Cross-national dynamics of risk-related attitudes on social media
Is the corona pandemic crowding out government, business, and civil society attention to and plans for addressing the green transition - or, conversely, might the pandemic in fact be re-energizing collective attitudes to also address the risks of climate change?
While the covid-19 outbreak has put governments on high alert, pandemic risk management in- tersects in the public debate with other prevalent societal concerns, including climate change. This is true not least in the Scandinavian countries, where ambitious plans for green transition were already underway by the time the corona virus hit, even as governments also pursue dif different pandemic management strategies.Against this comparative backdrop, the question arises: is the corona pandemic crowding out government, business, and civil society attention to and plans for addressing the green transition - or, conversely, might the pandemic in fact be re- energizing collective attitudes to also address the risks of climate change?
Funded by:
The project has received a grant of DKK 282.619 from The Velux Foundations as one of 13 human and social data collection projects that will examine how the Covid-19 crisis affects our lives and society.
The project also includes researchers co-financed by the ERC funded project Distract: The Political Economy of Distraction in Digitised Denmark.
The project has been extended to end in August 2024.
Project: Cross-national dynamics of risk-related attitutes on social media
Period: February 2020 - August 2024
Contact
Professor Anders Blok
Email: abl@soc.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 35 77