caa a22 4500 467917876 CHVBK 20180406152908.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-9072-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-9072-z Public Views on Climate Change: European and USA Perspectives [Elektronische Daten] [Irene Lorenzoni, Nick Pidgeon] If uncontrolled, human influences on the climate system may generate changes that will endanger various aspects of life on Earth. The precise implications of the scientific claims about climate change, and the extent to which they pose dangers to various populations, are becoming intensely debated at many levels in relation to policy. How 'sdanger' is interpreted will ultimately affect which actions are taken. In this paper, we examine how climate change is conceptualised by publics in Europe and in the USA. Although there is widespread concern about climate change, it is of secondary importance in comparison to other issues in people's daily lives. Most individuals relate to climate change through personal experience, knowledge, the balance of benefits and costs, and trust in other societal actors. We analyse these factors through findings from various surveys and studies, which highlight both the distinctiveness and some shared perspectives at a generalised level. We reflect upon these in relation to trust and responsibility for climate change action, and risk communication, supporting the call for discourses about climate change to also be situated in people's locality, as a means of increasing its saliency. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Lorenzoni Irene Centre for Environmental Risk and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut Pidgeon Nick Centre for Environmental Risk and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/1-2(2006-07-01), 73-95 0165-0009 77:1-2<73 2006 77 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9072-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9072-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lorenzoni Irene Centre for Environmental Risk and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pidgeon Nick Centre for Environmental Risk and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/1-2(2006-07-01), 73-95 0165-0009 77:1-2<73 2006 77 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer