Williams, Flor (2024) Coastal Homeowners’ Perceptions and Actions Towards Climate Change: A Case Study of Hawai’i. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Hawai’i is a state vulnerable to climate change due to its geographical location and the fact that it is an island. While one might expect they would have high levels of understanding and feel the responsibility to take action, Hawai’i’s homeowners have a complex relationship between their perceptions towards climate change and subsequent actions to reduce their individual impact. This study investigates the relationship between the two. The data for this study was collected through a survey with 37 respondents. To analyze the data, I use patterns looking at certain factors within three main themes - homeowners’ perceptions and homeowners’ actions based on their perceptions. I analyze the patterns using linear or logistic regressions and correlations when applicable. The main findings are that the level of threat homeowners feel about climate change strongly influences how anxious they feel about the future state of the climate, but their understanding of climate change had no clear impact on their level of anxiety. Moreover, whether homeowners believed that humans are responsible for climate change did not influence their likelihood of taking climate-positive action, instead, that was very strongly related to how much they believed that individuals’ actions make a difference.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Feron, S.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2024 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 10:00 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/438 |
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