Climate change and climate variability: personal motivation for adaptation and mitigation
Open Access
- 21 May 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Environmental Health
- Vol. 10 (1), 46
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-069x-10-46
Abstract
Global climate change impacts on human and natural systems are predicted to be severe, far reaching, and to affect the most physically and economically vulnerable disproportionately. Society can respond to these threats through two strategies: mitigation and adaptation. Industry, commerce, and government play indispensable roles in these actions but so do individuals, if they are receptive to behavior change. We explored whether the health frame can be used as a context to motivate behavioral reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures.Keywords
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