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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/aaf07a
	Who is responsible for climate change adaptation?
	Reckien D.; Petkova E.P.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:1
英文摘要	The mixture of socio-economic classes, ethnicities, and cultures that characterizes many cosmopolitan urban areas can contribute to unequally perceived impacts of extreme weather events and, hence, need and responsibility for adaptation. Awareness of these differences is, as we argue, decisive for effective adaptation. This study explores the relationship between person-specific, socio-economic characteristics that are frequently associated with social vulnerability and the perception of current affectedness by extreme weather events, future impact severity as well as adaptation need and adaptation responsibility. We use a large online questionnaire survey from New York City studying two extreme weather events, heatwaves and heavy rainstorms. We find that previous harm is the most important factor across all tested models for both weather events. However, previous harm and affectedness do not well explain the perception of future impacts, whereas they correspond to views about adaptation responsibility; respondents who felt significantly more affected in the past perceive the community to be in charge of adaptation. Women (during both weather events) and the elderly (during heatwaves) state largest affectedness during past events, and see the community as being responsible for future adaptation. Hispanic and African American respondents, on the other hand, were identified to perceive adaptation to be more of an individual task - potentially related to previous experience with (a lack of) local government services in their areas. Our findings evoke equity questions, and can aid urban decision makers aiming to implement effective and just adaptation measures, targeting vulnerable socio-economic groups in New York City and potentially other cosmopolitan areas. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	adaptation responsibility; climate change adaptation; differential climate change impacts; heat waves and heavy rainstorms; New York City; perception and attitudes; social vulnerability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Decision making; Surveys; Thunderstorms; Weather information services; adaptation responsibility; Climate change adaptation; Climate change impact; Heat waves; New York city; Social vulnerability; Climate change; adaptive management; African American; climate change; climate effect; ethnicity; extreme event; heat wave; perception; public attitude; rainstorm; socioeconomic conditions; New York [New York (STT)]; New York [United States]; United States
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154717
作者单位	Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Earth Institute, Columbia University, 419 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States; Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 609 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States; University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management, PO Box 217, Enschede, 7500 AE, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Reckien D.,Petkova E.P.. Who is responsible for climate change adaptation?[J],2019,14(1).
APA	Reckien D.,&Petkova E.P..(2019).Who is responsible for climate change adaptation?.Environmental Research Letters,14(1).
MLA	Reckien D.,et al."Who is responsible for climate change adaptation?".Environmental Research Letters 14.1(2019).