Flirting with Disaster: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Support for Environmental Spending

• In Event: Climate Change and Opinion on Environmental Policy

Brief Overview

We investigate how natural disasters affect public opinion on environmental spending in the US, finding that the diversity of disasters occurring each year significantly drives support for environmental spending due to climate-focused policy imaging.

Authors

• Evan Matthew Mistur, The University of Texas at Arlington

• Anmol Soni, Louisiana State University