%0 journal article
%@ 1674-9278
%A Storch, H.v., Chen, X., Pfau-Effinger, B., Bray, D., Ullmann, A.

%D 2019
%J Advances in Climate Change Research
%N 3
%P 158-164 
%R doi:10.1016/j.accre.2019.04.001
%T Attitudes of young scholars in Qingdao and Hamburg about climate change and climate policy – The role of culture for the explanation of differences
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2019.04.001
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%X In order to evaluate these hypotheses, we have conducted a comparative survey among environmental science students in Qingdao (China) and Hamburg (Germany) about their attitudes towards climate change. The findings support our main hypotheses. The young scholars in Qingdao and Hamburg differ substantially in their views of the role of science in society and policymaking. Plausibly, these differences may mainly be explained with differences in the cultural ideas about the role of the state and of the civil society for the solution of environmental problems. Gradual differences in the share of young scholars who think that climate change has anthropogenic causes, may be explained with differences in the curriculum but also by cultural habits. This article makes a new contribution to the scientific debate by exploring the role of cultural differences for differences in the attitudes of young scholars in environmental science in connection with climate change and climate policy in different cultural contexts.