Communicating Climate Change Information for Decision-Making by Silvia Serrao-Neumann Anne Coudrain & Liese Coulter

Author:Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Anne Coudrain & Liese Coulter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

7.6 Conclusion

This study highlights the importance of personal factors in climate related decision-making, even when there is a high level of climate knowledge. Significant differences were identified in how participants combined broad and semantic climate knowledge and experiential or episodic knowledge, in assessing climate risks . Perceptions of low personal vulnerability and high adaptive capacity reduced motivation to imagine climate challenges as personal. Furthermore, social and emotional barriers to talking about future climate limited developing shared goals and plans to adapt, so climate knowledge was not usually applied in a personal context. Consequently, people who did not regularly engage in future thinking in other areas of their lives had very few opportunities to incorporate climate knowledge in their plans. A greater consideration of how to foster future thinking in the context of climate change may improve the development, communication , and application of climate information for adaptation decision-making .

There are many more insights to be gained by considering the application of climate change knowledge in light of advances in cogitative research of future thinking. In addition, the study demonstrated the use of the Future Climate Narrative typology to gauge relative engagement in reflecting and sharing climate knowledge to inform visions of possible futures affected by climate change. The results make it clear that even for expert groups, personal, and social factors influence decision-making. Therefore, similar research with other national, social, and culture groups would be expected to reveal quite different results and would be useful to extend our understanding of climate-related decision-making in other contexts.

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