Climate change awareness and strategies for communicating the risk of coastal flooding: A Canadian Maritime case example

Lieske, David J.; Wade, Tracey; Roness, Lori Ann

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.04.017

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“…Environmental problems have become a serious social risk that need to be urgently solved all over the world. The public's voluntary pro-environmental behavior, including that of youths, is critical to achieve environmental sustainability [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Moreover, because college students will be the leaders of society and decision makers of public institutions, understanding their environmental concerns and behavior has great value for policymakers who want to improve environmental policy compliance and governance [7].…”

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Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Zeng

Jiang

Yuan

2020

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Mixed evidence exists regarding the relationship between environmental risk perception and pro-environmental behavior. This study uses an existing online survey conducted by the Center of Ecological Civilization (CEC) of China University of Geosciences from December 2015 to March 2016 and examines how cultural bias influences environmental risk perception and behavior. We found that an individual's pro-environmental behavior is not only influenced by environmental risk perception, but also by his or her cultural worldviews. Built on culture theory (CT), our empirical results suggest that young Chinese people are more located in "high-group" culture, where egalitarian culture and hierarchical culture dominate. The higher scores of hierarchical and egalitarian cultures of Chinese youth, the more likely they are to protect the environment. Moreover, the relationship between cultural worldviews and pro-environmental behaviors are mediated by perceived environmental risks. culture influences pro-environmental behavior directly. This study also tries to test the generalizability of CT by applying CT to non-Western countries.This paper uses an existing online survey conducted by the Center for Ecological Civilization of China University of Geosciences (CEC) from December 2015 to March 2016. Our sample includes 8084 students from 152 universities in 30 provinces across China, who were surveyed on the Internet. This research makes contributions in four aspects. First, this large-scale data allows us to map the distribution of environmental risk perception and pro-environmental behavior among young people in China. Second, this paper is the first research testing the influence of individuals' cultural worldviews on pro-environmental behavior in China. More specifically, we test the effects of culture worldviews, environmental risk perception and other control variables, including knowledge and demographics, on pro-environmental behavior. Third, this paper analyzes how the relationship between risk culture and pro-environmental behavior is mediated by an individual's cultural bias. Fourth, Douglas (1982) used the "grid-group" framework to analyze how the relations between individuals and society determine people's perception of risk. CT was then introduced by Wildavsky to study politics in the United States and was applied to many western countries [23]. However, there is only a few pieces of research on China [21,22]. This study will contribute to improve CT's generalizability by applying CT to Chinese context and providing some implications for measuring culture based on existing research.The paper starts with a review of CT and its application in China. Based on the theory and existing research on the relationships among cultures, environmental risk perception, and pro-environmental behavior, we suggest three sets of research hypotheses in Section 2. Section 3 introduces data, variables, and methods used to test our hypotheses. Section 4 describes the result of our data testing and examines its robustness. Section 5 is t...

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“…Environmental risk perception stimulates people's sense of urgency and responsibility to protect the environment and encourages more environmental protection behaviors [1,2,8]. However, other scholars have found that there is a discrepancy between environmental risk perception and environmental protection behaviors [9,10].…”

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Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Zeng

Jiang

Yuan

2020

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“…The visual element in this type of EDSS may also increase user awareness and understanding of local climate change adaptation and mitigation options (Schroth et al ; Sheppard et al ; Bowron and Davidson ; Sheppard et al ; Schroth et al ). Further, presenting information visually allows information to be illustrated at a local scale which participants may more closely identify with, and may then have greater effect than information presented in text (Shaw et al ; Lieske ; Sheppard et al ). The strengths of the participatory scenario development component of this type of EDSS are also well‐documented and build upon the strengths of the visual element.…”

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Stakeholder engagement with environmental decision support systems: The perspective of end users

Reiter

Meyer

Parrott

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Environmental decision support systems (EDSS) are designed to assist natural resource managers and stakeholders to assess problems and select options for change. EDSS that combine community engagement in developing future scenarios with computer‐based land use planning and modelling tools are widely used internationally. However, these EDSS are often not used after the research and development phase. To best understand why the EDSS are not being used in the long term, the end users of the EDSS should be consulted—a perspective that is lacking in the literature. The research reported here presents the perspectives of stakeholders involved in a community climate change adaptation project in western Canada. Evidence from the community suggests that this project was successful in instigating change. However, the EDSS was not used after the project's end. Our findings indicate that, from the end users’ perspective, the project could have had much greater and sustained success had there been ongoing engagement and communication with them, particularly in the form of continued support for the use of EDSS after the development project.

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“…This might be interpreted as a barrier to adaptation on the individual level, which also has been identified in previous studies (c.f. Adger et al 2013, Lieske et al 2014). However, the perceived low personal responsibility of managing long term climate change effects seemed blurred by a generally low knowledge of what such management actually might imply in terms of adaptation.…”

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“…Such barriers relate to the perceived severity and likelihood of local impacts (perceptions on risks) as well as on the perceived own ability and role to manage these (perceptions on responses) (Lieske et al 2014;Blennow and Persson 2009;Wolf and Moser 2011;Grothmann and Patt 2005). The below themes were identified in the transcribed empirical material, i.e.…”

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Facilitating climate change adaptation through communication: Insights from the development of a visualization tool

Glaas

Ballantyne

Neset

et al. 2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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Climate change communication on anticipated impacts and adaptive responses is frequently presented as an effective means to facilitate implementation of adaptation to mitigate risks to residential buildings. However, it requires that communication is developed in a way that resonates with the context of the target audience, provides intelligible information and addresses perceived barriers to adaptation. In this paper we reflect upon criteria for useful climate change communication gained over a three year development process of a web-based tool -VisAdapt TMaimed at increasing the adaptive capacity among Nordic homeowners. Based on the results from continuous user-testing and focus group interviews we outline lessons learned and key aspects to consider in the design of tools for communicating complex issues such as climate change effects and adaptive response measures.

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Climate change awareness and strategies for communicating the risk of coastal flooding: A Canadian Maritime case example

Cited by 79 publications

References 31 publications

Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Environmental Risk Perception, Risk Culture, and Pro-Environmental Behavior

Stakeholder engagement with environmental decision support systems: The perspective of end users

Facilitating climate change adaptation through communication: Insights from the development of a visualization tool

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