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Survival First: How Citizens Prioritize Competing Climate-Health Risk Countermeasures Under Fiscal Constraints
Katsuya Tanaka1,2,3, Kazuhide Akaishi4,5
1Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Hikone City, Japan.
Summary
Citizen priorities for climate-health actions don't always align with fiscal support. People prioritize immediate survival measures, but this doesn't always translate to willingness to pay for them.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Health
- Public Policy
- Behavioral Economics
Background:
- Governments face challenges allocating limited resources for climate-health countermeasures.
- Citizen risk priorities influence political feasibility but their link to fiscal support is unclear.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and test a framework integrating citizen priorities into an acceptance model.
- To determine if preference intensity predicts willingness to pay (WTP) for climate-health countermeasures.
Main Methods:
- Hybrid best-worst scaling and contingent valuation framework.
- Analysis of a large-sample survey of residents in Yokohama, Japan.
- Integration of individual-level priority parameters into an acceptance model.
Main Results:
- Citizens prioritize immediate survival measures over long-term interventions.
- A disconnect exists between high-priority measures and WTP, suggesting an entitlement view.
- Chronic quality-of-life burdens, not acute symptoms, correlate with WTP; private cooling costs hinder public adaptation support.
Conclusions:
- Preference intensity and fiscal support may follow distinct evaluative pathways.
- Standard WTP valuation methods may misrepresent public risk priorities.
- Understanding these distinct pathways is crucial for effective climate-health policy and financing.
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