Climate, Affluence, and Culture

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ID23784173
AuthorsE Van De Vliert (0000-0003-3322-7829, University of Groningen, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-12-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueClimate, Affluence, and Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511575297
OpenAlexW4212854422
Open LibraryOL34440712M
ISBN9780511575297
LanguageEN
Citations received27

Everyone, everyday, everywhere has to cope with climatic cold or heat to satisfy survival needs, using money. This point of departure led to a decade of innovative research on the basis of the tenet that climate and affluence influence each other's impact on culture. Evert Van de Vliert discovered survival cultures in poor countries with demanding cold or hot climates, self-expression cultures in rich countries with demanding cold or hot climates, and easygoing cultures in poor and rich countries with temperate climates. These findings have implications for the cultural consequences of global warming and local poverty. Climate protection and poverty reduction are used in combination to sketch four scenarios for shaping cultures, from which the world community has to make a principal and principled choice soon.

Biology · Climate change · Cold war · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Geography · Global warming · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sketch · Temperate climate · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Ecology · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

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