Unearthing insights for climate change response in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

Hochachka, Gail

doi:10.1017/sus.2020.27

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“…Save Lives” in the UK, or the ‘3Cs’ in Japan, which referred to “Closed Spaces, Crowded Places and Close Contact,” Barnes, 2021 ). The measures that have been implemented have led to fast and wide-ranging changes for individuals and at a systemic level ( Hochachka, 2020 ), with international research showing a high percentage of people self-reporting that they have been following the coronavirus measures ( YouGov, 2021 ).…”

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Comparing coronavirus (COVID-19) and climate change perceptions: Implications for support for individual and collective-level policies

2022

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COVID-19 (coronavirus) and climate change are both global issues that have wide-reaching and serious consequences for human health, the economy, and social outcomes for populations around the world, and both require a combination of systemic governmental policies and community support for action. This paper compares people’s responses to the coronavirus pandemic and climate change in the United Kingdom (UK). A representative survey of the UK population (n = 1,518) conducted in November and December 2020 explored public perceptions of (a) personal and government responsibility, (b) efficacy and trust, and (c) support for policies to address the two issues. The results show that, while there are a number of similarities between coronavirus and climate change, major differences exist regarding individual action. In comparison to the coronavirus pandemic, people feel less personal responsibility, think that their own personal actions are less efficacious, and express lower levels of support for (in particular individual-level) policies to address climate change. These findings suggest that experiences from the coronavirus pandemic cannot directly be translated to climate change, and thus that climate change is likely to require different policy responses and framing.

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Comparing coronavirus (COVID-19) and climate change perceptions: Implications for support for individual and collective-level policies

2022

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“…COVID-19 caused a large-scale systemic disruption with the potential to effect long-term transformation. Businesses went out of operations or went online, governments reallocated resources, hospitals implemented emergency measures, and the majority of people changed their behavior by using virtual learning platforms (Hochachka, 2020).…”

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Review: Climate change resilience disconnect in rural communities in coastal Kenya. A rhetoric communication discord proliferated by COVID-19 pandemic

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Gikonyo²,

Gathuku³

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The world has been hit by consequential pandemics in the past two millennia. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken center stage, paralyzing vulnerable communities in the global south impacted by unprecedented climate vagaries. The focus of this study is COVID-19 and climate resilience communication rhetoric. In this context, we embed this study in response to the resilience of rural livelihoods to the COVID-19 crisis and climate resilience education communication rhetoric. We posit our review based on the following questions: Has COVID-19 worsened the climate resilience pathway for rural communities in coastal Kenya? Is the COVID-19 pandemic a proxy for climate resilience in rural livelihoods? How does COVID-19 communication rhetoric undermine climate resilience for vulnerable coastal communities in Kenya? Through a resilient theoretical paradigm, we enclose our view based on the existing literature along with climate resilience and COVID-19 proliferation. In light of the current state of COVID-19, the focus has shifted to the pandemic that will cover climate resilience. From the review, climate resilience pathway has been impacted by corona virus with noted funding response variations, in addition, even with the corona virus pandemic, climate resilience communication should be on-going rather than sporadic. Increasing the discursive process about climate change challenges is critical among Kenyan coastal communities. We recommend inclusion of climate resilience communication in existing policy frameworks as a salient solution to notable information discourse bottlenecks.

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“…It is commonly argued in science and practice that the perceived psychological distance of climate change reduces people's sense of urgency to act to reduce climate change. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] Building on this assumption, it has been recommended that policymakers should focus on making the consequences of climate change feel psychologically closer to people. [5][6][7]9,11,15,[17][18][19] While the idea of psychological distance seems intuitive, the idea has also been criticized, both on theoretical and empirical grounds.…”

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The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated

2023

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Unearthing insights for climate change response in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 13 publications

References 41 publications

Comparing coronavirus (COVID-19) and climate change perceptions: Implications for support for individual and collective-level policies

Comparing coronavirus (COVID-19) and climate change perceptions: Implications for support for individual and collective-level policies

Review: Climate change resilience disconnect in rural communities in coastal Kenya. A rhetoric communication discord proliferated by COVID-19 pandemic

The psychological distance of climate change is overestimated

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