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© Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2021946165 This book is available electronically in the Sociology, Social Policy and Education subject collection http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800370456 ISBN 978 1 80037 044 9 (cased) ISBN 978 1 80037 045 6 (eBook) Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 Contents List of contributors vii Preface xi Introduction to the Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology 1 Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader PART I CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 1 The development of global CO emissions 5 2 Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader 2 Prices, income and energy demand 22 Brantley Liddle and Hillard Huntington 3 Consistent inequality across Germany? Exploring spatial heterogeneity in the unequal distribution of air pollution 41 Tobias Rüttenauer and Henning Best PART II MEASUREMENT, DESCRIPTION AND PRECEDENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN 4 Testing the measurement of environmental concern: how do single items perform in comparison to multi-item scales? 63 Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader 5 The evolution of environmental concern in Europe 79 John Kenny 6 Where do pro-environmental tendencies fit within a taxonomy of personality traits? 97 Taciano L. Milfont 7 Climate change knowledge, meta-knowledge and beliefs 116 Helen Fischer and Karlijn van den Broek PART III THE DETERMINANTS OF PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR 8 Environmental behavior: measurement approaches and determining factors 134 Peter Preisendörfer and Andreas Diekmann 9 Non-monetary incentives and energy conservation 151 Ulf Liebe v Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 vi Research handbook on environmental sociology 10 The collective risk social dilemma 168 Manfred Milinski 11 Heating system choice among Swiss households: determinants and effects of policy counterfactuals 187 Patrick Bigler and Doina Radulescu 12 Is socially responsible investing (SRI) in stocks a competitive capital investment? A review of the literature and a comparative analysis based on the performance of sustainable stocks 216 Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg and Jonas F.A. Gottschalk PART IV ACCEPTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES 13 Public support for climate policy 237 Stefan Drews 14 Climate change denial in Europe 250 Christiane Lübke 15 What determines the attitude–behavior link when voting on renewable energy policies? The roles of problem perception and policy design 268 Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Philippe Thalmann 16 Support for city road tolls: a question of self-interest? 291 Fabian Thiel 17 Beyond political divides: analyzing public opinion on carbon taxation in Switzerland 313 Laurent Ott, Mehdi Farsi and Sylvain Weber Index 340 Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 Contributors Henning Best is Professor for Sociology and Social Stratification at TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interests include environmental sociology, social inequality, and causal inference. More information can be found under www. sowi .uni -kl .de/ en/ sociology. Patrick Bigler is a PhD Student in Economics at the KPM, University of Bern, Switzerland and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research. His research interests are in Applied Economics with focus on Energy, Environmental and Public Economics. Further information can be found at http://w ww .kpm .unibe .ch. Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg is a behavioral economist and (interim) Professor at Bard College Berlin, Germany. She is also an external fellow at the University of Goettingen. Her research interests are focused on ecological economics, pro-environmental behavior, identity economics, industrial dynamics/innovation, self-employment/entrepreneurship, and especially subjective well-being research. For more information see her website https://b lankenberg1 .webnode .com/. Andreas Diekmann is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland and a Senior Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany (2018 –). His areas of research are social cooperation and experimental game theory, environmental and population sociology, and methods of empirical social research. Current research activities focus on the reduction of energy consumption, an analysis of the environmental burden of metropolitan areas with geo-referenced panel data and experimental research on social dilemmas and the emergence of social norms. Website: http://s ozweb .sozphil .uni -leipzig. de/ de/ personen/ prof -dr -andreas -diekmann. html? duid = 52. Stefan Drews is a Postdoc at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He is interested in climate policy, ecological economics, and environmental psychology. More information can be found under https:// ictaweb. uab .cat. Mehdi Farsi holds the chair of Microeconomics of the Public Sector at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His current research focuses on the determinants of energy demand and behavioral responses to policy instruments, market innovations and new technologies. More information can be found at https://w ww .unine .ch/ irene/ en/ home/e quipe/m ehdi _farsi .html. Helen Fischer holds a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for stays at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include environ- mental cognition, and the relationship of metacognition and politicized climate science. Axel Franzen is Professor for Methods and Statistics at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research interests include methods of quantitative social vii Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 viii Research handbook on environmental sociology research, experimental game theory, and environmental sociology. More information can be found under www .soz .unibe .ch. Jonas F.A. Gottschalk is an analyst for equity and debt capital markets at Berenberg (one of one of Europe’s leading privately owned banks). Previously he was a data analyst for invest- ment funds and derivates. His work is focused on analysis and support with regard to IPOs and capital increases of national and international clients, as well as the processing of share buy-back programs and scrip dividends and employee stock option programs. Hillard Huntington is Executive Director of Stanford University’s Energy Modeling Forum, USA, where he conducts studies to improve the usefulness of energy market and systems models for understanding critical energy and environmental policy options. More information can be found under https://e mf .stanford .edu/ people/h illard- huntington. John Kenny is Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests include environmental public opinion and political sociology. More information can be found under www. tyndall. ac .uk. Brantley Liddle was most recently a Senior Research Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interests include the macro-economy and energy consumption/carbon emissions, transport and energy, and population and energy/ carbon emissions. For more information, working papers, and pre-prints see: http://s srn .com/ author = 375472 or https://w ww .researchgate .net/ profile/B rant _Liddle. Ulf Liebe is Professor of Sociology and Quantitative Methods at the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include environmental behavior, sustainability, discrimination, and multifactorial survey experiments. More information can be found under www .warwick .ac .uk/ fac/s oc/ sociology. Christiane Lübke is Postdoc at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests include environmental awareness and risk perception, pro-environmental behavior and sustainable lifestyles, social inequality, technological change, and job insecurity. More information can be found under www .uni -due .de/ soziologie/l uebke .php. Sebastian Mader is Postdoc at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research interests include environmental sociology, public health, statistical methods, and experimental sociology. More information can be found under www. soz .unibe .ch. Taciano L. Milfont is Reader in Environmental Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, where he specializes in a cross-cultural understanding of environmental prob- lems. He has served as Associate Editor of both Environment and Behavior and the Journal of Environmental Psychology, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. More information can be found under www. milfont. com. Manfred Milinski is Professor at the University of Kiel, Germany, and Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany. His research interests include host–parasite co-evolution, the role of immune genetics in mate choice, and experi- Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 Contributors ix mental economy, especially in relation to climate change and cooperation in social dilemmas. More information can be found under http://w ww .evolbio .mpg .de. Laurent Ott is PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Institute of Economic Research at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His research interests include environmental economics, political economy, policy evaluation and quantitative research methods. More information can be found at https://w ww .unine .ch/ irene/e n/ home/e quipe/l aurent- ott .html. Peter Preisendörfer was Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Mainz, Germany, retiring in 2019. His research interests include organization studies, entrepreneurship, environmental sociology, and quantitative methods of social research. More information can be found under https://o rganisation vonarbeitu ndbetrieb. soziologie. uni -mainz .de/ professor -dr -peter- preisendoerfer. Doina Radulescu is Professor for ‘State and Market’ at the Center of Competence for Public Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is an applied empirical economist with interests in energy economics and public economics. More information can be found at https://s ites .google .com/v iew/ doinaradulescu/h ome. Tobias Rüttenauer is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on environmental sociology, spatial demog- raphy, and the application of statistical methods for spatial and panel data. More information can be found under https://r uettenauer. github .io. Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests include comparative public policy (especially welfare state and energy), direct democracy as well as political behavior and attitudes. More information can be found at https://w ww .ipw .unibe .ch/ ueber _uns/ personen/ prof _dr _stadelmann_ steffen _isabelle/i ndex _ger .html. Philippe Thalmann is Associate Professor with tenure for urban and environmental econom- ics at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests include climate policy, macro-economic modelling and micro-economic decision making. More infor- mation can be found under leure.epfl.ch. Fabian Thiel is Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology at the LMU Munich, Germany. His research interests include methods of quantitative social research, social ine- quality (esp. discrimination), and environmental sociology. More information can be found under www .soziologie. uni -muenchen. de. Karlijn van den Broek is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, as well as Heidelberg University, Germany. She is an environmental psychologist, and her research focuses on people’s under- standing of environmental problems (mental models) and how this understanding influences decision-making and conservation behaviors. More information can be found on: https://w ww .uu .nl/ staff/ KLvandenBroek. Sylvain Weber is a Post-doctoral Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Economic Research at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He has a strong expertise in applied microeconomics and quantitative methods, and his research interests include energy and Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 x Research handbook on environmental sociology labor economics. More information can be found under https://w ww .unine .ch/ irene/e n/ home/ equipe/s ylvain _weber .html. Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 Preface When the publisher asked us to edit a handbook, we were first reluctant. After all, we, like our colleagues, are busily involved with publishing new analyses and insights in journal articles. They have increasingly become the main product of academic research, and handbooks receive much less attention in comparison to journal articles. However, and hopefully luckily, we had second thoughts. Journal articles have to be short and often focus on very specific details within a field. In contrast, contributions to handbooks offer the opportunity for a more general and review-oriented approach. We believe that this makes handbooks still a valuable supple- ment to the busy journal publishing. Particularly, handbooks are still often used in teaching and university classes, and we certainly hope that this one finds its place. We would like to thank all authors for sparing some time out of their busy schedules and for contributing to this book. It was written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. For many of our colleagues, particularly for those with younger children, this did not facilitate working. We certainly hope that they are happy with the results and have no regrets. We also owe thanks to Tobias Rüttenauer who, together with Sebastian Mader, organized a meeting on environmental social sciences in August 2020 at the University of Bern. As it turned out, this gathering was the best offline academic meeting (and the only one) we attended that year. It provided the opportunity to persuade attendants to contribute a chapter and to encourage those who were already com- mitted. We would also like to thank our student assistants Sophie Meier and Zagorka Nakova who supported the meeting and helped us to consolidate the manuscript. Finally, our thanks go to Hans-Peter Blossfeld for recommending us to the publisher and to Daniel Mather of Edward Elgar Publishing for persistently asking how the book is coming along. xi Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456 Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader - 9781800370456

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