A psychological perspective on climate stress in coastal India.

Autor/inn/en	Mudaliar, Ruchi; Rishi, Parul
Titel	A psychological perspective on climate stress in coastal India. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Eine psychologische Perspektive von Klimastress in den Küstenregionen Indiens.
Quelle	Aus: Scheffran, Jürgen (Hrsg.); Brzoska, Michael (Hrsg.); Brauch, Hans Günter (Hrsg.); Link, Peter Michael (Hrsg.); Schilling, Janpeter (Hrsg.): Climate change, human security and violent conflict. Challenges for societal stability. Berlin: Springer (2012) S. 613-631 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace. 8
Beigaben	Tabellen 2; Abbildungen 5
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-642-28625-4
DOI	10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_30
Schlagwörter	Vergleichende Forschung; Kognition; Verhalten; Wohlbefinden; Lebensstil; Asien; Gesundheit; Indien; Kognition; Mensch; Naturkatastrophe; Sicherheit; Stadt; Stress; Südasien; Verhalten; Umweltfaktor; Wohlbefinden; Lebensstil; Stadtbevölkerung; Umweltpsychologie; Maßnahme; Vergleichende Forschung; Mensch; Stress; Klimawandel; Küstenregion; Stadt; Gesundheit; Entwicklungsland; Naturkatastrophe; Umweltfaktor; Umweltpsychologie; Konferenzschrift; Maßnahme; Sicherheit; Stadtbevölkerung; Konferenzschrift; Asien; Indien; Südasien
Abstract	"India has been identified as one amongst 27 countries which are most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming related to accelerated sea-level rise (UNEP 1989). In view of the perceived potential threat to coastal India, it becomes more important that people of these cities should be thoroughly studied also from a psychological perspective, alongside the technical studies of the potential physical impacts of changing climate. This chapter offers a pilot study undertaken at a coastal site in India. It is aimed at developing a conceptual framework for the behavioral analysis of people in the context of climate change and how they have adapted to whatever climate changes they believe have occurred or are likely to occur. Current concern over global climate change stems, in part, from the predominant evidence that its causes are anthropogenic, i.e. the result of human behavior. However, it is less widely recognized that the solutions are also rooted in human behavior. This chapter is in line with article 6 of the New Delhi Work Program of UNFCCC (2007), in which a special effort to foster psychological and behavioral change through public awareness has been stressed. The psychological assessment of the humanclimate interface, behavioral adaptation, and the subjective well-being of people residing in Indian coastal cities are therefore crucial topics of concern. The study was conducted based on a sample of 31 adults at Veraval, a coastal city located on the shores of the Arabian Sea in Gujarat. The purpose was to elicit people's perceptions about climate change, climate stress, and associated psychological dimensions." (excerpt).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2013/3