorting over climate change and the environment among candidates and voters in Europe
Tvinnereim, Endre (Working paper; 1-2015, Working paper, 2015-05)Political polarization over climate change has been blamed for lack of climate policy progress in several countries, most notably the US and Australia. However, no systematic comparative study exists of party sorting – the ... -
Scientific truth or debate: On the link between perceived scientific consensus and belief in anthropogenic climate change
Bertoldo, Raquel; Mays, Claire; Böhm, Gisela; Poortinga, Wouter; Poumadère, Marc; Arnold, Annika; Tvinnereim, Endre; Steentjes, Katharine; Pidgeon, Nick (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change exists and is caused by human activity. It has been argued that communicating the consensus can counter climate scepticism, given that perceived scientific consensus is ... -
Who cares about Norway's energy transition? A survey experiment about citizen associations and petroleum
Tvinnereim, Endre; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Fløttum, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Experts and academics think, write, and talk extensively about energy transition, but can the same be said about the public? A comprehensive move from fossil to renewable energy implies significant structural changes and ...