Re-thinking climate change adaptation and capacities at the household scale
Re-thinking climate change adaptation and capacities at the household scale
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重新思考家庭层面的气候变化适应和能力
作者：
Stephanie Toole;Natascha Klocker;L. Head
人为气候变化的现实使得各种规模的适应性反应势在必行。家庭越来越受到关注，但发展中国家的家庭比发达国家更受关注，因为发达国家的脆弱性较小，适应能力较强。对这种假设的批评以及许多适应研究的定量、宏观尺度的焦点正在出现。作为复杂的社会组合，相对富裕的家庭如何适应其日常运作中遇到的气候变化影响仍不清楚。然而，发达国家有大量关于家庭环境可持续性的研究。该研究对适应气候变化具有重大意义。本文将家庭环境可持续性研究与气候变化适应文献进行了富有成效的对话。前者表明，可持续性问题是通过家庭内部的社会关系和日常生活的需求来体现的。这对如何重新构建适应有三个影响。首先，气候变化不仅仅通过气候刺激和极端天气事件来实现。它将与日常生活的复杂性交织在一起。其次，了解气候变化并不是家庭适应能力的先决条件。第三，家庭规模的分析表明，假设的能力和脆弱性最终可能与宏观层面的想象或测量有很大不同。这些见解引发人们思考如何更好地支持住户的适应能力。
The reality of anthropogenic climate change has rendered adaptive responses at all scales an imperative. Households are an increasing focus of attention, but more in the developing world than the developed world, because of the presumed lesser vulnerabilities and stronger adaptive capacities of the latter. Critiques of such presumptions, and the quantitative, macro-scale focus of much adaptation research are emergent. How relatively affluent households, as complex social assemblages, may adapt to climate change impacts encountered in their day-to-day functioning remains unclear. There is, however, a sizeable body of research on household environmental sustainability in the developed world. That research has significant implications for climate change adaptation. This paper brings household environmental sustainability research into productive conversation with the climate change adaptation literature. The former shows that sustainability issues are refracted through social relations within households, and the demands of everyday life. This has three implications for how adaptation needs to be re-framed. First, climate change will not be experienced only via climatic stimuli and extreme weather events. It will be entwined in the complexity of everyday life. Second, knowledge of climate change is not a prerequisite for household adaptive capacity. Third, household-scale analyses show that assumed capacities and vulnerabilities may end up being quite different to those imagined or measured at a macro-scale. These insights invite consideration of how householders’ adaptive capacities can be better supported.
影响因子：
30.7
作者：
Spence, A.;Poortinga, W.;Pidgeon, N. F.
通讯作者：
Pidgeon, N. F.