Unveiling the Price of Green

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# Unveiling the Price of Green
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## Perceptions of Socio-Ecological Inequality and the Demand for Distributive Justice in Climate Policies
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### Merlin Schaeffer and Sofie Andersen
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### 2025-08-01
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# Environmental justice theory (EJT)

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- **Original EJT:** Marginalized populations face disproportionate burden of environmental hazards (Schlosberg, 2007; Rüttenauer and Best, 2021)

- **EJT Extension:** *Costs* of the green transition, or limitations to *participate* in it.

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# Environmental justice theory (EJT)

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- **Original EJT:** Marginalized populations face disproportionate burden of environmental hazards (Schlosberg, 2007; Rüttenauer and Best, 2021)

- **EJT Extension:** *Costs* of the green transition, or limitations to *participate* in it.

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`\(\Rightarrow\)` **Support for climate policies is _curbed_ by justice concerns** (Liebe and Dobers, 2020; Diekmann, 2024)
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# A Survey Experiment

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# Inequality elicitation

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# Inequality elicitation

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# Inequality elicitation

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# Transition cost elicitation

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# Transition cost elicitation

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# Transition cost elicitation

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# Correction

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# Learning

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# Correction effects

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# Priming through the elicitation?

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# Conclusion

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`\(\Rightarrow\)` **Support for climate policies is _curbed_ by justice concerns** (Liebe and Dobers, 2020; Diekmann, 2024)
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- Most people underestimate income and emissions inequality.
- Ca. half also underestimate relative cost of transitioning to green technologies for lower income families.
- Factual correction increases justice concerns, but has no effect on policy support.

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Across two different kinds of scenarios (housing and mobility costs), we do *not* find evidence for this hypothesis.
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# References

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Diekmann, A. (2024). _Klimakrise_. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.

Liebe, U. and G. M. Dobers (2020). "Measurement of Fairness Perceptions in Energy Transition Research:
A Factorial Survey Approach". In: _Sustainability_, p. 8084.

Rüttenauer, T. and H. Best (2021). "Environmental inequality and residential sorting in Germany: A
spatial time-series analysis of the demographic consequences of industrial sites". In: _Demography_,
pp. 2243-2263.

Schlosberg, D. (2007). _Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature_. OUP Oxford.
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