The Cultural Theory of Risk for Climate Change Adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22331920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shannon M McNeeley (Colorado State University), Heather Lazrus (0000-0002-1970-6228, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 506-519 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Weather, Climate, and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-8327 • E-ISSN: 1948-8335 |
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1175/wcas-d-13-00027.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2151224866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 46 |
The way in which people perceive climate change risk is informed by their social interactions and cultural worldviews comprising fundamental beliefs about society and nature. Therefore, perceptions of climate change risk and vulnerability along with people’s “myths of nature”—that is, how groups of people conceptualize the way nature functions—influence the feasibility and acceptability of climate adaptation planning, policy making, and implementation. This study presents analyses of cultural worldviews that broaden the current treatments of culture and climate change mitigation and adaptation decision making in communities. The authors use insights from community-based climate research and engage the Cultural Theory of Risk conceptual framework to situate community understandings of, and responses to, climate impacts. This study looks at how the issue of climate change manifests socially in four cases in the United States and Tuvalu and how ideas about climate change are produced by the institutional cultural contexts across scales from the local to the global. This approach helps us identify local and regional priorities and support the development of new relationships for adaptation research and planning by helping to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation, assist improved communication through framing/reframing climate issues based on shared understandings and collective learning, and help move from conflict to cooperation through better negotiation of diverse worldviews
Climate change · Cognitive reframing · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Negotiation · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Psychology · Social Psychology
Worldview-Specific Policy Stories in Participatory Climate Adaptation Processes
Comparing perceived effects of climate-related environmental change and adaptation strategies for the Pacific small island states of Tuvalu, Samoa, and Tonga
“Drought is a Relative Term
Cultural Theory's Contributions to Risk Analysis
Epistemic justice in climate adaptation
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Assessing the Operationalization of Cultural Theory through Surveys Investigating the Social Aspects of Climate Change Policy Making
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Doing the right thing
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Social risk perceptions of climate change
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Exploring smallholders’ cultural beliefs and their implication for adaptation to climate change in North-Western Nigeria
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Prioritizing the culture metric for transformative ocean management in South Africa
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Impact of cultural beliefs on smallholders’ response to climate change
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Determinants of smallholder farmers’ adaptation to the effects of climate extremes
Perception of climate change in Bangladesh
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Climate Change
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Village journey
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Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation
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Human adaptation to climatic variability and change
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Defeating Kyoto
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Measuring Culture
Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies
Placing Archaeology at the Center of Socio-Natural Studies
Sea Change
| Unique citing works | 52 |
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| Citations per year | 4,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |