Anthony Leiserowitz Explained

Anthony Leiserowitz
Nationality:American
Field:Human geography
Workplaces:Yale University
Alma Mater:University of Oregon Ph.D, 2003
Michigan State University B.A., 1990
Thesis Title:Global warming in the American mind : the roles of affect, imagery, and worldviews in risk perception, policy preferences, and behavior
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55141933
Thesis Year:2003
Doctoral Advisor:Paul Slovic
Awards:Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication (2020)[1]

Anthony Leiserowitz is a human geographer at Yale University who studies public perceptions of climate change. He has particularly examined perceptions within the United States, where people are considerably less aware of climate change than in other countries. In the U.S., awareness of information about climate change is heavily influenced by emotion, imagery, associations, and values. Their public discourse reflects a lack of understanding of the science involved in climate change and little awareness of the potential for effective responses to it.[2] [3]

Early life and education

Sometimes referred to as Tony Leiserowitz, he grew up on a farm in Michigan. His parents were sculptors. He received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1990, and then moved to Colorado with the intention of working as a ski bum. While there, he became interested in climate change and went to University of Oregon to study under Paul Slovic, an expert in risk perception. In 2003, Leiserowitz received his Ph.D. in human geography.

Career

He joined the faculty of Yale in 2007. He started to collaborate with Edward Maibach in 2008 to study people's perception of climate change.[4]

As of 2018, he had an appointment as a senior research scientist in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies [5] and was director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, a principal investigator at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, and a research scientist at Decision Research.[6]

He was the recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2011 Environmental Merit Award,[7] and as of 2013, he had published approximately 100 scientific articles and book chapters on climate change beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors.[8]

2021 documentary released

In 2021, Leiserowitz announced the creation of a film, Meltdown, that documents a journey he took to Greenland. The documentary was made during his travels to study the effects of climate change on Greenland firsthand. It contains his reactions to the experience and his comments on climate change, which he has been studying for decades. A promotional video appeared on cheddar.com at the end of February 2021.[9]

Selected papers

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Edward Maibach and Yale's Anthony Leiserowitz receive 2020 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication.
  2. Book: Forest . Sherrie . Feder . Michael A. . Climate Change Education: Goals, Audiences, and Strategies: A Workshop Summary . 2011 . National Academies Press . Washington, D.C. . 9780309218450 . 20 August 2018 . 19–23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180820172735/http://research3.fit.edu/sealevelriselibrary/documents/doc_mgr/921/NRC.%202011.%20Climate%20Change%20Education%27s%20Future.pdf . August 20, 2018 . dead .
  3. Book: Murray . Paul . The Sustainable Self: A Personal Approach to Sustainability Education . 2011 . Routledge . 978-1849712408 . 20 August 2018.
  4. News: Banerjee. Neela. What do Americans think about global warming?. Yale Alumni Magazine. January–February 2015. en.
  5. Web site: Anthony Leiserowtiz in the Yale Directory . Yale University . 22 July 2018.
  6. Web site: Staff. Yale Project on Climate Change Communication . December 4, 2013.
  7. Web site: 2012 Environmental Merit Award Recipients . October 13, 2015 . January 26, 2016. EPA.
  8. Web site: Leiserowitz Publications . Yale. December 4, 2013.
  9. Leiserowitz, Anthony, 'Meltdown' Documentary Offers Firsthand Look at Melting Ice in Greenland, Chedder, February 23, 2021 (video)

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