POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Community Forestry, Urban Climate, Reducing Emissions From Deforestation And Forest Degradation
Document Summary
Community and the governing of climate change (bn) View that behavioural change would occur if communities were provided with information about the nature of environmental risks and what they could do to address them. Importance of basing policy on community knowledge was recognized. Public knowledge may be able to inform policy design. Seeking to engage individuals in the action of climate change requires an engagement with the ways in which ghg emissions are produced through the practises of everyday life. The public engagement of environmental issues and cc is shaped by a range of individual and social factors. Provision of information alone is unlikely to have much effect on behaviour. 1970s and 1980s: public concern for environmental issues grew. Opinion polls and surveys seemed to indicate the environmental matters. On the other hand, the public appeared to be ignorant about the scientific basis and the implications of these issues. Unwilling to engage in behaviour change to address them.
