Understanding Risk Research Group, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, CF10 3AT, Wales, UK.
Risk Anal. 2012 Jun;32(6):951-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01856.x.
Climate change is an increasingly salient issue for societies and policy-makers worldwide. It now raises fundamental interdisciplinary issues of risk and uncertainty analysis and communication. The growing scientific consensus over the anthropogenic causes of climate change appears to sit at odds with the increasing use of risk discourses in policy: for example, to aid in climate adaptation decision making. All of this points to a need for a fundamental revision of our conceptualization of what it is to do climate risk communication. This Special Collection comprises seven papers stimulated by a workshop on "Climate Risk Perceptions and Communication" held at Cumberland Lodge Windsor in 2010. Topics addressed include climate uncertainties, images and the media, communication and public engagement, uncertainty transfer in climate communication, the role of emotions, localization of hazard impacts, and longitudinal analyses of climate perceptions. Climate change risk perceptions and communication work is critical for future climate policy and decisions.
气候变化是全球社会和政策制定者日益关注的问题。它现在提出了风险和不确定性分析和沟通的基本跨学科问题。人们对气候变化的人为原因的科学共识似乎与政策中越来越多地使用风险话语相矛盾：例如，帮助气候适应决策。所有这些都表明，我们需要对气候风险沟通的概念进行根本性的修正。本特刊由 2010 年在温莎坎伯兰楼举行的“气候风险认知与沟通”研讨会激发的七篇论文组成。所涉及的主题包括气候不确定性、形象与媒体、沟通与公众参与、气候沟通中的不确定性传递、情感的作用、危害影响的本地化以及气候认知的纵向分析。气候变化风险认知和沟通工作对未来的气候政策和决策至关重要。
