Titre :
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Framing Peak Petroleum as a Public Health Problem : Audience Research and Participatory Engagement in the United States. (2011)
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Auteurs :
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NISBET (Matthew-C) : USA. School of Communication. American University. Washington. DC. ;
LEISEROWITZ (Anthony) : USA. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale Project on Climate Change. Yale University. New Haven. CT. ;
MAIBACH (Edward) : USA. Department of Communication and the Center for Climate Change Communication. George Mason University. Fairfax. VA.
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of public health (vol. 101, n° 9, 2011)
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Pagination :
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1620-1626
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Pétrole
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Participation
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Amérique
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0x8qAC9. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Between December 2009 and January 2010, we conducted a nationally representative telephone survey of US adults (n=1001 ; completion rate=52.9%) to explore perceptions of risks associated with peak petroleum. We asked respondents to assess the likelihood that oil prices would triple over the next 5 years and then to estimate the economic and health consequences of that event. Nearly half (48%) indicated that oil prices were likely to triple, causing harm to human health ; an additional 16% said dramatic price increases were unlikely but would harm health if they did occur. A large minority (44%) said sharp increases in oil prices would be "very harmful" to health. Respondents who self-identified as very conservative and those who were strongly dismissive of climate change were the respondents most likely to perceive very harmful health consequences.
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