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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.002
	Natural cycles in lay understandings of climate change
	Connor L.H.; Higginbotham N.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:6
英文摘要	This article analyses lay understandings of climate change elicited through a longitudinal population-based survey of climate change, place and community among 1162 residents in the Hunter Valley, Southeast Australia. We explore how older residents in contrasting rural and coastal geographic areas perceive climate change information in terms of culturally relevant meanings and values, lived experiences and emotional responses to seasonal cycles, temperature fluctuations and altered landscapes. Thematic analysis of comments given by 467 interviewees to an open-ended question identified a significant subset for whom the concepts of "nature" and "science" express competing views about changing climatic conditions. For them, the idea of "natural cycles" is a significant cultural construct that links nature and humans through time in a way that structures stable and resilient understandings of environmental change, drawing on established cosmological frameworks for contemplating the future in relation to the past. In contrast to other studies that postulate scepticism and denial as individuals' fear management strategies in the face of climate change threat, we found that the natural cycles view is founded on a reassuring deeper conviction about how nature works, and is linked to other pro-environmental values not commonly found in sceptical groups. It is a paradox of natural cycles thinking that it rejects the anthropocentrism that is at the heart of science-based environmentalism. By contrast, it places humans as deeply integrated with nature, rather than operating outside it and attempting with uncertain science to control something that is ultimately uncontrollable. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Australia; Climate sceptics; Longitudinal study; Public attitudes; Uncertainty; Weather
学科领域	climate change; climate conditions; environmental change; geographical region; integrated approach; landscape; nature-society relations; temperature effect; Australia; Hunter Valley; New South Wales
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; climate conditions; environmental change; geographical region; integrated approach; landscape; nature-society relations; temperature effect; Australia; Hunter Valley; New South Wales
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117874
作者单位	Department of Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia; Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Connor L.H.,Higginbotham N.. Natural cycles in lay understandings of climate change[J],2013,23(6).
APA	Connor L.H.,&Higginbotham N..(2013).Natural cycles in lay understandings of climate change.Global Environmental Change,23(6).
MLA	Connor L.H.,et al."Natural cycles in lay understandings of climate change".Global Environmental Change 23.6(2013).