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COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences
COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented health and economic crisis worldwide. Many governments of the world have accelerated an adoption of public policies to address this crisis; however, a trade-off between the economy and public health exists. Previous studies in this area have mainly focused on the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35300963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113082 |
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author | Escario, José-Julián Rodriguez-Sanchez, Carla Valero-Gil, Jesus Casaló, Luis V. |
author_facet | Escario, José-Julián Rodriguez-Sanchez, Carla Valero-Gil, Jesus Casaló, Luis V. |
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description | COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented health and economic crisis worldwide. Many governments of the world have accelerated an adoption of public policies to address this crisis; however, a trade-off between the economy and public health exists. Previous studies in this area have mainly focused on the impact of COVID-19 on human life and the environment. This work adds to the literature by analyzing how individual environmental concern can affect citizens' preferences for public policies that deal with COVID-19. A data set of 26,131 participants from 26 countries was used to test the research model. Results indicate that environmental concern is positively associated with a preference for long-term oriented altruistic policies, and it shapes the relationship between economic and health problems at the country level on our dependent variable. Specifically, as the level of environmental concern increases, the negative effect of COVID-19's economic problems on the preference for long-term altruistic policies is diminished. In turn, in the case of health problems, the impact on the preference for long-term altruistic policies increases as environmental concern increases. Also, both individual-level and country-level characteristics affect citizens' preferences for policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-89201152022-03-15 COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences Escario, José-Julián Rodriguez-Sanchez, Carla Valero-Gil, Jesus Casaló, Luis V. Environ Res Article COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented health and economic crisis worldwide. Many governments of the world have accelerated an adoption of public policies to address this crisis; however, a trade-off between the economy and public health exists. Previous studies in this area have mainly focused on the impact of COVID-19 on human life and the environment. This work adds to the literature by analyzing how individual environmental concern can affect citizens' preferences for public policies that deal with COVID-19. A data set of 26,131 participants from 26 countries was used to test the research model. Results indicate that environmental concern is positively associated with a preference for long-term oriented altruistic policies, and it shapes the relationship between economic and health problems at the country level on our dependent variable. Specifically, as the level of environmental concern increases, the negative effect of COVID-19's economic problems on the preference for long-term altruistic policies is diminished. In turn, in the case of health problems, the impact on the preference for long-term altruistic policies increases as environmental concern increases. Also, both individual-level and country-level characteristics affect citizens' preferences for policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-08 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8920115/ /pubmed/35300963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113082 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Escario, José-Julián Rodriguez-Sanchez, Carla Valero-Gil, Jesus Casaló, Luis V. COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
title | COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
title_full | COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
title_short | COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
title_sort | covid-19 related policies: the role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35300963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113082 |
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