Social capital, individual responses to heat waves and climate change adaptation: An empirical study of two UK cities

Wolf, Johanna; Adger, W. Neil; Lorenzoni, Irene; Abrahamson, Vanessa; Raine, Rosalind

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.09.004

Cited by 373 publications

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“…Consistent with media content, public awareness of adaptation responses is much lower than cognizance of mitigation in the UK and other economically-developed countries (Akerlof et al 2010;Brügger 2010;Whitmarsh 2009) and many people do not feel personally at risk from climate impacts (O'Neill and NicholsonCole 2009) or take any action to protect themselves from flooding or heat stress (Whitmarsh 2008;Wolf et al 2010). When prompted, individuals who accept the reality of anthropogenic climate change do support policies to adapt to climate change (e.g.…”

Section: Communication and Perception Of Climate Change Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of adaptation and responsibility framings on attitudes towards climate change mitigation

2016

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It is likely that climate change communications and media coverage will increasingly stress the importance of adaptation, yet little is known about whether or how this may affect attitudes towards mitigation. Despite concerns that communicating adaptation could undermine public support for mitigation, previous research has found it can have the opposite effect by increasing risk salience. It is also unclear whether people respond differently to information about mitigation and adaptation depending on whether action is framed as an individual or government responsibility. Using an experimental design, this study sought to examine how public attitudes towards mitigation are influenced by varying climate change messages, and how this might interact with prior attitudes to climate change. UK-based participants (N = 800) read one of four texts in a 2 × 2 design comparing adaptation versus mitigation information and personal versus governmental action. No main effect was found for adaptation versus mitigation framing, nor for individual action versus government policy, but we did observe a series of interaction effects with prior attitudes to climate change. Mitigation and adaptation information affected participants' responses differently depending on their preexisting levels of concern about climate change, suggesting that mitigation framings may be more engaging for those with high levels of concern, whereas adaptation framings may be more engaging for low-concern individuals. Government mitigation action appears to engender particularly polarised attitudes according to prior concern. Implications for climate change communications are considered.

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Section: Communication and Perception Of Climate Change Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of adaptation and responsibility framings on attitudes towards climate change mitigation

2016

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“…Importantly, trust in individuals roots in positive (personal) experiences in specific contexts or in certain expectations based on 'proxies' (e.g. past performance, credentials, or expertise) and can translate to other areas, even if the expertise doesn't (Wolf et al 2010).…”

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Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap

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2011

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“…A systematic review of climate change adaptation research in developed nations found few articles documenting household-scale adaptation (Ford et al 2011). Those studies that did focus on households mostly considered direct climatic stimuli and impacts, such as heatwaves (Wolf et al 2010;Saman et al 2013), flooding and sea-level rise (Harvatt et al 2011;Barnett et al 2013). …”

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confidence: 99%