Narratives of climate change: introduction

Daniels, Stephen; Endfield, Georgina H.

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2008.09.005

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“…While research interviews engender an artificial situation (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000) where interviewees may feel the need to provide answers they think the interviewer wants to hear (Schwarz, 1999), stories told within an interview can also form part of an important 'meaning-making process' (Seidman, 2013, p. 7), interpreted by the researcher using theoretical underpinnings to form relevant conclusions. Daniels and Endfield (2009) suggest that the method in which people receive and interpret climate information, particularly of its "dangerous" nature, affects resulting actions. Thus, by producing their own stories, interviewees offer a window into personal experiences and a mechanism by which to self-reflect (Hards, 2012).…”

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Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?

Sharman

Howarth

2016

Public Underst Sci

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Public perceptions of the climate debate predominantly frame the key actors as climate scientists (CSs) versus sceptical voices (SVs); however it is unclear why CSs and SVs choose to participate in this antagonistic and polarised public battle. A narrative interview approach is used to better understand the underlying rationales behind 22 CSs' and SVs' engagement in the climate debate, potential commonalities, as well as each actor's ability to be critically selfreflexive. Several overlapping rationales are identified including a sense of duty to publicly engage, agreement that complete certainty about the complex assemblage of climate change is unattainable, and that political factors are central to the climate debate. We argue that a focus on potential overlaps in perceptions and rationales as well as the ability to be critically selfreflexive may encourage constructive discussion amongst actors previously engaged in purposefully antagonistic exchange on climate change.

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Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?

Sharman

Howarth

2016

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“…stories of historic drought events), which can give new insights into societal responses and feedbacks (e.g. Daniels and Endfield, 2009). This is an example of how citizen science can help harvest data.…”

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Drought in a human-modified world: reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

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Stahl

Baldassarre

et al. 2016

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In the current human-modified world, or Anthropocene, the state of water stores and fluxes has become dependent on human as well as natural processes. Water deficits (or droughts) are the result of a complex interaction between meteorological anomalies, land surface processes, and human inflows, outflows, and storage changes. Our current inability to adequately analyse and manage drought in many places points to gaps in our understanding and to inadequate data and tools. The Anthropocene requires a new framework for drought definitions and research. Drought definitions need to be revisited to explicitly include human processes driving and modifying soil moisture drought and hydrological drought development. We give recommendations for robust drought definitions to clarify timescales of drought and prevent confusion with related terms such as water scarcity and overexploitation. Additionally, our understanding and analysis of drought need to move from single driver to multiple drivers and from uni-directional to multi-directional. We identify research gaps and propose analysis approaches on (1) drivers, (2) modifiers, (3) impacts, (4) feedbacks, and (5) changing the baseline of drought in the Anthropocene. The most pressing research questions are related to the attribution of drought to its causes, to linking drought impacts to drought characteristics, and to societal adaptation and responses to drought. Example questions includePublished by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. Answering these questions requires exploration of qualitative and quantitative data as well as mixed modelling approaches. The challenges related to drought research and management in the Anthropocene are not unique to drought, but do require urgent attention. We give recommendations drawn from the fields of flood research, ecology, water management, and water resources studies. The framework presented here provides a holistic view on drought in the Anthropocene, which will help improve management strategies for mitigating the severity and reducing the impacts of droughts in future.

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“…Por una parte, la segmentación de audiencia que se basa en la identificación de distintos grupos dentro de la sociedad a partir del análisis de factores psicológicos y sociales aso ciados a distintas posiciones frente al cambio climático, lo cual es utilizado no solo para entender las diferencias, sino también para desarrollar estrategias adaptadas a dichos grupos o considerando elementos transversales a la sociedad (e. Otro ámbito de acción y relacionado con lo anterior son los estudios sobre encuadre (frami ng) en los que se trata de activar aquellos elementos considerados como más relevantes con el fin de motivar cambios actituPsicología y cambio climático en Chile dinales o conductuales que favorezcan respuestas más efectivas al cambio climático (e.g., Bain et al, 2012;Gifford & Comeau, 2011;Howell, Capstick & Whitmarsh, 2016;Sapiains, Beeton & Walker, 2016). Finalmente estudios cualitativos en la línea de las narrativas (e.g., Daniels & Endfield, 2009;Drury, Homewood & Randall, 2010;Moser, 2010) y de las representaciones sociales del cambio climático (e.g., Alvear-Nár vaez, Ceballos-Sarria & Urbano-Bolaños, 2015; Correa, 2015; Gon zález Gaudiano, 2012; Meira-Cartea, 2013; Meira-Cartea & Arto-Blanco, 2014) han sido propuestos para entender las complejidades psicológicas y sociales del problema, el compo-nente subjetivo de la percepción del riesgo y las múltiples barreras psi cológicas que limitan el impacto del saber científico en la sociedad.…”

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Contribuciones de la Psicología al abordaje de la dimensión humana del cambio climático en Chile (Primera parte)

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Caviedes²

2017

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RESUMEnMúltiples estudios señalan que para abordar integralmente la problemática del cambio climá-tico es fundamental incorporar factores psicoló-gicos y sociales en el diseño, implementación y evaluación de estrategias de mitigación y adaptación. Estos factores resultan claves para incrementar la importancia del cambio climático en la agenda pública, favorecer un mayor involucramiento ciudadano y fortalecer la resiliencia individual, social e institucional, así como el im pacto de las políticas. No obstante, en Chile el estudio de los aspectos psicológicos del cambio climático es muy limitado.Por su extensión este trabajo se presenta en dos partes. En esta primera parte se pre senta una revisión bibliográfica que explora los principales ámbitos del cambio climático en los que la Psicología puede contribuir para comprender las complejidades del problema. Esto se organiza en cuatro grandes ejes: (1) la comunicación del cambio climático, (2) el estudio de cre encias, actitudes, valores y conductas relaciona das con el problema, (3) la identificación de facilitadores y barreras psicológicas para la implementación de prácticas de mitigación y adaptación y (4) los impactos del cambio climático en la salud mental. Estos ejes constituyen un marco de referencia para el posterior desarrollo de ámbi tos de acción que se apliquen específicamente al contexto chileno.Palabras clave: Cambio climático; Psicología, Chi le; Conductas pro-ambientales; Adaptación. AbSTRACTMultiple studies show that the integration of social and psychological factors in the design, implementation and evaluation of mitigation and

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Narratives of climate change: introduction

Cited by 109 publications

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Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?

Climate stories: Why do climate scientists and sceptical voices participate in the climate debate?

Drought in a human-modified world: reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

Contribuciones de la Psicología al abordaje de la dimensión humana del cambio climático en Chile (Primera parte)

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