The Al Gore effect: An Inconvenient Truth and voluntary carbon offsets

By Grant D. Jacobsen. 2011

144 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/34c41823e02f39425e2b761c06bed931118b4220

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Dorian Litvine
2. Rolf Wüstenhagen

In Marketing

1. Miles Richardson
2. A. Hunt
3. Dorian Litvine
4. Holli-Anne Passmore
5. Rolf Wüstenhagen
6. John Th⊘gersen

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Miles Richardson
2. A. Hunt
3. Dorian Litvine
4. Holli-Anne Passmore
5. Rolf Wüstenhagen

Citations in the corpus

• The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours (2020, background): “While direct contact with nature has been shown to be more powerful in its beneficial impact, indirect contact with nature has also been shown to promote knowledge and caring for nature (Hofman & Hughes, 2018; Howell, 2014; Jacobsen, 2011; Janpol & Dilts, 2016).”
• Helping "light green" consumers walk the talk: Results of a behavioural intervention survey in the Swiss electricity market (2011, background): “…have encouraged most of households to reduce their energy consumption during the Californian energy crisis in 2000/2001 (“I want to do my part”), and Jacobsen (2010) shows how following the release of Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, residential purchases of voluntary carbon offsets…”
• Economic and Social Impacts of the Media (2015, unknown): “Documentaries can indeed have an impact on behavior as the Jacobsen (2011) paper stresses; however, this impact is likely to be limited given that the audience interested in documentaries is relatively small and mostly consisting of individuals already embracing a cause.”