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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.05.002
	Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries
	Amelung D.; Fischer H.; Herrmann A.; Aall C.; Louis V.R.; Becher H.; Wilkinson P.; Sauerborn R.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
EISSN	1872-9495
卷号	57
英文摘要	Invoking health benefits to promote climate-friendly household behavior has three unique advantages: (i) health co-benefits accrue directly to the acting individual, they are “private goods” rather than public ones; (ii) the evidence base for, and magnitude of health co-benefits is well-established; and (iii) the idea of a healthy life-style is well-engrained in public discourse, much more so than that of a climate-friendly life-style. In previous research, assessing the influence of information on health effects on people's motivation to adopt mitigation actions, health co-benefits for the individual were typically confounded with collective health co-benefits, for example from pollution reduction. The present research aims to overcome this limitation by providing information on individual health co-benefits that are unconditional on the actions of others (direct health co-benefits). We report effects of this kind of health information on stated willingness to adopt mitigation actions as well as on simulation-based carbon emission reductions in a pre-registered experimental setting among 308 households in 4 mid-size case-study cities in 4 European high-income countries: France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. For each mitigation action from the sectors food, housing, and mobility, half of the sample received the amount of CO2equivalents (CO2-eq) saved and the financial costs or savings the respective action generated. The other half additionally received information on direct health co-benefits, where applicable. For households receiving information on direct health co-benefits, we find a higher mean willingness to adopt food and housing actions, and a greater proportion very willing to adopt one or more mitigation actions (OR 1.86, 95% CI 1.1, 3.12); and a greater simulated reduction in overall carbon footprint: difference in percent reduction -2.70%, (95% CI -5.34, -0.04) overall and -4.45%, (95% CI -8.26, -0.64) for food. Our study is the first to show that providing information on strictly unconditional, individual health co-benefits can motivate households in high-income countries to adopt mitigation actions. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Behavior; Climate change; Health; Health co-benefits; Household preferences; Mitigation
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography
scopus关键词	carbon emission; carbon footprint; climate change; lifestyle; mitigation; pollution control; preference behavior; public health; Europe
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/99734
作者单位	University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany; Institute of Public Health, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Western Norway Research Institute, Norway; University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Amelung D.,Fischer H.,Herrmann A.,et al. Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries[J],2019,57.
APA	Amelung D..,Fischer H..,Herrmann A..,Aall C..,Louis V.R..,...&Sauerborn R..(2019).Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries.Global Environmental change,57.
MLA	Amelung D.,et al."Human health as a motivator for climate change mitigation: results from four European high-income countries".Global Environmental change 57(2019).