When concern is not enough: Overcoming the climate awareness-action gap

IF 5.8 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

Ambio Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI:10.1007/s13280-024-01999-5

Gail Hochachka

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Climate concern is on the rise in many countries and recent research finds that lifestyle- and behaviour-change could advance climate action; yet, individuals struggle to move their climate concern into action. This is known as the ‘awareness-action inconsistency,’ ‘psychological climate paradox,’ or ‘values-action gap.’ While this gap has been extensively studied, climate action implementation and policy-design seldom sufficiently apply that body of knowledge in practice. This Perspective presents a comprehensive heuristic to account for how individuals bring climate change into their awareness (climate action-logics), how they keep climate change out of their awareness (climate shadow), how social narratives contribute to shaping choices (climate discourses), and how systems and structures influence and constrain agency (climate-action systems). The heuristic is illustrated with an example of 15-Minute Cities in Canada. Understanding the multifaceted dilemma that weighs on people’s sense-making and behaviours may help policy-makers and practitioners to ameliorate the climate awareness-action gap.

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当关注还不够时：克服气候意识与行动之间的差距。

最近的研究发现，改变生活方式和行为可以推动气候行动；然而，个人却很难将对气候的关注转化为行动。这就是所谓的 "认识-行动不一致"、"心理气候悖论 "或 "价值观-行动差距"。虽然人们对这一差距进行了广泛研究，但气候行动的实施和政策设计却很少在实践中充分应用这些知识。本视角提出了一个全面的启发式方法，以解释个人如何将气候变化纳入自己的意识（气候行动逻辑），如何使气候变化远离自己的意识（气候阴影），社会叙事如何有助于形成选择（气候话语），以及系统和结构如何影响和制约机构（气候行动系统）。我们以加拿大的 "15 分钟城市 "为例，对启发式方法进行了说明。了解影响人们意识形成和行为的多方面困境有助于政策制定者和实践者改善气候意识与行动之间的差距。

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Ambio 环境科学-工程：环境

CiteScore

14.30

自引率

3.10%

发文量

123

审稿时长

6 months

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