Public perception of climate change impacts and sectoral adaptation in Romania

IF 5.3 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101346

Monica Dumitraşcu , Irena Roznoviețchi , Mihaela Sima , Ines Grigorescu , Bianca Mitrică , Dana Micu , Vlăduț Fălcescu , Ana Bulai , Sorin Cheval

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Public perception of climate change plays a crucial role in adaptation efforts, shaping both individual actions towards environmentally responsible behavior and support for public policies. This study examines public attitudes on climate change across key sectors in Romanian, in the post-COVID-19 pandemic context to inform adaptation measures. As part of the revision of the National Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, a nationwide survey was conducted to assess public perceptions of climate change and related adaptation measures. Using a structured questionnaire, responses were analysed and clustered for priority sectors, considered most vulnerable to the climate change impacts (e.g., Agriculture, Energy, Transport, Forestry, Tourism). Findings highlighted agriculture, water resources, and public health as the most vulnerable, and pointed out to targeted measures such as energy efficiency, sustainable resource management, healthcare improvements and infrastructure modernization. The results also revealed socio-demographic patterns, such as lower awareness among younger, middle to lower income groups and a stronger connection between parental status and environmentally responsible behaviours.

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Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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8.40

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期刊介绍： Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action. Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers. All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.