DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1646-9
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84960112680
论文题名: Spirituality and attitudes towards Nature in the Pacific Islands: insights for enabling climate-change adaptation
作者: Nunn P.D. ; Mulgrew K. ; Scott-Parker B. ; Hine D.W. ; Marks A.D.G. ; Mahar D. ; Maebuta J.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2016
卷: 136, 期: 2018-03-04 起始页码: 477
结束页码: 493
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Decision making
; Adaptation to climate changes
; Climate change adaptation
; Decision makers
; Environmental conservation
; Environmental risks
; Optimism bias
; Pacific islands
; Tertiary institutions
; Climate change
; climate change
; decision making
; environmental risk
; environmental stress
; student
; vulnerability
; Pacific islands
; Pacific Ocean
; Pacific Ocean (South)
英文摘要: A sample of 1226 students at the University of the South Pacific, the premier tertiary institution in the Pacific Islands, answered a range of questions intended to understand future island decision-makers’ attitudes towards Nature and concern about climate change. Questions asking about church attendance show that the vast majority of participants have spiritual values that explain their feelings of connectedness to Nature which in turn may account for high levels of pessimism about the current state of the global/Pacific environment. Concern about climate change as a future livelihood stressor in the Pacific region is ubiquitous at both societal and personal levels. While participants exhibited a degree of understanding matching objective rankings about the vulnerability of their home islands/countries, a spatial optimism bias was evident in which ‘other places’ were invariably regarded as ‘worse’. Through their views on climate change concern, respondents also favoured a psychological distancing of environmental risk in which ‘other places’ were perceived as more exposed than familiar ones. Influence from spirituality is implicated in both findings. Most interventions intended to reduce exposure to environmental risk and to enable effective and sustainable adaptation to climate change in the Pacific Islands region have failed to acknowledge influences on decisionmaking of spirituality and connectedness to Nature. Messages that stress environmental conservation and stewardship, particularly if communicated within familiar and respected religious contexts, are likely to be more successful than secular ones. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84293
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia; University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia; University of the South Pacific, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Recommended Citation:
Nunn P.D.,Mulgrew K.,Scott-Parker B.,et al. Spirituality and attitudes towards Nature in the Pacific Islands: insights for enabling climate-change adaptation[J]. Climatic Change,2016-01-01,136(2018-03-04)