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Communicating climate change: Climate change risk perceptions and rock lobster fishers, Tasmania

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  • Nursey-Bray, Melissa
  • Pecl, G.T.
  • Frusher, S.
  • Gardner, C.
  • Haward, M.
  • Hobday, A.J.
  • Jennings, S.
  • Punt, A.E.
  • Revill, H.
  • van Putten, I.

Abstract

World fisheries, already vulnerable, are under increasing pressure from the impacts of climate change. Using the Tasmanian rock lobster industry as a case study, we considered the efficacy of risk perception as a tool to inform how to communicate the science of climate change and suggestions for management in relation to development of adaptation strategies for fisheries. Fishers surveyed in this study operate in a fishery that is expected to undergo large changes as a consequence of climate change. Fishers also reported observations of similar large changes in the marine environment and lobster fishery consistent with climate change; yet most fishers surveyed expressed doubts about whether climate change was a real process. The important point for adaption of the industry to climate change is that fisher perceptions of risk tended to create barriers to acceptance of climate change as an issue. This means that there is a barrier to communication and awareness about climate change and thus a barrier to future action on the issue. Improving acceptance of climate change and thus ability to adapt will require the development of communications that are culturally appropriate and palatable to fishers. We argue that the application of social learning principles in communications about climate change may be one constructive way forward.

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  • Nursey-Bray, Melissa & Pecl, G.T. & Frusher, S. & Gardner, C. & Haward, M. & Hobday, A.J. & Jennings, S. & Punt, A.E. & Revill, H. & van Putten, I., 2012. "Communicating climate change: Climate change risk perceptions and rock lobster fishers, Tasmania," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 753-759.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:36:y:2012:i:3:p:753-759
    DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.10.015
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    1. Shaikh Mohammad Kais & Md Saidul Islam, 2019. "Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(4), pages 1-12, February.
    2. Saúl Torres Ortega & Nick Hanley & Pedro Diaz Simal, 2014. "A Proposed Methodology for Prioritizing Project Effects to Include in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Resilience, Vulnerability and Risk Perception," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(11), pages 1-22, November.
    3. Louis Lebel, 2013. "Local knowledge and adaptation to climate change in natural resource-based societies of the Asia-Pacific," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 18(7), pages 1057-1076, October.
    4. P. Leith & E. Ogier & G. Pecl & E. Hoshino & J. Davidson & M. Haward, 2014. "Towards a diagnostic approach to climate adaptation for fisheries," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 122(1), pages 55-66, January.
    5. Gretta Pecl & Tim Ward & Zoë Doubleday & Steven Clarke & Jemery Day & Cameron Dixon & Stewart Frusher & Philip Gibbs & Alistair Hobday & Neil Hutchinson & Sarah Jennings & Keith Jones & Xiaoxu Li & Da, 2014. "Rapid assessment of fisheries species sensitivity to climate change," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 127(3), pages 505-520, December.
    6. Delali B. K. Dovie & Mawuli Dzodzomenyo & Daniel E. Dodor & Antwi-Boasiako Amoah & Daniel K. Twerefou & Samuel N. A. Codjoe & Raymond A. Kasei, 2020. "Multi-Vector Approach to Cities’ Transition to Low-Carbon Emission Developments," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(13), pages 1-14, July.

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