Public understanding of, and attitudes to, climate change: UK and international perspectives and policy
Public understanding of, and attitudes to, climate change: UK and international perspectives and policy
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DOI：
10.1080/14693062.2012.702982
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
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7.1
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Pidgeon, Nick
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作者：
Pidgeon, Nick
尽管在过去20年里，许多国家对气候变化的关注和认识水平不断提高，但相对于其他全球或个人问题，气候变化的重要性仍然很低。强大的背景障碍阻止公众参与其中，例如心理距离和外部责任。尽管自2006年以来媒体对这一问题进行了广泛报道，但在2006年至2010年期间，公众的关注逐渐减少。可能的解释是问题疲劳、全球金融危机的影响、不信任以及问题政治化的加深。风险和不确定性将成为未来气候变化政策辩论的一部分。虽然公众和决策者的参与需要借鉴在风险沟通方面已经制定的最佳指导，但也可能需要彻底重新定义公共辩论的术语和“风险沟通”的新方法。实现雄心勃勃的气候减缓和适应目标的最大风险似乎是当前国家和国际治理体系所产生的“治理陷阱”，例如公众和政府都试图将煽动变革的责任归咎于对方。
Although levels of concern and awareness about climate change have been rising in many nations over the past 20 years, climate change remains of low importance relative to other global or personal issues. Powerful contextual barriers act to prevent public engagement with it, such as psychological distancing and externalized responsibility. Despite extensive media coverage of the issue since 2006 there was a gradual decrease in public concern between 2006 and 2010. Possible explanations are issue fatigue, the impact of the global financial crisis, distrust, and the deepening politicization of the issue. Risk and uncertainty will become part of the debate about climate change policy in the future. Although engaging both the public and decision makers needs to draw upon the best guidance already developed in communicating risk, it is also likely that a radical reframing of the terms of public debate and new approaches to 'risk communication' will be needed. The most significant risk to achieving ambitious climate mitigation and adaptation goals appears to be the 'governance trap' engendered by current national and international systems of governance, such that the public and governments each seek to attribute responsibility for instigating change to the other.