Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.02.010 |
Integration anxiety: The cognitive isolation of climate change | |
Findlater, K. M.1,2; Donner, S. D.3; Satterfield, T.1; Kandlikar, M.1,4 | |
2018-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS |
ISSN | 0959-3780 |
EISSN | 1872-9495 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 50页码:178-189 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada; South Africa |
英文摘要 | Experts recommend that decision-makers in climate-vulnerable sectors integrate, or 'mainstream', climate change adaptation into their decision-making. Farmers are often thought to do so intuitively, because many climate change impacts will manifest in similar ways to the weather and climate variability that farmers have always faced. However, there is little evidence to suggest whether farmers are already doing this, how they should go about it, and how hard it might be. Here we show that commercial grain farmers in South Africa (N = 90), as a uniquely informative group, are struggling to mainstream climate change risk management despite their apparent incentive, capacity and willingness to adapt. They perform large-scale, highly mechanized, input-intensive grain farming like their peers in higher-income countries (e.g., the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia), but without the government subsidies, crop insurance and irrigation more common in other regions. They are therefore motivated to adapt proactively because they are more vulnerable to the financial harms of weather and climate risks. Our data show that they are explicitly sensitive to the risks of climate change, generally expressing concern for its potential impacts, reporting observed changes, proposing possible adaptations, and expressing the desire to adapt proactively, However, their mental models of climate change (n = 30) are linguistically and structurally isolated from their mental models of weather and other 'normal' risks. They are therefore implicitly insensitive to climate change, making it unlikely that they will adapt proactively and rationally to this uncertain risk that they otherwise appear well-equipped to manage. |
英文关键词 | Climate change adaptation Mainstreaming Decision making Risk perceptions Conservation agriculture Mental models |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000436223800015 |
WOS关键词 | CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE ; ADAPTIVE CAPACITY ; ADAPTATION ; FARMERS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37837 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ British Columbia, Inst Resources Environm & Sustainabil, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2.Univ Cape Town, African Climate & Dev Initiat, Cape Town, South Africa; 3.Univ British Columbia, Dept Geog, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 4.Univ British Columbia, Sch Publ Policy & Global Affairs, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Findlater, K. M.,Donner, S. D.,Satterfield, T.,et al. Integration anxiety: The cognitive isolation of climate change[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2018,50:178-189. |
APA | Findlater, K. M.,Donner, S. D.,Satterfield, T.,&Kandlikar, M..(2018).Integration anxiety: The cognitive isolation of climate change.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,50,178-189. |
MLA | Findlater, K. M.,et al."Integration anxiety: The cognitive isolation of climate change".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 50(2018):178-189. |
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