Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Office 2223, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Ambio. 2024 Aug;53(8):1182-1202. doi: 10.1007/s13280-024-01999-5. Epub 2024 May 6.
Climate concern is on the rise in many countries and recent research finds that lifestyle- and behaviour-change could advance climate action; yet, individuals struggle to move their climate concern into action. This is known as the 'awareness-action inconsistency,' 'psychological climate paradox,' or 'values-action gap.' While this gap has been extensively studied, climate action implementation and policy-design seldom sufficiently apply that body of knowledge in practice. This Perspective presents a comprehensive heuristic to account for how individuals bring climate change into their awareness (climate action-logics), how they keep climate change out of their awareness (climate shadow), how social narratives contribute to shaping choices (climate discourses), and how systems and structures influence and constrain agency (climate-action systems). The heuristic is illustrated with an example of 15-Minute Cities in Canada. Understanding the multifaceted dilemma that weighs on people's sense-making and behaviours may help policy-makers and practitioners to ameliorate the climate awareness-action gap.
在许多国家，对气候的关注日益增加，最近的研究发现，生活方式和行为的改变可以推动气候行动；然而，个人却难以将对气候的关注转化为行动。这就是所谓的“意识-行动不一致”、“心理气候悖论”或“价值观-行动差距”。虽然这一差距已经得到了广泛的研究，但气候行动的实施和政策设计在实践中很少充分应用这些知识。本观点提出了一个全面的启发式方法，以说明个人如何将气候变化纳入他们的意识（气候行动逻辑），如何将气候变化排除在他们的意识之外（气候阴影），社会叙事如何有助于塑造选择（气候话语），以及系统和结构如何影响和限制代理（气候行动系统）。该启发式方法通过加拿大 15 分钟城市的一个例子来说明。了解影响人们认知和行为的多方面困境，可能有助于政策制定者和实践者弥合气候意识-行动差距。
