Land-users' perceptions and adaptations to climate change in Mexico and Spain: Commonalities across cultural and geographical contexts
Por:
Campos M., McCall M.K., González-Puente M.
Publicada:
1 abr 2014
Categoría:
Global and Planetary Change
Resumen:
Comparing agricultural management practices across scales and in different cultural settings can reveal shared insights into the capacity to adjust and respond to change and uncertainty. Differences make comparisons in environmental risk perceptions and responses particularly interesting and valuable, with obtained similarities being in many ways more interesting than found differences, which might be readily expected in places with remarkable geographical and demographic differences. People's perception of climatic risks and hazards appears to be important to understand the context in which adaptation strategies to climate change emerge. Our intention, rather than compare the two case studies at the local scale, one in Mexico and one in Spain, is to identify existing common mechanisms to perceive climate change and to address adaptation among two very different geographical and cultural contexts. The study aims first to explore people's perceptions of climate change and its outcomes; second to analyse the adaptation measures that they have developed and develop some preliminary ideas about their strategies; and third to consider the capacity of people to cope and adapt endogenously, in terms of the measures that people think that their governments should take to enhance/strengthen them at the local scale. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Filiaciones:
Campos M.:
Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
McCall M.K.:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Invest Geog, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
González-Puente M.:
Institut de Ciència I Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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