气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Weather Contracts: Capturing a sense of weather for place-based adaptation to climate change

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102052
	Weather Contracts: Capturing a sense of weather for place-based adaptation to climate change
	Butts D.; Adams H.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	63
英文摘要	Place attachment, the emotional bonds that people form to significant places, influences adaptation to climate change. Within this context, weather is garnering greater attention for its dynamic, mediating role, yet its political and cultural significance remains under-researched. Here we draw on Serres and McCarren's (1992) idea of the Natural Contract and Vannini et al.’s (2012) contributions on weathering to integrate contractarianism with a deep account of people's relationship with weather in place. We analyse attitudes and adaptation to climate change in communities of the geographically-remote and climate-vulnerable Outer Hebrides in Scotland, using video-elicitation to generate data on significant places. Our results show that changing, difficult and unpredictable weather binds people to place and influences how they think about themselves, their place and adaptation in dynamic ways. Through this connection, we demonstrate that people knowingly enter into what we term Weather Contracts and that accepting the volatility of the weather allows people to react positively to changes brought with climate. Finally, we show that the common ideology of a community living with weather generates wider discourses around independence and resisting modernisation that we term a weathered ideology. Thus, climate change is not always a destabilising force. For those who are accustomed to changing weather it can be a dimension of place around which people can organise. Uncertainty and anxiety about the future of the climate is caused more by a lack of control over adaptation processes than by a fear of unknown weather. This has implications for people living at the margins across the globe, where unpredictable weather is a part of local identities, but influence on adaptation policy making is low. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Adaptation; Climate Change; People on the Margins; Place Attachment; Weather Contracts; Weathered ideology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; climate conditions; modernization; nature-society relations; policy making; Scotland; United Kingdom; Western Isles
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/142036
作者单位	Independent Researcher, 28 Woodstock Road, London, W4 1UF, United Kingdom; Department of Geography, King's College London, Bush House North East Wing, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Butts D.,Adams H.. Weather Contracts: Capturing a sense of weather for place-based adaptation to climate change[J],2020,63.
APA	Butts D.,&Adams H..(2020).Weather Contracts: Capturing a sense of weather for place-based adaptation to climate change.Global Environmental Change,63.
MLA	Butts D.,et al."Weather Contracts: Capturing a sense of weather for place-based adaptation to climate change".Global Environmental Change 63(2020).