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Understanding climate change adaptation: the role of citizens’ perceptions and appraisals about extreme weather events
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Climate change is driving dramatic environmental changes and posing
new demands to citizens, health authorities, and policy makers worldwide. This is
due to an increased frequency, intensity, and duration of associated extreme
weather events. Recent calls for better understanding of how citizens adapt to such
demands and the role that psychological processes’ play in that adaptation, have
been put forward. We contributed in this regard by (1) applying the
Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat (e.g. Blascovich 2008) to the
study of human responses (psychological, physiological, and behavioural) to
extreme weather events; (2) using it as the conceptual basis for a mixed methods
study aimed at exploring citizens’ perceptions, beliefs, and appraisals of the demands
posed by such events and available resources to cope with them. Preliminary
qualitative results are presented and potential implications for stakeholders and
policy makers in the climate change domain are discussed. An example of how such
conceptual and methodological approaches may contribute to developing
evidence-based strategies for incrementing citizens’ resilience and adaptation to climate change, will be provided. This allow a better understanding of citizen
appraisals and perceptions’ role in shaping adaptive behaviour, in order to provide
them with the necessary personal and social resources to cope with extreme weather
events and increment future resilience.
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Palavras-chave
Climate change Extreme weather events Adaptation Psychological processes Coping
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Theory and Practice of Climate Adaptation Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_3
Editora
Springer International Publishing AG