Preliminary ideas about my PhD project

Some ideas about my PhD project, very preliminary.

'Trust, responsbility, and value: deliberation on global warming'

The sense of trust refers to trust in institutions, experts and the rest of the public, while responsbility is about how the costs and precautionary works are attributed, i.e. to the state, to private companies, or to NGOs?

Do these influence individiuals' environmental behaviours? especially in articulating a value for nature?

These all involve justice, both distributional and procedural justice.
Are these valid dimensions of environmental value?

And we can make use of focus group to further investigate how they interact and transform in a deliberation process.

So the ultimate questions are: does justice count? does 'economic' value exist?

Research design may include a paper survey and a focus group. If my supervisor can give me extra funding (it will take quite a lot time and $$), we can do a cultural comparative study, in China and Australia. If China is not feasible, Taiwan is a second choice.