Individual perceptions of climate anomalies and collective action: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Malaysian Borneo

• Main Authors: GEVELT, Terry Van, ZAMANB, T., CHANC, K.N., BENNETTD, M.M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Climate anomalies; Perceptions; Collective action; Climate change adaptation; Artefactual field experiments; Sarawak; Asian Studies; Urban Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/25; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1024/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S2772655X22000301_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We explore the effect of individual perceptions of climate anomalies on collective action within a context of environmental complexity and uncertainty. To do so, we construct two competing propositions that are theoretically robust but with very different real-world implications. Our first propositi...