Attitudes to climate change, perceptions of disaster risk, and mitigation and adaptation behavior in Yunlin County, Taiwan

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Title:	Attitudes to climate change, perceptions of disaster risk, and mitigation and adaptation behavior in Yunlin County, Taiwan
Authors:	Lee, YJ (Lee, Yung-Jaan) Tung, CM (Tung, Chuan-Ming) Lin, SC (Lin, Shih-Chien)
Contributors:	建築系
Keywords:	Vulnerability Ecological footprint Risk perception Place attachment Structural equation model
Date:	2019-10
Issue Date:	2019-12-16 14:02:27 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	Issues that are associated with climate change have global importance. Most related studies take a national or regional perspective on the impact of climate change. Taiwan is constrained by its geographical conditions, which increase its vulnerability to climate change, especially in its western coastal areas. The county that is most affected by climate change is Yunlin. In 2013-2014, projects that were sponsored by Taiwan's government analyzed the relationship among synthesized vulnerability, ecological footprint (EF) and adaptation to climate change and proposed 15 categories of synthesized vulnerability and EF values. This study further examines the relationship between vulnerability and EF values and examines how residents of four townships-Linnei, Sihu, Mailiao, and Huwei-cope with the effects of climate change. This study investigates whether the residents of the four townships vary in their attitudes to climate change, their perceptions of disaster risk, and their behavioral intentions with respect to coping with climate change. The structural equation model (SEM) is used to examine the relationships among attitudes to climate change, perceptions of disaster risk, and the behavioral intentions of residents in townships with various vulnerabilities to climate change. The results that are obtained using the SEM reveal that climate change mitigation/adaptation behavior is affected by attitudes to climate change and perceptions of disaster risk. However, the effects of attitudes and perceptions on mitigation and adaptation that are mediated by place attachment are not statistically significant.
Relation:	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 卷冊: 26 期: 30 頁數: 30603-30613 特刊: SI
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Architecture and Urban Design & Graduate Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning ] journal articles

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