Katherine R. Clifford|William R. Travis
Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct
University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado Boulder
climate perception broadly construed include interpretations experienced climate beliefs climate works changes attitudes climate issues human role climate change even climate preferences recent literature stressed three main themes attitudes beliefs anthropogenic climate change climate literacy experienced knowledge climate change study focuses people come know climate climate change fundamental way discern structure knowledges conducted semistructured interviews residents basin us rocky mountains whose livelihoods avocations bring routine contact weather climate landscape analysis climate knowledge three categories features processes benchmarks placed perspective previous research climate knowledges yielded three findings 1 people often focus climaterelated proxies might disregarded tangential within narrow definitions climate 2 people use rubrics structure climate knowledge understand climate relational connected 3 climate knowledge isolate individual climate elements accentuates complex way many processes together constitute climate findings reveal interviewees climate socialecologicalatmospheric construct theoretical methodological implications future research climate perception illuminates challenge linking perception effective mitigation adaptation