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Accepted Paper:
Risk Perception: Local Priorities and Realities influencing Responses to Climate Change in Coastal Bangladesh
Joanne Jordan
(University of Manchester)
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines how perceptions of climate risk and associated adaptation strategies are influenced by vulnerability. It emphasises the importance of understanding risk in the context of local priorities and realities, specifically how perceptions, beliefs, and values influence behaviour.
Paper long abstract:
Recently, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of understanding perceptions of climate change risk for developing effective adaptation strategies to climate change. This paper explores this proposition, by examining how perceptions of climate change risk and associated adaptation strategies are framed in the context of vulnerability, through case-study research in coastal Bangladesh. Specifically, it emphasises the importance of understanding 'problems' and risks in the context of local priorities and realities, in particular how people's perceptions, beliefs, attitudes and values influence their choices and behaviour towards climate change risk.