气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change

CCPortal

DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02923-y
	Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change
	Schneider-Mayerson M.; Leong K.L.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
英文摘要	Media reports and public polls suggest that young people in many countries are increasingly factoring climate change into their reproductive choices, but empirical evidence about this phenomenon is lacking. This article reviews the scholarship on this subject and discusses the results of the first empirical study focused on it, a quantitative and qualitative survey of 607 US-Americans between the ages of 27 and 45. While 59.8% of respondents reported being “very” or “extremely concerned” about the carbon footprint of procreation, 96.5% of respondents were “very” or “extremely concerned” about the well-being of their existing, expected, or hypothetical children in a climate-changed world. This was largely due to an overwhelmingly negative expectation of the future with climate change. Younger respondents were more concerned about the climate impacts their children would experience than older respondents, and there was no statistically significant difference between the eco-reproductive concerns of male and female respondents. These and other results are situated within scholarship about growing climate concern in the USA, the concept of the carbon footprint, the carbon footprint of procreation, individual actions in response to climate change, temporal perceptions of climate change, and expectations about the future in the USA. Potential implications for future research in environmental psychology, environmental sociology, the sociology of reproduction, demography, and climate mitigation are discussed. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Carbon footprint; Climate change; Climate concern; Fertility; Mitigation; Reproduction
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Carbon footprint; Cell proliferation; Demography; Emission control; Sociology; Surveys; Climate impacts; Climate mitigations; Empirical studies; Environmental psychology; Implications for futures; Qualitative surveys; Statistically significant difference; Temporal perception; Climate change
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147257
作者单位	Yale-NUS College, College Ave West, Singapore
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schneider-Mayerson M.,Leong K.L.. Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change[J],2020.
APA	Schneider-Mayerson M.,&Leong K.L..(2020).Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change.Climatic Change.
MLA	Schneider-Mayerson M.,et al."Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change".Climatic Change (2020).