Using decision pathway surveys to inform climate engineering policy choices

作者：Gregory Robin^*; Satterfield Terre; Hasell Ariel

来源：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113(3): 560-565.

DOI：10.1073/pnas.1508896113

• climate change
• geoengineering
• pathway surveys
• deliberation

Over the coming decades citizens living in North America and Europe will be asked about a variety of new technological and behavioral initiatives intended to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. A common approach to public input has been surveys whereby respondents' attitudes about climate change are explained by individuals' demographic background, values, and beliefs. In parallel, recent deliberative research seeks to more fully address the complex value tradeoffs linked to novel technologies and difficult ethical questions that characterize leading climate mitigation alternatives. New methods such as decision pathway surveys may offer important insights for policy makers by capturing much of the depth and reasoning of small-group deliberations while meeting standard survey goals including large-sample stake-holder engagement. Pathway surveys also can help participants to deepen their factual knowledge base and arrive at a more complete understanding of their own values as they apply to proposed policy alternatives. The pathway results indicate more fully the conditional and context-specific nature of support for several "upstream" climate interventions, including solar radiation management techniques and carbon dioxide removal technologies.

• 出版日期2016-1-19