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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.12.007
	Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct
	Clifford K.R.; Travis W.R.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	0959-3780
起始页码	1
结束页码	9
卷号	49
英文摘要	Climate perception, broadly construed, can include interpretations of experienced climate, beliefs about how climate works or changes, attitudes about climate issues such as the human role in climate change, and even climate preferences. The recent literature has stressed three main themes: attitudes and beliefs about anthropogenic climate change, climate literacy, and experienced knowledge of climate change. This study focuses on how people come to “know” climate, not just climate change, in a more fundamental way. To discern the structure of these knowledges we conducted semi-structured interviews of residents of a basin in the U.S. Rocky Mountains whose livelihoods and avocations bring them in routine contact with weather, climate, and landscape. Analysis of their climate knowledge in three categories, features, processes, and benchmarks, and placed in perspective of previous research on climate knowledges, yielded three findings. 1) People often focus on climate-related proxies that might be disregarded as tangential within narrow definitions of climate. 2) People use rubrics to structure climate knowledge, they understand climate as relational and connected. 3) Climate knowledge does not isolate individual climate elements, but accentuates the complex way that many processes together constitute climate. These findings reveal that, for our interviewees, climate is a social-ecological-atmospheric construct. This has both theoretical and methodological implications for future research on climate perception and illuminates the challenge of linking perception to effective mitigation and adaptation. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Attitudes; Beliefs; Climate knowledge; Climate knowledge; Climate literacy; Climate perception
学科领域	anthropogenic effect; climate change; knowledge; landscape change; literature review; perception; public attitude; questionnaire survey; Rocky Mountains
语种	英语
scopus关键词	anthropogenic effect; climate change; knowledge; landscape change; literature review; perception; public attitude; questionnaire survey; Rocky Mountains
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117162
作者单位	Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado, Campus Box 216, Boulder, CO, United States; Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Campus Box 260, Boulder, CO, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Clifford K.R.,Travis W.R.. Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct[J],2018,49.
APA	Clifford K.R.,&Travis W.R..(2018).Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct.Global Environmental change,49.
MLA	Clifford K.R.,et al."Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct".Global Environmental change 49(2018).