Irene Lorenzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 194419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Lorenzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorenzoni |
| SIGNATURE | LORENZONI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8226-5755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 817 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys
Climate change is a significant site of political contestation, with public opinion frequently invoked to support claims for more (or less) action. Yet, ‘climate change public opinion’ is an umbrella term encompassing many different components. Empirical research has recently burgeoned, but an up-to-date and globally comprehensive guide to navigating the interconnected concepts currently measured is still lacking. In this review, we develop an or…
Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature
Politicians' engagement with climate change is the focus of an emerging literature, but this research has not been subjected to systematic analysis. To address this important gap, we perform a systematic review of 141 articles on politicians and climate change published between 1985 and 2021. We find a growing research area; almost half of the articles were published after 2018. Existing research is fragmented and focused on a small number of dem…
Measuring climate mitigation policy content in text-as-data: Navigating the conceptual challenges
A burgeoning comparative politics literature investigates the role of key political actors, such as political parties and members of parliament, in the global challenge of tackling climate change. While text-based indicators of political behaviour, such as parliamentary speeches, questions or social media, provide abundant sources of data for comparative research, much remains to be learned from the rigorous large-scale quantitative analysis of p…
Challenges to anticipatory coastal adaptation for transformative nature-based solutions
Much of England’s coastline is underprepared for adapting to long-term coastal change, with many coastal areas moving from ‘hold the line’ to managed realignment as this century progresses. This paper offers a unique case study of a frontage experiencing this transition. It explores the perspectives of Bacton and Walcott residents and coastal policymakers on managing the risk of coastal change for the Bacton-Walcott frontage on the Norfolk coast …
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC
Advising national climate policy makers: A longitudinal analysis of the UK Climate Change Committee
Despite the recent proliferation of national climate change advisory bodies, very little is known about what advice they provide, to whom, and when. To address these gaps in the literature, this article systematically analyses all 700 of the recommendations made by the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) in the period 2009–20. The CCC is one of the oldest climate change advisory bodies of its kind in the world and its design has been widely emulate…
Transformations for climate change mitigation: A systematic review of terminology, concepts, and characteristics
Deep, broad, and rapid society‐wide changes are urgently required to limit global temperature rise in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Since 2005, academics and policy makers have increasingly referred to such changes as transformations . This recent uptake and rapid diffusion of transformation‐related concepts in research on climate change mitigation calls for a systematic and up‐to‐date analysis. In this article, we address this gap …
Bringing greenhouse gas removal down to earth: Stakeholder supply chain appraisals reveal complex challenges
Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) approaches are considered essential in several projections to meet the climate mitigation ambition of the Paris Agreement. Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and afforestation are included extensively in mitigation scenarios but there are concerns about the feasibility of these approaches. This was explored with stakeholders from industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policy who were i…
Commentary: Progress in understanding and overcoming barriers to public engagement with climate change
Contested framings of greenhouse gas removal and its feasibility: Social and political dimensions
Prospective approaches for large‐scale greenhouse gas removal (GGR) are now central to the post‐2020 international commitment to pursue efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C. However, the feasibility of large‐scale GGR has been repeatedly questioned. Most systematic analyses focus only on the physical, technical, and economic challenges of deploying it at scale. However, social and political dimensions will be just as importan…
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments
Greenhouse gas removal technologies and practices are essential to bring emissions to net zero and limit global warming to 1.5 °C. To achieve this, the majority of integrated assessment models (IAMs), that generate future emissions scenarios and inform the international policy process, use large-scale afforestation and biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). The feasibility of these technologies and practices has only so far been …
Place attachment, disruption and transformative adaptation
This paper explores place disruption, where transformative adaptation was proposed for flood risk management, by examining: a) the relationships between place attachment, place-related symbolic meanings, place-protective interpretative responses and attitudinal responses, and b) evaluation of governance processes. Questionnaires were administered to residents in Clontarf, County Dublin, Ireland in 2014 (n = 280) in the aftermath of community resi…
Theoretical Theatre: Harnessing the power of comedy to teach social science theory
Role playing is increasingly used in European Studies and political science more generally to foster students understanding of social science theories. Yet in most cases, role playing is only done by students. Not so in Theoretical Theatre, a teaching innovation which puts the onus on teachers to act. In our performances, teachers embody competing theories and enact dramatic scenarios in front, and in collaboration with, their student audience. T…
Sharing the Pain: Perceptions of Fairness Affect Private and Public Response to Hazards
Structural causes of vulnerability to hazards are well established in geographical research. But what facilitates individual adaptive behavior? How does the performance of government intervention affect such behavior? Drawing on political economy, environmental psychology, and climate justice perspectives, we explore how perceived fairness of responses to weather-related extreme events affects the public and private distribution of responsibility…
Evaluating social learning in England flood risk management: An ‘individual-community interaction’ perspective
The (Mis)understanding of Scientific Uncertainty? How Experts View Policy-Makers, the Media and Publics
Frequent claims that publics ‘misunderstand’ science ignore the contested definition of scientific uncertainty itself. Scientific uncertainty means different things in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, while public controversies show that interpretations of scientific uncertainty have different implications for policy and decision-making. This prompts analysis of the ways that experts view scientific uncertainty and how th…
Radical institutional change in environmental governance: Explaining the origins of the UK Climate Change Act 2008 through discursive and streams perspectives
Public engagement with marine climate change issues: (Re)framings, understandings and responses
Examining the Scope for National Lesson‐drawing on Climate Governance
The need to understand the scope for comparative lesson‐drawing on national‐level climate mitigation policy has acquired added significance due to the current impasse in international‐level governance. Greater policy learning or lesson‐drawing among peers at the national level could, to an extent, foster meaningful developments by overcoming generalised international apathy and inaction. In this respect, we analyse the features of one significant…
Public engagement with climate change: What do we know and where do we go from here
Climate change is an issue with fundamental implications for societies and individuals. These implications range from our everyday choices about resource use and lifestyles, through how we adjust to an unprecedented rate of environmental change, to our role in debating and enacting accompanying social transitions. This article outlines the various ways in which members of society (‘publics’) may be engaged in efforts to mitigate and adapt to clim…
Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Behaviour Change and Communication
Where Now for Post-Normal Science: A Critical Review of its Development, Definitions, and Uses
‘‘Post-normal science’’ (PNS) has received much attention in recent years, but like many iconic concepts, it has attracted differing conceptualizations, applications, and implications, ranging from being a ‘‘cure-all’’ for democratic deficit to the key to achieving more sustainable futures. This editorial article introduces a Special Issue that takes stock of research on PNS and critically explores how such research may develop. Through reviewing…
Climate Change or Social Change? Debate within, amongst, and beyond Disciplines
There is no abstract for this paper
Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Communication and Behaviour Change
Perceptions, behavior and communication of climate change
This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change
Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications
Social capital, individual responses to heat waves and climate change adaptation: An empirical study of two UK cities
Climate change or nuclear power—No thanks! A quantitative study of public perceptions and risk framing in Britain
Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate
Cross‐National Comparisons of Image Associations with “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” Among Laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain1
Climate change poses significant risks to societies worldwide, yet governmental responses differ greatly on either side of the North Atlantic. Risk perception studies have shown that citizens in the United States and Great Britain have similar risk perceptions of climate change: it is considered a distant threat, of limited personal importance. Engaging the public on this issue is thus challenging. Affect, the positive or negative evaluation of a…
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Sharing the Pain: Perceptions of Fairness Affect Private and Public Response to Hazards
Structural causes of vulnerability to hazards are well established in geographical research. But what facilitates individual adaptive behavior? How does the performance of government intervention affect such behavior? Drawing on political economy, environmental psychology, and climate justice perspectives, we explore how perceived fairness of responses to weather-related extreme events affects the public and private distribution of responsibility…
A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment: Part I. Integrating socio-economic and climate change scenarios
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments
Greenhouse gas removal technologies and practices are essential to bring emissions to net zero and limit global warming to 1.5 °C. To achieve this, the majority of integrated assessment models (IAMs), that generate future emissions scenarios and inform the international policy process, use large-scale afforestation and biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). The feasibility of these technologies and practices has only so far been …
Public engagement with climate change: What do we know and where do we go from here
Climate change is an issue with fundamental implications for societies and individuals. These implications range from our everyday choices about resource use and lifestyles, through how we adjust to an unprecedented rate of environmental change, to our role in debating and enacting accompanying social transitions. This article outlines the various ways in which members of society (‘publics’) may be engaged in efforts to mitigate and adapt to clim…
Coastal Management for Sustainable Development: Analysing Environmental and Socio-Economic Changes on the UK Coast
Littoral areas of the British Isles present an array of properties and features which have long been exploited by human populations and have contributed to the wealth and the quality of life of the nation. Past and ongoing differentiation in uses of coastal zones has led to conflicts ranging from deleterious effects on supporting ecosystems to symbiosis with human activities. This paper aims to elicit the main forces influencing the development o…
Energy security’ and ‘climate change’: Constructing UK energy discursive realities
Noisy and definitely not normal: Responding to wicked issues in the environment, energy and health
Radical institutional change in environmental governance: Explaining the origins of the UK Climate Change Act 2008 through discursive and streams perspectives
Climate Change or Social Change? Debate within, amongst, and beyond Disciplines
There is no abstract for this paper
Evaluating social learning in England flood risk management: An ‘individual-community interaction’ perspective
Locating Scientific Citizenship: The Institutional Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the UK's Royal Society, but set this case within the wider experience of the public engagement activities of a range of charities, corporations, governmental departments, and scientific institutions. The novelty of the analysis lies in the linking of an acc…
Contested framings of greenhouse gas removal and its feasibility: Social and political dimensions
Prospective approaches for large‐scale greenhouse gas removal (GGR) are now central to the post‐2020 international commitment to pursue efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C. However, the feasibility of large‐scale GGR has been repeatedly questioned. Most systematic analyses focus only on the physical, technical, and economic challenges of deploying it at scale. However, social and political dimensions will be just as importan…
The (Mis)understanding of Scientific Uncertainty? How Experts View Policy-Makers, the Media and Publics
Frequent claims that publics ‘misunderstand’ science ignore the contested definition of scientific uncertainty itself. Scientific uncertainty means different things in the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, while public controversies show that interpretations of scientific uncertainty have different implications for policy and decision-making. This prompts analysis of the ways that experts view scientific uncertainty and how th…
Public engagement with marine climate change issues: (Re)framings, understandings and responses
Danger is all around: Eliciting expert perceptions for managing climate change through a mental models approach
Is There Now a Political Climate for Policy Change? Policy and Politics after the Stern Review
Climate change is fuelling a significant renaissance in the national environmental movement in the UK. The broad aim of this article is better to understand the extent to which the 2006 Stern Review on climate change marked a decisive turning point in the battle against climate change or just another missed opportunity. Labelled as the most comprehensive review of the economics of climate change ever produced, the Stern Review was commissioned by…
A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment — Part II: A scenario-based case study in East Anglia (UK)
Bringing greenhouse gas removal down to earth: Stakeholder supply chain appraisals reveal complex challenges
Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) approaches are considered essential in several projections to meet the climate mitigation ambition of the Paris Agreement. Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and afforestation are included extensively in mitigation scenarios but there are concerns about the feasibility of these approaches. This was explored with stakeholders from industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policy who were i…
Examining the Scope for National Lesson‐drawing on Climate Governance
The need to understand the scope for comparative lesson‐drawing on national‐level climate mitigation policy has acquired added significance due to the current impasse in international‐level governance. Greater policy learning or lesson‐drawing among peers at the national level could, to an extent, foster meaningful developments by overcoming generalised international apathy and inaction. In this respect, we analyse the features of one significant…
Coastal Management for Sustainable Development: Analysing Environmental and Socio-Economic Changes on the UK Coast
Littoral areas of the British Isles present an array of properties and features which have long been exploited by human populations and have contributed to the wealth and the quality of life of the nation. Past and ongoing differentiation in uses of coastal zones has led to conflicts ranging from deleterious effects on supporting ecosystems to symbiosis with human activities. This paper aims to elicit the main forces influencing the development o…
Identifying social attitudes to assist urban energy planning in Leicester
A study of social attitudes to urban energy management strategies has been undertaken as part of a research project aiming to develop an energy planning tool for urban planners. The study used a social survey to predict attitudinal responses to proposed engineering solutions, namely load management, energy efficiency and alternative supply options (renewable energy). The principal influence on attitude formation, which emerges from the literature…
A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment — Part II: A scenario-based case study in East Anglia (UK)
A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment: Part I. Integrating socio-economic and climate change scenarios
Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance
Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of gov…
Cross‐National Comparisons of Image Associations with “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” Among Laypeople in the United States of America and Great Britain1
Climate change poses significant risks to societies worldwide, yet governmental responses differ greatly on either side of the North Atlantic. Risk perception studies have shown that citizens in the United States and Great Britain have similar risk perceptions of climate change: it is considered a distant threat, of limited personal importance. Engaging the public on this issue is thus challenging. Affect, the positive or negative evaluation of a…
Danger is all around: Eliciting expert perceptions for managing climate change through a mental models approach
Climate change or nuclear power—No thanks! A quantitative study of public perceptions and risk framing in Britain
Is There Now a Political Climate for Policy Change? Policy and Politics after the Stern Review
Climate change is fuelling a significant renaissance in the national environmental movement in the UK. The broad aim of this article is better to understand the extent to which the 2006 Stern Review on climate change marked a decisive turning point in the battle against climate change or just another missed opportunity. Labelled as the most comprehensive review of the economics of climate change ever produced, the Stern Review was commissioned by…
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications
Perceptions of heatwave risks to health: Interview-based study of older people in London and Norwich, UK
BACKGROUND: Most projections of climate change suggest an increased frequency of heatwaves in England over coming decades; older people are at particular risk. This could result in substantial mortality and morbidity. OBJECTIVE: To determine elderly people's knowledge and perceptions of heat-related risks to health, and of protective behaviours. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews: 73 men and women, 72-94 years, living in their own homes in Londo…
Reframing nuclear power in the UK energy debate: Nuclear power, climate change mitigation and radioactive waste
In the past decade, human influence on the climate through increased use of fossil fuels has become widely acknowledged as one of the most pressing issues for the global community. For the United Kingdom, we suggest that these concerns have increasingly become manifest in a new strand of political debate around energy policy, which reframes nuclear power as part of the solution to the need for low-carbon energy options. A mixed-methods analysis o…
It's Demand, Stupid’: The Failure and Future of Integrating Climate Change Concerns into UK Transport Policy
Unstable climates: Exploring the statistical and social constructions of ‘normal’ climate
Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?
Believing is seeing: Laypeople's views of future socio-economic and climate change in England and in Italy
Cross-cultural studies are particularly relevant in the context of climate change, given its pervasive character and the growing demand for climate change mitigation at both global and local levels. This paper reports on findings from comparative cross-cultural mixed-methods research eliciting perceptions of the future among citizens in Norwich (UK) and Rome (Italy). The paper explores how individuals at the two locations interpret socio-economic…
Noisy and definitely not normal: Responding to wicked issues in the environment, energy and health
Social capital, individual responses to heat waves and climate change adaptation: An empirical study of two UK cities
Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Communication and Behaviour Change
Perceptions, behavior and communication of climate change
This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Perceptions of Climate Change
Energy security’ and ‘climate change’: Constructing UK energy discursive realities
Heat Waves and Cold Spells: An Analysis of Policy Response and Perceptions of Vulnerable Populations in the UK
Heat waves and cold spells pose ongoing seasonal risks to the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals. Current attempts to address these risks in the UK are implemented through fuel-poverty strategies and heat-wave planning. This paper examines evidence from the UK on whether heat waves and cold spells are addressed differently by public policy in the UK given that risks are mediated by similar perceptions that shape behavioural responses…
Locating Scientific Citizenship: The Institutional Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the UK's Royal Society, but set this case within the wider experience of the public engagement activities of a range of charities, corporations, governmental departments, and scientific institutions. The novelty of the analysis lies in the linking of an acc…
Where Now for Post-Normal Science: A Critical Review of its Development, Definitions, and Uses
‘‘Post-normal science’’ (PNS) has received much attention in recent years, but like many iconic concepts, it has attracted differing conceptualizations, applications, and implications, ranging from being a ‘‘cure-all’’ for democratic deficit to the key to achieving more sustainable futures. This editorial article introduces a Special Issue that takes stock of research on PNS and critically explores how such research may develop. Through reviewing…
Political science (35 works) · Climate change (31 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (23 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (19 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Environmental resource management (17 works) · Geography (17 works)