The relationship between risk experience and risk response: a study of farmers and climate change

Hamilton-Webb, Alice; Manning, Louise; Naylor, Rhiannon; Conway, J.

doi:10.1080/13669877.2016.1153506

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“…However, other research in the UK (Whitmarsh 2008;Hamilton-Webb et al 2016) addressing the link between flood experience and climate change engagement has produced some contrasting findings.…”

Section: Prior Research On Perceptions Of Flooding and Climate Changementioning

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“…Prior to Spence et al's (2011) study, Whitmarsh (2008) found no significant differences in perceived vulnerability to climate change or actions taken to address the issue between flood and non-flood victims in the south of England. More recently, Hamilton-Webb et al (2016) found that while flood experience was significantly associated with climate change concern and behavioural responses in a sample of UK farmers, mitigation actions such as reducing energy use and increasing use of minimum tillage were largely being undertaken as part of normal practice rather than with the intention of addressing climate change. In both studies, climate change was the least cited perceived cause of flooding, compared with other locally observable factors such as lack of watercourse maintenance.…”

Section: Prior Research On Perceptions Of Flooding and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Though, Hamilton-Webb et al (2016) observed that farmers who were reducing their energy use were also more likely to believe that climate change is a major cause of flooding in the UK. The authors of these two studies concluded that personal values appeared to be more important than experience in determining the way people engage with flooding in the context of climate change.…”

Section: Prior Research On Perceptions Of Flooding and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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The moderating role of political affiliation in the link between flooding experience and preparedness to reduce energy use

2017

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Research suggests that highlighting links between local weather events and climate change can help promote climate change engagement. Yet, the evidence for the relationship between weather experiences and climate change attitudes has been mixed. Here we argue that obtaining an accurate assessment of the contribution of weather experiences to climate change engagement necessitates explicit evaluation of factors such as values and identities that influence the way weather experiences are interpreted and integrated into climate change attitudes. We re-analysed data from a prior study in which reported flood experience was found to be indirectly linked to preparedness to reduce energy use among UK residents. Overall, flood experience was positively linked with perceived vulnerability and negatively linked with uncertainty about climate change, but the purported indirect relationship between flood experience and preparedness to reduce energy use was observed among left and not right-leaning voters. We concluded that assessing interactions between extreme weather experiences and political affiliation lends valuable nuance to evaluation of the effects of such experiences on climate change perceptions and attitudes. Highlighting links between climate change and flooding may have varying levels of influence on climate change engagement depending on individuals' political affiliation.

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Section: Prior Research On Perceptions Of Flooding and Climate Changementioning

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Section: Prior Research On Perceptions Of Flooding and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Prior Research On Perceptions Of Flooding and Climate Changementioning

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The moderating role of political affiliation in the link between flooding experience and preparedness to reduce energy use

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“…Such voluntary measures are likely to have less impact than those supported by regulations or subsidies, although they may play an important role in ensuring that local communities can engage meaningfully with mitigation efforts 20,47 . Even where mitigation policies are supported by subsidies or regulations, however, uptake (or compliance) is generally a gradual, spatially-structured process that depends upon knowledge, socio-cultural context, personal experience and the presence of charismatic leaders or 'champions' who can initiate widespread action 47,48 .…”

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Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

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Achieving the Paris Agreement's aim of limiting average global temperature increases to 1.5⁰C requires substantial changes in the land system. However, individual countries' plans to accomplish these changes remain vague, almost certainly insufficient and unlikely to be implemented in full. These shortcomings are partially the result of avoidable 'blind spots' relating to time lags inherent in the implementation of landbased mitigation strategies. Key blind spots include inconsistencies between different land system policies, spatial and temporal lags in land system change, and detrimental consequences of some mitigation options. We suggest that improved recognition of these processes is necessary to identify achievable mitigation actions, avoiding excessively optimistic assumptions and consequent policy failures.

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“…Messling et al (2015) argue that there is now growing evidence that flooding and climate change are linked in the public mind, with those directly experiencing flooding being more likely to express concern and perceive its threat as high, based largely on quantitative modelling (Spence, et al 2011a. Others have argued that there is a limit to which individuals tend to intuitively attribute local flooding to global climate change (Whitmarsh 2008, van der Linden 2015, Hamilton-Webb et al 2016, and thus even the most extreme of flood experiences are unlikely to promote concern for, or encourage action against climate change. In this respect, the relationship between experience of local flooding, and response to global climate change deserves further qualitative un-picking.…”

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‘Living on the edge’: using cognitive filters to appraise experience of environmental risk

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Journal of Risk Research

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The way in which individuals respond to an experience of risk, both in attitudinal and behavioural terms can in part, be explained by the way that such an experience is interpreted and appraised. Taking climate change as an example in this paper, there is existing evidence that experience of local flooding can inform individuals' attitudes towards climate change. This trend however is not observed in all cases, and is highly dependent on the local context. This paper postulates that the variation observed in attitudinal and behavioural responses to climate change, following experiences of local flooding can, in part, be explained by the 'Cognitive Filters of Experience Appraisal' Model introduced in this paper. The model is developed through a review of the existing literature concerning appraisal (cognitive and experience), and a series of fifteen face to face interviews with farmers in the county of Gloucestershire, England, who have all directly experienced local flooding in recent years. The study is exploratory in nature, and the qualitative data serve as contextualised accounts of the different patterns of experience appraisal. The model of experience appraisal suggests that due to a number of cognitive filters, including, farmers' pre-existing views on risk, their perceptions relating to the severity of the experience, and their beliefs about other attributing factors; the sample population was found to be unlikely to appraise their experiences of flooding as evidence for global climate change. It is envisioned that with further research, the model of experience appraisal could be applied to various contexts of environmental risk in the future.

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The relationship between risk experience and risk response: a study of farmers and climate change

Cited by 45 publications

References 36 publications

The moderating role of political affiliation in the link between flooding experience and preparedness to reduce energy use

The moderating role of political affiliation in the link between flooding experience and preparedness to reduce energy use

Achievement of Paris climate goals unlikely due to time lags in the land system

‘Living on the edge’: using cognitive filters to appraise experience of environmental risk

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