Public engagement with marine climate change issues: (Re)framings,understandings and responses |
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| Institution: | 1. Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Research Group, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK;2. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK;3. School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK;4. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK;5. Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES) & Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (LINCGlobal), Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;1. Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA;2. Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA;3. School of Public Policy, Sociology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;1. School of Geography & Earth Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1;2. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, 175 Longwood Road South, Suite 204, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8P 0A1;1. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK;2. Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research, Plymouth University, UK;3. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK;4. European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Truro, UK;5. University of Gävle, Sweden;6. UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK;1. School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;2. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;3. Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada;4. Marine Management Solutions, Honolulu, HI, United States;5. School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Australia;6. Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Canada;7. Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, United States;8. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia;9. Conservation International, Pacific Islands Program, New Zealand;10. Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States;11. Fisheries Ecology Research Laboratory, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI, United States;12. Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, United States;13. Conservation International Center for Oceans, Honolulu, USA;14. Big Ocean, Honolulu, USA;15. 84 and Sunny, Honolulu, USA;p. International Union for the Conservation of Nature Large-Scale MPA Task Force, Gland, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Climate change impacts on marine environments have been somewhat neglected in climate change research, particularly with regard to their social dimensions and implications. This paper contributes to addressing this gap through presenting a UK focused mixed-method study of how publics frame, understand and respond to marine climate change-related issues. It draws on data from a large national survey of UK publics (N = 1,001), undertaken in January 2011 as part of a wider European survey, in conjunction with in-depth qualitative insights from a citizens’ panel with participants from the East Anglia region, UK. This reveals that discrete marine climate change impacts, as often framed in technical or institutional terms, were not the most immediate or significant issues for most respondents. Study participants tended to view these climate impacts ‘in context’, in situated ways, and as entangled with other issues relating to marine environments and their everyday lives. Whilst making connections with scientific knowledge on the subject, public understandings of marine climate impacts were mainly shaped by personal experience, the visibility and proximity of impacts, sense of personal risk and moral or equity-based arguments. In terms of responses, study participants prioritised climate change mitigation measures over adaptation, even in high-risk areas. We consider the implications of these insights for research and practices of public engagement on marine climate impacts specifically, and climate change more generally. |
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| Keywords: | Marine climate change impacts Public understandings Public engagement Mixed-methodology (Re)framing Climate change as a public issue |
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