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Future visioning of local climate change: A framework for community engagement and planning with scenarios and visualisation
Stephen R.J. Sheppard,Alison Shaw,David Flanders,Sarah Burch,Arnim Wiek,Jeff Carmichael,John Robinson,Stewart Cohen +7 more
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In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed to generate alternative, coherent, holistic climate change scenarios and visualizations at the local scale, in collaboration with local stakeholders and scientists, and the framework provides a template for a process to integrate emission scenarios with both mitigation and adaptation strategies.About:
This article is published in Futures.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 311 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Political economy of climate change & Community engagement.read more
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Review: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
TL;DR: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins as discussed by the authors outlines a realistic and hopeful vision of post-carbon communities and the practical steps needed to get there.
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Actionable knowledge for environmental decision making: Broadening the usability of climate science
TL;DR: A review of climate information use in the United States and United Kingdom to explore how the structure of knowledge production and the characteristics of users and their decision environments expose the challenges of broadening usable climate science.
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Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for integrating multiple exposures into vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning is presented, and a comprehensive typology of drivers and exposures experienced by coastal communities is developed.
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A strategic program for transitioning to a Water Sensitive City
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a strategic program for long-term urban infrastructure management related to path-dependencies, the direction of transformative change, system complexity and future uncertainty.
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Climate change and visual imagery
Saffron O'Neill,Nicholas Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the nascent research area of the visual representations of climate change, and public engagement with visual imagery, and synthesized a diverse body of research to explore visual representations and engagement across the news media, NGO communications, advertising, and marketing, climate science, art, and virtual reality systems.
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Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?
Anja Kollmuss,Julian Agyeman +1 more
TL;DR: A number of theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro-environmental behavior as discussed by the authors, but no definitive explanation has yet been found.
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New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for advancing theories of environmentally significant individual behavior and reports on the attempts of the author's research group and others to develop such a theory is developed in this article. But, it does not consider the effect of environmental concern on individual behavior.
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The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
Richard H. Moss,Jae Edmonds,Kathy Hibbard,Martin R. Manning,Steven K. Rose,Detlef P. van Vuuren,Timothy R. Carter,Seita Emori,Mikiko Kainuma,Tom Kram,Gerald A. Meehl,John F. B. Mitchell,Nebojsa Nakicenovic,Nebojsa Nakicenovic,Keywan Riahi,Steven J. Smith,Ronald J. Stouffer,Allison M. Thomson,John P. Weyant,Thomas J. Wilbanks +19 more
TL;DR: A new process for creating plausible scenarios to investigate some of the most challenging and important questions about climate change confronting the global community is described.
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
Nancy B. Grimm,Stanley H. Faeth,Nancy Golubiewski,Charles L. Redman,Jianguo Wu,Xuemei Bai,John M. Briggs +6 more
TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.
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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
TL;DR: In this article, a review is presented of the book "Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, and Daniel Kahneman".