Community-Centered Climate Planning: Using Local Knowledge and Communication Frames to Catalyze Climate Planning in Texas
Community-Centered Climate Planning: Using Local Knowledge and Communication Frames to Catalyze Climate Planning in Texas
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以社区为中心的气候规划：利用当地知识和沟通框架来促进德克萨斯州的气候规划
DOI：
10.1080/01944363.2021.1896974
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
Lieberknecht, Katherine
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作者：
Lieberknecht, Katherine
问题、研究策略和发现世界各地已经经历了与气候变化有关的天气事件、经济中断和健康影响的重大损害，而贫困、种族隔离和不公平的基础设施又加剧了这些损害。不幸的是，德克萨斯州为这些力量提供了一个完美的例证，由于缺乏气候规划，其影响变得更加严重。鉴于国家领导人不愿进行气候规划，规划者如何将危害最小化、降低风险？一个出发点是调查居民对气候变化的看法，了解他们是否和该州一样反对气候变化，然后利用这些信息来制定应对计划。在这项研究中，我分析了一项调查（n= 1053），并提出了以下问题：德克萨斯人对气候变化的看法是什么？规划者如何利用这些知识制定策略来促进气候规划？受访者强烈认同气候变化的负面影响和极端天气频率的增加。他们认为，气候变化至少部分是由人类活动造成的，他们对与气候有关的规划活动表示强烈支持。这些回应与政府的做法截然不同。然而，尽管受访者对气候问题的看法一致，但他们并未将气候变化视为未来的主要担忧。这种对比表明，新的气候相关沟通框架有机会弥合气候认知与规划行动之间的差距。这些发现提供了三条建议：更好地将气候变化影响与日常问题联系起来，包括住房、空气质量和健康；强调关于大自然提供的好处，特别是与健康有关的好处的共同立场；并利用社区参与来完善这些框架。我建议，规划者可以效仿其他强调气候危机对人类健康影响的学科，加快气候规划。此外，规划人员可以通过将环境规划对当地知识的利用从环境健康、城市供热规划和与气候有关的土地利用规划扩展到更广泛的气候规划，从而加强气候规划。
Problem, research strategy, and findingsPlaces around the world already experience significant damage from climate change–related weather events, economic disruption, and health impacts, exacerbated by poverty, segregation, and inequitable infrastructure. Unfortunately, Texas provides a perfect illustration of these forces, with impacts made even more severe by a lack of climate planning. How can planners minimize harm and reduce risk, given the state leadership’s unwillingness to undertake climate planning? One place to start is to investigate residents’ climate change beliefs to understand whether they share the state’s climate antagonism and then use this information to shape a planning response. In this study, I analyzed a survey (n= 1,053) to ask: What are Texans’ perceptions of climate change, and how can planners use this knowledge to create strategies to catalyze climate planning? Respondents expressed strong agreement about negative effects of climate change and increased frequency of extreme weather. They believed that climate change is due at least in part to human activity, and they expressed robust support for climate-related planning activities. These responses sharply differ from the state’s approach. However, despite agreement about climate issues, respondents did not identify climate change as a major concern about the future. This contrast suggests an opportunity for new climate-related communication frames to bridge the gap between climate perceptions and planning action.Takeaway for practiceThese findings inform three recommendations: better connect climate change impacts to everyday concerns, including housing, air quality, and health; emphasize common ground about benefits provided by nature, especially related to health; and use community engagement to refine these frames. I propose that planners can accelerate climate planning by following the lead of other disciplines that emphasize human health impacts of the climate crisis. In addition, planners can strengthen climate planning by extending environmental planning’s use of local knowledge from environmental health, urban heat planning, and climate-related land use planning to climate planning more broadly.