Understanding Climate Change Adaptation: The Role of Citizens’ Perceptions and Appraisals About Extreme Weather Events

Domingos, Samuel; Gaspar, Rui; Marôco, João; Beja, Rita

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“…Based on this approach, for a crisis to be perceived, three criteria must be met, namely, individuals must (p. 112): “(a) notice a deviation from what existed before; (b) appraise a threat (to her/him and/or other relevant people); and (c) implement strategies to reduce or eliminate it, based on seeking and mobilizing, not only individual but also social resources” (Gaspar et al, 2015; p. 112). Also relevant for understanding crisis perception is the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of challenge and threat (e.g., Blascovich & Mendes, 2000), which although not having been developed for crisis research, has been applied to crisis situations and extreme events through the DecodeR framework (Domingos, Gaspar, Fonseca, & Marôco, 2020; Domingos, Gaspar, Marôco, & Beja, 2018; Gaspar, Yan, & Domingos, 2019), being also applicable to disease outbreaks and epidemics.…”

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Striving for crisis resolution or crisis resilience? The crisis layers and thresholds model and Information and Communication Technology‐mediated social sensing for evidence‐based crisis management and communication

Gaspar

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et al. 2020

Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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Do crisis evolve linearly through sequential one‐directional stages that end with their resolution? Or are crisis, a set of nonlinear events with somewhat a chaotic nature, better represented as multilayer relapse cycles, that is, a series of dynamic processes and templates that evolve at different levels of analysis and can either go forward—achievement—or go back—relapses? Moreover, should crisis always move forward to reach their resolution or should we strive to achieve social systems resilience, grounded on learning and adaptation processes, that is, moving forward and backwards, until achieving it? To argument in favor of achieving crisis resilience, we propose a theoretical model—the crisis layers and thresholds (CLT) model grounded on the following assumptions: (a) individuals' evaluations and responses should be the basis/core of crisis management and crisis communication activities; (b) different concurrent psychosocial and organizational processes occur at different levels of analysis of a crisis, from a microindividual level to a macro organization level; and (c) rather than striving for crisis resolution, we should strive for crisis resilience, preparing the social system for current and future emerging risks and crisis. To implement effective evidence‐based crisis management and crisis communication in line with such assumptions, we also propose the CLT‐ResiliScence approach, an Information and Communication Technology‐mediated crisis sensing approach. This is based on monitoring “social sensors” data, particularly from social media, as an important source of information. Examples of this will be provided based on research on the current COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Striving for crisis resolution or crisis resilience? The crisis layers and thresholds model and Information and Communication Technology‐mediated social sensing for evidence‐based crisis management and communication

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Brito³

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“…This is also the case in the Azores, whose population, although vulnerable, appears to be poorly prepared for earthquakes [2]. Similarly, the citizens' perceptions and appraisals about extreme weather events are key for understanding climate change mitigation and adaptation of the population, since climate change creates such new challenges worldwide that it is seen as one of the major societal existential risks [5]. This scientific knowledge and its local appropriation for risk preparedness, and the differences between them, have been found to contribute to the vulnerability of local populations to natural hazards [20,21].…”

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“…Understanding risk perception, and particularly risk awareness, is of major importance in risk management. It can improve efficient risk communication and inform mitigation strategies to reduce vulnerability and enhance resilience [1][2][4][5]. In light of the accelerating climate change processes, a better understanding of the role that risk perception has in shaping adaptive behavior is needed in order to cope with extreme weather events and enhance societal resilience [5].…”

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“…It can improve efficient risk communication and inform mitigation strategies to reduce vulnerability and enhance resilience [1][2][4][5]. In light of the accelerating climate change processes, a better understanding of the role that risk perception has in shaping adaptive behavior is needed in order to cope with extreme weather events and enhance societal resilience [5]. Furthermore, not only local risk perception but also public participation is needed when implementing mitigation measures.…”

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Telluric and Climate-Related Risk Awareness, and Risk Mitigation Strategies in the Azores Archipelago: First Steps for Building Societal Resilience

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Islands are often considered excellent socio-ecological laboratories for testing the rapidity of global change since they experience the climate effects of sea-level rise faster than other areas. The Azores are a Portuguese volcanic archipelago located on the junction of the three tectonic plates: the Eurasian, the African and the North American plates. São Miguel, the main island of the Azores archipelago, hosts three active volcanoes, but the last significant volcanic eruption was the Capelinhos volcano on the island of Faial in 1957. Hence, the Azores offers the opportunity to assess insular risk awareness, facing both telluric and climate-related hazards. The key research question emerges from their natural situation: how does the local population perceive the threat of the natural hazards that occur in Azores? Because risks are socially constructed and depend on the uniqueness of territories, risk mitigation strategies must focus on the individual experiences of local dwellers, as a relationship between risk awareness and such strategies may be expected. To analyze this relationship, a web-based survey with a questionnaire including these variables was administered to a sample of Azoreans. The study aimed to assess risk awareness of the Azorean population and find a relationship between this and reported mitigation strategies. The results gave a preliminary insight into Azorean risk awareness of natural hazards and showed a significant positive relationship between risk awareness-raising activities and reported mitigation strategies. This is relevant information for municipalities and regional governments of areas with similar risk exposures, showing that, although risk awareness alone is not enough for measures to be implemented, it may be an important motivational first step for this to occur.

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“…The role of experience in the public's assessment of climate change and extreme climate events has received increasing attention over the past decade (Hansen et al, 2012;Scruggs and Benegal, 2012;Akerlof et al, 2013;Capstick and Pidgeon, 2014;Capstick et al, 2015;Domingos et al, 2018;Howe et al, 2019). Especially, residents' perceptions of climate and environment change may also be affected by other factors, such as demographics, subjective feelings, and spiritual and cultural beliefs (O'Connor et al, 1999;Leiserowitz, 2006;Byg and Salick, 2009;Maria, 2015;Panno et al, 2015;Pratoomchai et al, 2015;Tindall and Piggot, 2015;Domingos et al, 2018;Hassan et al, 2018;House et al, 2018;Libarkin et al, 2018;Sun and Han, 2018). Thus, a better knowledge of the ways different socio-cultural groups perceive climate change is crucial for the effective implementation of climate polices (Tesfahunegn, 2018;Ruiz et al, 2020).…”

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Perception of indigenous people of climate change and its impact on the Everest National Nature Preserve

Wang

2021

Meteorological Applications

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Using interviews and surveys of 212 households in villages situated at different elevations in the Everest National Nature Preserve (ENNP), correlations and comparative analyses were employed to reveal the residents' perceptions and understanding of climate change and its effects on the ENNP. Results showed that: (1) nearly all residents thought that climate warming and ice-snow landscape decrease were very significant, but there was an obvious difference between the residents' cognition and observations to the change of runoff; (2) higher altitude is, more obvious warming is, and stronger residents' perception of climate change and its impacts is in the ENNP, for which educational level and age were the main factors affecting their degree of perception; (3) especially, higher altitude is, more frequent the tourism participation of residents is and higher their income is; and (4) because of the weak self-discipline of residents, a large number of tourists and spatially scattered tourism activities, the centralized pollutant treatment facilities have a low efficiency and the potential risk of environmental pollution has been increasing in recent years. At present there is an urgent need for policy suggestions at the strategic level of national ecological security and interregional equity principles concerning the adaptation to climate and environmental changes in the ENNP.

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Understanding Climate Change Adaptation: The Role of Citizens’ Perceptions and Appraisals About Extreme Weather Events

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Striving for crisis resolution or crisis resilience? The crisis layers and thresholds model and Information and Communication Technology‐mediated social sensing for evidence‐based crisis management and communication

Striving for crisis resolution or crisis resilience? The crisis layers and thresholds model and Information and Communication Technology‐mediated social sensing for evidence‐based crisis management and communication

Telluric and Climate-Related Risk Awareness, and Risk Mitigation Strategies in the Azores Archipelago: First Steps for Building Societal Resilience

Perception of indigenous people of climate change and its impact on the Everest National Nature Preserve

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