Citizens’ Decision-Making Frameworks on Climate Change Policy Preferences

Validity of Climate Change Forecasting for Public Policy Decision Making

Policymakers need to know whether prediction is possible and if so whether any proposed forecasting method will provide forecasts that are substantively more accurate than those from the relevant benchmark method. Inspection of global temperature data suggests that it is subject to irregular variations on all relevant time scales and that variations during the late 1900s were not unusual. In su...

Policy Frameworks for the Ancillary Benefits of Climate Change Policies

Most environmental policy is targeted at specific goals: a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, achievement of some interim deposition or concentration level of air pollutants, improvements in water quality etc. These are policy targets or policy levels. Achieving given targets can involve different policy choices: standard setting, environmental taxes, public information campaigns, negotiate...

Decision making under uncertainty and learning about climate change

Dangerous news: media decision making about climate change risk.

This article explores the role of broadcast news media decision makers in shaping public understanding and debate of climate change risks. It locates the media within a "tangled web" of communication and debate between sources, media, and publics. The article draws on new qualitative research in the British context. The main body of it focuses on media source strategies, on climate change story...

Engaging the public in healthcare decision-making: quantifying preferences for healthcare through citizens’ juries

INTRODUCTION The optimal approach to engage the public in healthcare decision-making is unclear. Approaches range from deliberative citizens' juries to large population surveys using discrete choice experiments. This study promotes public engagement and quantifies preferences in two key areas of relevance to the industry partners to identify which approach is most informative for informing heal...