Since 1986, the ISSP has provided high-quality data on attitudes and behaviors on important societal issues such as family, health, work, religion, the role of government, social inequality, the environment, national identity and citizenship, social networks, or leisure and sports.

The newly launched ISSP User Conference Series is designed to provide a platform for the various global research activities based on cross-national ISSP data. It aims to stimulate exchanges between individual researchers, to expand the ISSP research community, to increase the ISSP’s visibility and to inform the global policy discussions on important societal issues.

The ISSP User Conference will be held once a year and will focus on a different main theme each year, starting with Social Inequality in 2022.


2nd ISSP User Conference on ‘Environment’

Online Event | December 4, 2023 | 12:30-16:30 (CET)

Registration is closed. For those seeking late registrations, kindly reach out to issp.sec@gmail.com

We are excited to announce that the second annual user conference will focus on the topic of ‘Environment’. This highly anticipated event is scheduled to take place online on December 4, 2023.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

The Call for Abstracts is closed.

PROGRAM:

You can download the conference program as a PDF.
An extended version of the program including abstracts can be found here: Extended program.

12:30-12:40 Short welcome and introduction to the ISSP

Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne)

12:40-13:40 Session 1: Attitudes & perceptions towards the environment

Chair: Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne)

1. Exploring Environmental Attitude Changes in Japan and Germany 1993-2020
Joanna Kitsnik, & Carola Hommerich (Sophia University, Japan)

2. Climate Change Risk Perception Gap: Climate Change Exposure and Perceived Impacts in Cross-National Perspective
Aistė Balžekienė, & Audronė Telešienė (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)

3. Understanding Environmental Skepticism in Central Europe: Evidence from the International Social Survey Programme Environment Module (2020)
Bruno Šimac, Vladimir Ivanović, & Tijana Trako Poljak (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

4. Inhibiting or Contributing? How Global Liberal Forces Impact Climate Change Skepticism
Jessica Kim, Yasemin Soysal (both WZB Berlin, Germany), Hector Cebolla Boado (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Madrid, Spain), Laura Schimmöller (Free University Berlin, Germany)

13:55-14:40 Session 2: Institutional trust & environmental policy

Chair: Markus Hadler (University of Graz)

5. Using the Campbell paradigm to understand the role of institutional trust in environmental policy support
Jan Urban, & Ewa Duda (Charles University, Prague)

6. Environmental Insecurity and Institutional Trust Deficit: A Framework Analysis of Pro-Environmental Behaviour
Chinglen Laishram (University of Baroda, India), & TK Singh (Central University of Gujarat, India)

7. Institutional trust and climate policy preference – Evidence from Iceland
Sóllilja Bjarnadóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland), Malcolm Fairbrother (Umeå University, Sweden), Sigrún Ólafsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland), & Jason Beckfield (Harvard University, Cambridge, United States)

14:55-15:55 Session 3: Equity, equality & inclusion

Chair: Anouk Jasmine Albien (University of Lausanne)

8. The Relationship Between Subjectively Reported Experiences of Negative Environmental Effects and Environmental Activist Behaviours
Vaidas Morkevicius, Egle Butkeviciene, & Audrone Telesiene (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)

9. Do “environmental losers” pay the price? The role of individual vulnerabilities in the relationship between environmental concern and willingness to protect the environment
Marta Moroni & Giulia Dotti Sani (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy)

10. Ladies first? The positive effect of gender equality on women’s environmental political participation across countries
Summer Isaacson (University of Konstanz, Germany)

11. Environmental agency as a key component of sustainability competence
Triin Roosalu, Maaris Raudsepp, Margarita Kazjulja, Marti Taru, Jelena Helemäe, Eve-Liis Roosmaa, Kairit Kall, Pille Ubakivi-Hadachi (Tallinn University, Estonia)

15:55-16:10 Closure of the conference

ORGANIZERS:

The ISSP Secretariat and the Editors of the planned special issue of the International Journal of Sociology (IJS) on the ISSP “Environment IV” module.

CONTACT:

For any questions related to this online conference, you can contact the ISSP Secretariat.


Past Events

1st ISSP User Conference: Social Inequality

Date: December 12, 2022

Thank you to everyone who attended the 1st ISSP User Conference on the topic of Social Inequality. It was a great success, featuring insightful discussions and engaging presentations. If you missed the event or would like to review the full program, please click here.