Politics versus Science: How (Non-)Scientific Discourses Affect Citizens’ Attitudes and Concerns about Nuclear Energy Issue

• In Event: Environmental Public Opinion and Policy Preferences

Brief Overview

We conduct a survey experiment in Japan to examine how (non-)scientific discourses influence citizens’ attitudes and concerns about nuclear energy issues, focusing on the case of the discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant.

Author

• Ikuma Ogura, Hitotsubashi University