Investigation of conceptual networks related to climate change among inhabitants: A case study in Eastern Hungarian settlements with word association method

Ballew, M. T., Pearson, A. R., Goldberg, M. H., Rosenthal, S. A. and A. Leiserowitz 2020 ‘Does socioeconomic status moderate the political divide on climate change? The roles of education, income, and individualism’, Global Environmental Change No. 60: 102024.10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102024 Search in Google Scholar

Bednarek-Szczepańska, M. 2019 ‘The Role of Local Communities in the Process of Siting of the Unwanted Facilities within the Rural Areas in Poland’ Eastern European Countryside 25(1): 63–94, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/eec.2019.003 Search in Google Scholar

Bord, R. J., O’connor, R. E. and A. Fisher 2000 ‘In what sense does the public need to understand global climate change?’ Public Understanding of Science 9(3): 205–218, DOI:10.1088/0963-6625/9/3/301.10.1088/0963-6625/9/3/301 Search in Google Scholar

Bouman, T., Verschoor, M., Albers, C. J., Böhm, G., Fisher, S. D., Poortinga, W. ... and L. Steg 2020 ‘When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions’, Global Environmental Change No. 62: 102061, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102061.10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102061 Search in Google Scholar

Climate ADAPT. Available at: https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/eu-adaptation-policy/covenant-of-mayors (access: 12.12.2020). Search in Google Scholar

Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. Available at: https://www.covenantofmayors.eu/en/ (access: 12.12.2020). Search in Google Scholar

Doelle, M. 2016 ‘The Paris Agreement: historic breakthrough or high stakes experiment?’ Climate Law 6(1–2): 1–20, DOI:10.1163/18786561-00601001.10.1163/18786561-00601001 Search in Google Scholar

Eurobarometer 490 Report 2019 Special Survey “Climate Change”. Search in Google Scholar

Formádi, K., Mayer, P. and E. Pénzes 2017 ‘Geography of Tourism in Hungary’ in (eds) K. Widawski, J. Wyrzykowski, The Geography of Tourism of Central and Eastern European Countries, Springer, Cham, pp. 189–232, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_6.10.1007/978-3-319-42205-3_6 Search in Google Scholar

Goldberg, M., van der Linden, S., Ballew, M. T., Rosenthal, S. A. and A. Leiserowitz 2019 Convenient but biased? The reliability of convenience samples in research about attitudes toward climate change. Available at: https://osf.io/2h7as (access: 07.07.2020).10.31219/osf.io/2h7as Search in Google Scholar

Goldberg, M. H., Gustafson, A., Ballew, M. T., Rosenthal, S. A., Cutler, M. J. and A. Leiserowitz 2020 Predictors of global warming risk perceptions among Latino and non-Latino White Americans. Climatic Change, pp. 1–20.10.1007/s10584-020-02728-z Search in Google Scholar

Greenhill, M., Leviston, Z., Leonard, R. And I. Walker 2014 ‘Assessing climate change beliefs: Response effects of question wording and response alternatives’, Public Understanding of Science 23(8): 947–965, DOI: 10.1177/096366251348011710.1177/0963662513480117 Search in Google Scholar

Holman, I. P., Brown, C., Carter, T. R., Harrison, P. A. and M. Rounsevell 2019 ‘Improving the representation of adaptation in climate change impact models’, Regional Environmental Change 19(3): 711–721, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1328-4.10.1007/s10113-018-1328-4 Search in Google Scholar

Hoogendoorn, G., Sütterlin, B. and M. Siegrist 2020 ‘The climate change beliefs fallacy: the influence of climate change beliefs on the perceived consequences of climate change’, Journal of Risk Research 23(12): 1–13, DOI:10.1080/13669877.2020.1749114.10.1080/13669877.2020.1749114 Search in Google Scholar

Hovardas, T. and K. J. Korfiatis 2006 ‘Word associations as a tool for assessing conceptual change in science education’, Learning and Instruction 16(5): 416–432, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2006.09.003.10.1016/j.learninstruc.2006.09.003 Search in Google Scholar

Howe, P. D., Mildenberger, M., Marlon, J. R. and A. Leiserowitz 2015 ‘Geographic variation in opinions on climate change at state and local scales in the USA’, Nature Climate Change 5(6): 596–603, DOI:10.1038/nclimate2583.10.1038/nclimate2583 Search in Google Scholar

Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) 2011. Available at: http://www.ksh.hu/nepszamlalas/tables_regional_09?lang=en (access 24.05.2020). Search in Google Scholar

IPCC 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, p. 151. Search in Google Scholar

Jagers S. C., Nilsson F. and T. Sterner 2020 ‘EU Climate Policy in a Changing World Order’, in (eds) A. B. Engelbrekt, N. Bremberg, A. Michalski, L. Oxelheim, The European Union in a Changing World Order, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 145–165.10.1007/978-3-030-18001-0_6 Search in Google Scholar

Johansson, D. J., Lucas, P. L., Weitzel, M., Ahlgren, E. O., Bazaz, A. B., Chen, W. ... and Y. M. Wei 2015 ‘Multi-model comparison of the economic and energy implications for China and India in an international climate regime’, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 20(8): 1335–1359, DOI:10.1007/s11027-014-9549-4.10.1007/s11027-014-9549-4 Search in Google Scholar

Jonas, M. and P. Żebrowski 2019 ‘The crux with reducing emissions in the long-term: the underestimated “now” versus the overestimated “then”’, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 24(6): 1169–1190, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-018-9825-9.10.1007/s11027-018-9825-9 Search in Google Scholar

Knific, K. and Š. Bojnec 2015 ‘Agricultural holdings in hilly-mountain areas in Slovenia before and after the accession to the European Union’, Eastern European Countryside, 21(1): 19–34, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2015-0002.10.1515/eec-2015-0002 Search in Google Scholar

Kovács, I. 2014 A periférikus területek turizmusa Magyarországon-a tematikus utak mint lehetőségek [Tourism in peripheral regions in Hungary – the possibilities of thematic routes], Taylor 6(3–4): 248–257. Search in Google Scholar

Leiserowitz, A. 2003 Global warming in the American mind: The roles of affect, imagery, and worldviews in risk perception, policy preferences and behaviour (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oregon).10.2139/ssrn.1560140 Search in Google Scholar

Leiserowitz, A. 2006 ‘Climate change risk perception and policy preferences: The role of affect, imagery, and values’, Climatic Change 77(1–2): 45–72.10.1007/s10584-006-9059-9 Search in Google Scholar

Leiserowitz, A. 2012 ‘Weather, climate, and (especially) society, Weather, Climate, and Society 4(2): 87–89, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00025.110.1175/WCAS-D-12-00025.1 Search in Google Scholar

Lorenzoni, I., Leiserowitz, A., de Franca Doria, M., Poortinga, W. and N. F. Pidgeon 2006 ‘Cross-national comparisons of image associations with “global warming” and “climate change” among laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain’, Journal of Risk Research 9(03): 265–281, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13669870600613658.10.1080/13669870600613658 Search in Google Scholar

Maibach, E., Myers, T. and A. Leiserowitz 2014 ‘Climate scientists need to set the record straight: There is a scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is happening’, Earth’s Future 2(5): 295–298, DOI:10.1002/2013EF00022610.1002/2013EF000226 Search in Google Scholar

Oberthür, S. and C. Roche Kelly 2008 ‘EU leadership in international climate policy: achievements and challenges’, The International Spectator 43(3): 35–50, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03932720802280594.10.1080/03932720802280594 Search in Google Scholar

Oberthür, S. and L. Groen 2017 ‘The European Union and the Paris Agreement: leader, mediator, or bystander?’, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 8(1): e445, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.445.10.1002/wcc.445 Search in Google Scholar

O’Connor, R. E., Bard, R. J. and A. Fisher 1999 ‘Risk perceptions, general environmental beliefs, and willingness to address climate change’, Risk Analysis 19(3): 461–471, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1999.tb00421.x.10.1111/j.1539-6924.1999.tb00421.x Search in Google Scholar

Pap, N. and J. Tóth 2005 Terület-és településfejlesztés I. A terület-és településfejlesztés alapjai [Regional and urban development I. Basics of regional and urban development], Alexandra Press, Pécs, pp. 223. Search in Google Scholar

Pénzes, J., Pásztor, I. Z. and P. Tátrai 2015 ‘Demographic Processes in Developmentally Peripheral Areas of Hungary’, Stanovnistvo 53(2): 87–111, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/STNV1502087P.10.2298/STNV1502087P Search in Google Scholar

Pénzes, J., Kiss, J. P., Deák, A. and N. Apáti 2018 ‘Térségi sokszínűség és stabilitás: az iskolázottság települési szintű egyenlőtlenségeinek változása Magyarországon 1990–2011 között’[Regional Diversity and Stability: Changes in the Inequalities of Education at Settlement Level in Hungary between 1990 and 2011], Területi Statisztika 58(6): 567.10.15196/TS580602 Search in Google Scholar

Poortinga, W., Whitmarsh, L., Steg, L., Böhm, G. And S. Fisher 2019 ‘Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants: A cross-European analysis’, Global Environmental Change No. 55: 25–35, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.01.007.10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.01.007 Search in Google Scholar

Radu, R. N. 2012 ‘The Business Media for the Rural World–an Analysis on the Romanian Audiovisual’, Eastern European Countryside 18(1): 111–124, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10130-012-0006-7.10.2478/v10130-012-0006-7 Search in Google Scholar

Rowe, G. and G. Wright 2001 ‘Differences in expert and lay judgments of risk: myth or reality?’, Risk Analysis 21(2): 341–356, DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.212116.10.1111/0272-4332.212116 Search in Google Scholar

Schuldt, J. P., Konrath, S. H. and N. Schwarz 2011 ‘“Global warming” or “climate change”? Whether the planet is warming depends on question wording’, Public Opinion Quarterly 75(1): 115–124, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfq073.10.1093/poq/nfq073 Search in Google Scholar

Schuldt, J. P., Roh, S. and N. Schwarz 2015 ‘Questionnaire design effects in climate change surveys: Implications for the partisan divide’, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 658(1): 67–85, DOi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716214555066.10.1177/0002716214555066 Search in Google Scholar

Slovic, P. 1999 ‘Trust, emotion, sex, politics, and science: Surveying the risk-assessment battlefield’, Risk Analysis 19(4): 689–701, DOI: 10.1023/a:1007041821623.10.1023/A:1007041821623 Search in Google Scholar

Smith, N. and A. Leiserowitz 2012 ‘The rise of global warming skepticism: Exploring affective image associations in the United States over time’ Risk Analysis: An International Journal 32(6): 1021–1032, DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01801.x.10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01801.x Search in Google Scholar

Soutter, A. R. B. and R. Mõttus 2020 ‘“Global warming” versus “climate change”: A replication on the association between political self-identification, question wording, and environmental beliefs’, Journal of Environmental Psychology Vol. 69 p.101413, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101413.10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101413 Search in Google Scholar

Stoczkiewicz, M. 2018 ‘The Climate Policy of the European Union from the Framework Convention to the Paris Agreement’, Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law 15(1): 42–68.10.1163/18760104-01501004 Search in Google Scholar

Süli-Zakar, I. and G. Kozma 2003 A terület-és településfejlesztés alapjai [Basics of regional and urban development] Dialóg Campus, Budapest-Pécs. Search in Google Scholar

Sundblad, E. L., Biel, A. and T. Gärling 2007 ‘Cognitive and affective risk judgements related to climate change’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 27(2): 97–106, DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.01.003.10.1016/j.jenvp.2007.01.003 Search in Google Scholar

Szabó, G., Fazekas, I., Radics, Z., Csorba, P., Patkós, C., Kovács, E. ... and L. Szabó 2020 ‘Assessing the Public Knowledge Structure Towards Renewable Energy Sources in Hungary’, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research (IJRER) 10(3): 1476–1487. Search in Google Scholar

Tranter, B. and K. Booth 2015 ‘Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study’, Global Environmental Change No. 33: 154–164, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.05.003.10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.05.003 Search in Google Scholar

van der Linden, S. L., Leiserowitz, A. A., Feinberg, G. D. and E. W. Maibach 2014 ‘How to communicate the scientific consensus on climate change: plain facts, pie charts or metaphors?’, Climatic Change 126(1–2): 255–262, DOI:10.1007/s10584-014-1190-4.10.1007/s10584-014-1190-4 Search in Google Scholar

van der Linden, S. 2018 ‘Warm glow is associated with low-but not high-cost sustainable behaviour’, Nature Sustainability 1(1): 28–30, DOI:10.1038/s41893-017-0001-0.10.1038/s41893-017-0001-0 Search in Google Scholar

Vasvári, M. and K. E. Martonné 2015, Difficulties of the tourism development in the Middle Tisza (Tisa) Region, Hungary’, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geographia 60(1): 145–156. Search in Google Scholar

Villar, A. and J. A. Krosnick 2011 ‘Global warming vs. climate change, taxes vs. prices: Does word choice matter?’, Climatic Change 105(1–2): 1–12, DOI:10.1007/s10584-010-9882-x.10.1007/s10584-010-9882-x Search in Google Scholar

Wagner, W., Valencia, J. and F. Elejabarrieta 1996 ‘Relevance, discourse and the ‘hot’stable core social representations–A structural analysis of word associations’, British Journal of Social Psychology 35(3): 331–351, DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8309.1996. tb01101.x. Search in Google Scholar

Whitmarsh, L. 2009a ‘Behavioural responses to climate change: Asymmetry of intentions and impacts’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 29(1): 13–23, DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.05.003.10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.05.003 Search in Google Scholar

Whitmarsh, L. 2009b ‘What’s in a name? Commonalities and differences in public understanding of “climate change” and “global warming”’, Public Understanding of Science 18(4): 401–420, DOI:10.1177/0963662506073088.10.1177/0963662506073088 Search in Google Scholar

Whitmarsh, L. 2011 ‘Scepticism and uncertainty about climate change: Dimensions, determinants and change over time’, Global Environmental Change 21(2): 690–700.10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.016 Search in Google Scholar

Yarkova, Y. and E. Mutafov 2017 ‘Rural Areas in Bulgaria–Investigation on some Factors for Development’, Eastern European Countryside 23(1): 51–70, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2017-0003.10.1515/eec-2017-0003 Search in Google Scholar

Yu, H., Wang, B., Zhang, Y. J., Wang, S. and Y. M. Wei 2013 ‘Public perception of climate change in China: results from the questionnaire survey’, Natural Hazards 69(1): 459–472, DOI:10.1007/s11069-013-0711-1.10.1007/s11069-013-0711-1 Search in Google Scholar

Ziegler, A. 2017 ‘Political orientation, environmental values, and climate change beliefs and attitudes: An empirical cross country analysis’, Energy Economics No. 63: 144–153, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2017.01.02210.1016/j.eneco.2017.01.022 Search in Google Scholar