Prosociality as response to slow- and fast-onset climate hazards

IF 4.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Global Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI:10.1017/sus.2022.9
Ivo Steimanis, B. Vollan
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Non-technical summary More and more people around the globe experience climate hazards. For vulnerable populations, these hazards not only cause significant physical damages, but can also affect the way people interact with each other. How such interactions are affected by climate hazards is particularly important for understanding the vulnerability of communities. Prosocial behavior is key for communities that heavily rely on informal social support to deal with these threats and for cooperative solutions to provide and maintain public goods. To investigate these effects, we talk to people living on the front lines of climate change and measure their prosociality using behavioral tasks. Our results show that both fast- and slow-onset hazards increase prosociality, underscoring the importance of well-functioning social relationships for dealing with hardship and uncertainty in a variety of contexts. Technical summary People's willingness to engage in prosocial behavior can affect how vulnerable and resilient populations are to climate hazards. We study how different types of climate hazards, fast-onsetting cyclones and slowly rising sea-levels, might affect peoples' prosociality using incentivized behavioral tasks. We sample people who are at the forefront of climate change and either experienced Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (study 1; n = 378) or are from sea-level rise hotspots (study 2; n = 1047) in Solomon Islands, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. We experimentally manipulate the salience of these hazards through recall or informational videos. Results from study 1 show that increases in prosociality are (i) independent of whether supportive behaviors or conflicts are recalled, (ii) are not only targeted to a narrow in-group, and (iii) do not come with increases in antisocial behaviors. In study 2, we also find that people behave more prosocial when they are informed about the impacts of rising sea-levels. Our survey evidence suggests that people who already perceive the threat of displacement due to rising sea-levels are also more prosocial. Overall, peoples' responses to both types of hazards are geared toward collective action, which could strengthen their adaptive capacity to deal with climate risks. Social media summary People severely affected by sea-level rise and rapidly emerging climate hazards are responding with increases in prosocial behaviors to fellow villagers.
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作为对缓慢和快速发生的气候危害的反应的积极性
非技术性总结全球越来越多的人经历气候危害。对于弱势群体来说,这些危害不仅会造成严重的身体伤害,还会影响人们之间的互动方式。这种相互作用如何受到气候危害的影响,对于了解社区的脆弱性尤为重要。亲社会行为是严重依赖非正式社会支持来应对这些威胁的社区以及提供和维护公共产品的合作解决方案的关键。为了调查这些影响,我们与生活在气候变化前线的人们交谈,并使用行为任务来衡量他们的亲社会性。我们的研究结果表明,快速和缓慢发生的危险都会增加亲社会性,强调了良好运作的社会关系对于应对各种环境中的困难和不确定性的重要性。技术摘要人们参与亲社会行为的意愿会影响人口对气候危害的脆弱性和适应力。我们通过激励行为任务研究了不同类型的气候危害,如快速爆发的气旋和缓慢上升的海平面,可能会如何影响人们的亲社会性。我们对处于气候变化前沿的人进行了抽样,他们要么在菲律宾经历了台风海燕(研究1;n=378),要么来自所罗门群岛、孟加拉国和越南的海平面上升热点地区(研究2;n=1047)。我们通过回忆或信息视频来实验性地操纵这些危险的显著性。研究1的结果表明,亲社会性的增加(i)与支持行为或冲突是否被回忆无关,(ii)不仅针对少数群体,(iii)不伴随反社会行为的增加。在研究2中,我们还发现,当人们被告知海平面上升的影响时,他们表现得更亲社会。我们的调查证据表明,那些已经意识到海平面上升带来的流离失所威胁的人也更亲社会。总的来说,人们对这两种危险的反应都是以集体行动为导向的,这可以加强他们应对气候风险的适应能力。社交媒体摘要受海平面上升和迅速出现的气候危害严重影响的人们对村民的亲社会行为有所增加。
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Global Sustainability
Global Sustainability Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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10.90
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3.60%
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19
审稿时长
17 weeks
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