Global environmental change
Local Perceptions, Understandings, and Explanations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4239686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aili Pyhälä (0000-0001-7095-5994, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Álvaro Fernández‐llamazare (0000-0002-7813-0222, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Hertta Lehvävirta (University of Helsinki), Anja Byg (0000-0001-9311-9526, James Hutton Institute), Isabel Ruíz-Mallén (0000-0002-9679-3329, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Matthieu Salpeteur (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Thomas F Thornton (0000-0002-1065-5495, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-08482-210325 |
| PMID | 27695479 |
| OpenAlex | W2508080230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 112 |
Global environmental change (GEC) is an increasingly discussed phenomenon in the scientific literature as evidence of its presence and impacts continues to grow. Yet, while the documentation of GEC is becoming more readily available, local perceptions of GEC- particularly in small-scale societies-and preferences about how to deal with it, are still largely overlooked. Local knowledge and perceptions of GEC are important in that agents make decisions (including on natural resource management) based on individual perceptions. We carried out a systematic literature review that aims to provide an exhaustive state-of-the-art of the degree to and manner in which the study of local perceptions of change are being addressed in GEC research. We reviewed 126 articles found in peer-reviewed journals (between 1998 and 2014) that address local perceptions of GEC. We used three particular lenses of analysis that are known to influence local perceptions, namely (i) cognition, (ii) culture and knowledge, and (iii) possibilities for adaptation.We present our findings on the geographical distribution of the current research, the most common changes reported, perceived drivers and impacts of change, and local explanations and evaluations of change and impacts. Overall, we found the studies to be geographically biased, lacking methodological reporting, mostly theory based with little primary data, and lacking of indepth analysis of the psychological and ontological influences in perception and implications for adaptation. We provide recommendations for future GEC research and propose the development of a "meta-language" around adaptation, perception, and mediation to encourage a greater appreciation and understanding of the diversity around these phenomena across multiple scales, and improved codesign and facilitation of locally relevant adaptation and mitigation strategies
Climate change · Documentation · Environmental change · Environmental resource management · Geography · Local adaptation · Mediation · Perception · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Computer Science · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
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The relationship between personal experience and belief in the reality of global warming
Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience
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How warm days increase belief in global warming
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Dangerous climate change and the importance of adaptation for the Arctic’s Inuit population
Woody vegetation change in Sahelian West Africa
Perceptions of climate change, multiple stressors and livelihoods on marginal African coasts
Inuit economic adaptations for a changing global climate
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Local people's accounts of climate change
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Rethinking Indigenous Research Approval ‐ The Perspective of a ‘Stranger’
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Who remembers a hot summer or a cold winter? The asymmetric effect of beliefs about global warming on perceptions of local climate conditions in the U.S
Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation
A necessary voice
Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia
Changes in weather persistence
Promiscuous corroboration and climate change translation
Perception of change in freshwater in remote resource-dependent Arctic communities
Can farmers’ adaptation to climate change be explained by socio-economic household-level variables
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Riders under storms
Procedural vulnerability
Anatomy of a closing window
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Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
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Perceptions of climate risk in Mozambique
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Living on the margin
The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
Meaningful Learning for Resilience-building among Mongolian Pastoralists
Decision-making by farmers regarding ecosystem services
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The Anthropocene
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Vulnerability to climate change in Igloolik, Nunavut
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
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Between Land and Sea
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Local Perceptions of Climate Variability and Change in Tropical Forests of Papua, Indonesia
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Securing Indigenous politics
Saami reindeer pastoralism under climate change
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Vulnerability before adaptation
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Perception and Interpretation of Climate Change among Quechua Farmers of Bolivia
Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Heterogeneity in Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change
Remote Sensing and Ethnobotanical Assessment of the Mangrove Forest Changes in the Navachiste-San Ignacio-Macapule Lagoon Complex, Sinaloa, Mexico
| Unique citing works | 62 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |