Mental preparation for climate adaptation: The role of cognition and culture in enhancing adaptive capacity of water management in Kiribati

Kuruppu, Natasha; Liverman, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.12.002

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“…This suggests that individuals are more likely to adapt to climate change if they have the ability and access to resources to anticipate and respond to climatic risk and if socio-economic conditions are favourable. Editor:Shuaib Lwasa. A growing field of research, however, has argued that the structural approach is limited in its ability to explain adaptive capacity and action by individuals (Adger et al 2009;Kuruppu and Liverman 2011;Narayan 2005). This literature focusses instead on subjective factors that explain individuals' perceptions, intentions and actions for climate change adaptation (Grothmann and Patt 2005;Lorenzoni et al 2007;O'Brien and Wolf 2010).…”

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The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden

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A growing body of literature argues that subjective factors can more accurately explain individual adaptation to climate change than objective measurers of adaptive capacity. Recent studies have shown that personal belief in climate change and affect are much better in explaining climate awareness and action than income, education or gender. This study focuses on the process of individual adaptation to climate change. It assesses and compares the influence of cognitive, experiential and structural factors on individuals' views and intentions regarding climate change adaptation. Data from this study comes from a survey with 836 forest owners in Sweden. Ordinal and binary logistic regression was used to test hypotheses about the different factors. Results show that cognitive factors-namely personal level of trust in climate science, belief in the salience of climate change and risk assessment-are the only statistically significant factors that can directly explain individuals' intention to adapt to climate change and their sense of urgency. Findings also suggest that structural or socio-demographic factors do not have a statistically significant influence on adaptation decision-making among Swedish forest owners. The study also offers valuable insights for communication interventions to promote adaptation. Findings strongly suggest that communication interventions should focus more strongly on building trust and addressing stakeholders' individual needs and experiences.

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The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden

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“…Resilience is heavily shaped by sociocultural and psychological factors such as risk perception, cognitive barriers and personal or cultural values, which can each play a key role in determining whether adaptation is sought, or whether people have access to vital resources in times of need (Kuruppu and Liverman 2011;Jones and Boyd 2011). Given that the point of view rests with the individual directly, subjective indicators allow for many of these 'softer' aspects of resilience-often difficult to capture through objective means-to be better factored in.…”

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‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

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How should we measure a household's resilience to climate extremes, climate change or other evolving threats? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of 'objective' frameworks and methods of indicator selection. These typically depend on a range of observable socio-economic variables, such as levels of income, the extent of a household's social capital or its access to social safety nets. Yet while objective methods have their uses, they suffer from well-documented weaknesses. This paper advocates for the use of an alternative but complementary method: the measurement of 'subjective' resilience at the household level. The concept of subjective resilience stems from the premise that people have an understanding of the factors that contribute to their ability to anticipate, buffer and adapt to disturbance and change. Subjective household resilience therefore relates to an individual's cognitive and affective self-evaluation of their household's capabilities and capacities in responding to risk. We discuss the advantages and limitations of measuring subjective household resilience and highlight its relationships with other concepts such as perceived adaptive capacity, subjective well-being and psychological resilience. We then put forward different options for the design and delivery of survey questions on subjective household resilience. While the approach we describe is focused at the household level, we show how it has the potential to be aggregated to inform sub-national or national resilience metrics and indicators. Lastly, we highlight how subjective methods of resilience assessment could be used to improve policy and decision-making. Above all, we argue that, alongside traditional objective measures and indicators, efforts to measure resilience should take into account subjective aspects of household resilience in order to ensure a more holistic understanding of resilience to climate extremes and disasters.

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“…Regarding the forth question, besides economic factors such as governmental compensation or insurance system, the reaction of the society to climate change depends on cognition and culture factors (Kuruppu and Liverman 2011). They have done the research on the local societies of the Kiribatti islands where the awareness of climate change is high and the climate change is visible with a ''bare eye'' of the respondents.…”

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Guidelines for the adaptation to floods in changing climate

Doroszkiewicz

Romanowicz

2017

Acta Geophys.

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A decrease of flood damages in the future requires not only adaptation to flood caused by present day climate, but also climate change effects on floods should be taken into account. The paper illustrates the need to take into account changing climate conditions in flood adaptation strategies and to apply in practice the concept of integrated water resource management (IWRM). IWRM is based on a number of policy instruments, economic instruments, political signals, and also, on the effects of climate change on floods and collaboration across national, regional and local administrative units. The guidelines for a country adaptation to floods in a changing climate are outlined. A comparison of the adaptive capacities in Poland and Norway is used to illustrate the need for the implementation of proposed guidelines to assure flood risk management under climate change in a sustainable way.

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Mental preparation for climate adaptation: The role of cognition and culture in enhancing adaptive capacity of water management in Kiribati

Cited by 225 publications

References 38 publications

The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden

The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden

‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

Guidelines for the adaptation to floods in changing climate

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