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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate policy and action; communication and engagement; science-policy interface; pro-environmental behaviour
Interests: cities; urban governance; environmental policy; theories of place
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Clear policy signals by international organisations and national governments remain essential. Important decisions are increasingly being made beyond these scales, however, fostering climate action within localities: decisions about low-carbon business opportunities, renewable energy investment, urban transport, energy management, building efficiency and the management of climate risks. Meanwhile, it is increasingly being argued that the effective delivery of climate policy ultimately happens through place-based initiatives at the local level (Galarraga et al 2011, 2017) and that effective delivery of actions to promote low-carbon and climate-resilient development will require experiments with new governance arrangements (Bulkeley et al. 2019; Castan Broto, 2020; Kivimaa et al, 2017; Jordan et al. 2018). In particular, processes that engage and harness the combined energies of public, private and third sectors (Gouldson et al, 2016) and empower the aspirations of engaged individuals (Burke et al. 2018) are required.
This Special Issue invites research from a range of disciplines that contributes new thinking relating to the praxis of local climate action as well as methods for bridging the gap between theory and practice on climate action at the local level. Articles which explicitly engage with the challenge of enacting theories and imaginaries of sustainable futures in practice are particularly welcome. We invite submissions of abstracts on or around the following topics:
- Pro-environmental behaviour;
- Critical perspectives on what ‘place’ means for shaping climate change responses;
- What ‘community’ means in the context of climate action;
- Challenges in bridging climate theory and practice within place-based action;
- Translation of climate policy into local action;
- Innovative forms of local engagement and communication;
- Everyday enactments of climate change resistance;
- Different aspects of climate praxis for multilevel change;
- Local climate adaptation.
References
Bulkeley H., Marvin S., Palgan Y. V., McCormick K., Breitfuss-Loidl M., Mai L., von Wirth T. and Frantzeskaki N. (2019). Urban Living Laboratories: conducting the experimental city? European Urban and Regional Studies. 26. 317-335
Burke, M., Ockwell, D. and Whitmarsh, L., (2018) Participatory arts and affective engagement with climate change: The missing link in achieving climate compatible behaviour change?. Global Environmental Change, 49, pp.95-105.
Castan Broto, V. (2020) Beyond tabulated utopias: Action and contradiction in urban environments, Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020919084
Galarraga, I., Gonzalez-Eguino, M., Markandya, A. (2011) The Role of Regional Governments in Climate Change Policy. Environmental Policy and Governance, 21(3), 164-182
Dr. Candice Howarth
Dr. Matthew Lane
Dr. Amanda Slevin
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- climate action
- pro-environmental behaviour
- local
- praxis
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Applying a Modified Theory of Planned Behaviour to Explain Disaster Preparedness for Typhoons in Hong Kong
Authors: Sai Leung Ng; Cheuk Yee Chan
Affiliation: Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract: Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of various types of extreme weather events. While Hong Kong is affected by 6 to 7 tropical cyclones every year, a few destructive typhoons were found in the last decade, prompting the importance of disaster preparedness. As the majority of existing literature of disaster preparedness focused either on the risk perception of the community or the resilience of the city, there are relatively few studies investigated the disaster preparedness behaviour (DPB) and why the behaviour was shaped. With this in mind, this study adopted a modified theory of planned behaviour by adding two new variables, risk perception and precedent experiences, to understand how these variables and their interaction in affecting resident’s intention of disaster preparedness. A questionnaire survey (N=300) was conducted at Lei Yue Mun, a typhoon disaster-prone region, to reflect a broader scale of disaster preparedness in Hong Kong, then the data was analysed using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) techniques. Results indicated that the disaster preparedness level for typhoon of Hong Kong people was high. The DPB was affected by intention, perceived behavioural control, and risk perception; and subjective norms shaped the formation of intention. The findings are expected to provide an insight for effective planning and management of natural hazards in Hong Kong.