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    Narratives can motivate environmental action : the Whiskey Creek ocean acidification story

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    Date
    2014-04
    Author
    Kelly, Ryan P.  Concept link
    Cooley, Sarah R.  Concept link
    Klinger, Terrie  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6870
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    https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-013-0442-2
    Abstract
    Even when environmental data quantify the risks and benefits of delayed responses to rapid anthropogenic change, institutions rarely respond promptly. We propose that narratives complementing environmental datasets can motivate responsive environmental policy. To explore this idea, we relate a case study in which a narrative of economic loss due to regionally rapid ocean acidification—an anthropogenic change—helped connect knowledge with action. We pose three hypotheses to explain why narratives might be particularly effective in linking science to environmental policy, drawing from the literature of economics, environmental policy, and cognitive psychology. It seems that yet-untold narratives may hold similar potential for strengthening the feedback between environmental data and policy and motivating regional responses to other environmental problems.
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    Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2014. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Springer for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ambio 43 (2014): 592-599, doi:10.1007/s13280-013-0442-2.
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    Preprint: Kelly, Ryan P., Cooley, Sarah R., Klinger, Terrie, "Narratives can motivate environmental action : the Whiskey Creek ocean acidification story", 2014-04, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-013-0442-2, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6870
     
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