Climate-driven ‘species-on-the-move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change
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Climate-driven ‘species-on-the-move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change. / Pecl, Gretta T.; Kelly, Rachel; Lucas, Chloe; van Putten, Ingrid; Badhe, Renuka; Champion, Curtis; Chen, I-Ching; Defeo, Omar; Gaitan-Espitia, Juan Diego; Evengård, Birgitta; Fordham, Damien A.; Guo, Fengyi; Henriques, Romina; Henry, Sabine; Lenoir, Jonathan; McGhie, Henry; Mustonen, Tero; Oliver, Stephen; Pettorelli, Nathalie; Pinsky, Malin L.; Potts, Warren; Santana-Garcon, Julia; Sauer, Warwick; Stensgaard, Anna-Sofie; Tingley, Morgan W.; Verges, Adriana.
In: People and Nature , Vol. 5, No. 5, 2023, p. 1384-1402.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Climate-driven ‘species-on-the-move’ provide tangible anchors to engage the public on climate change
AU - Pecl, Gretta T.
AU - Kelly, Rachel
AU - Lucas, Chloe
AU - van Putten, Ingrid
AU - Badhe, Renuka
AU - Champion, Curtis
AU - Chen, I-Ching
AU - Defeo, Omar
AU - Gaitan-Espitia, Juan Diego
AU - Evengård, Birgitta
AU - Fordham, Damien A.
AU - Guo, Fengyi
AU - Henriques, Romina
AU - Henry, Sabine
AU - Lenoir, Jonathan
AU - McGhie, Henry
AU - Mustonen, Tero
AU - Oliver, Stephen
AU - Pettorelli, Nathalie
AU - Pinsky, Malin L.
AU - Potts, Warren
AU - Santana-Garcon, Julia
AU - Sauer, Warwick
AU - Stensgaard, Anna-Sofie
AU - Tingley, Morgan W.
AU - Verges, Adriana
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. People and Nature published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Over recent decades, our understanding of climate change has accelerated greatly, but unfortunately, observable impacts have increased in tandem. Both mitigation and adaptation have not progressed at the level or scale warranted by our collective knowledge on climate change. More effective approaches to engage people on current and future anthropogenic climate change effects are urgently needed. Here, we show how species whose distributions are shifting in response to climate change, that is, ‘species-on-the-move’, present an opportunity to engage people with climate change by linking to human values, and our deep connections with the places in which we live, in a locally relevant yet globally coherent narrative. Species-on-the-move can impact ecosystem structure and function, food security, human health, livelihoods, culture and even the climate itself through feedback to the climate system, presenting a wide variety of potential pathways for people to understand that climate change affects them personally as individuals. Citizen science focussed on documenting changes in biodiversity is one approach to foster a deeper engagement on climate change. However, other possible avenues, which may offer potential to engage people currently unconnected with nature, include arts, games or collaborations with rural agriculture (e.g. new occurrences of pest species) or fisheries organisations (e.g. shifting stocks) or healthcare providers (e.g. changing distributions of disease vectors). Through the importance we place on the aspects of life impacted by the redistribution of species around us, species-on-the-move offer emotional pathways to connect with people on the complex issue of climate change in profound ways that have the potential to engender interest and action on climate change. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
AB - Over recent decades, our understanding of climate change has accelerated greatly, but unfortunately, observable impacts have increased in tandem. Both mitigation and adaptation have not progressed at the level or scale warranted by our collective knowledge on climate change. More effective approaches to engage people on current and future anthropogenic climate change effects are urgently needed. Here, we show how species whose distributions are shifting in response to climate change, that is, ‘species-on-the-move’, present an opportunity to engage people with climate change by linking to human values, and our deep connections with the places in which we live, in a locally relevant yet globally coherent narrative. Species-on-the-move can impact ecosystem structure and function, food security, human health, livelihoods, culture and even the climate itself through feedback to the climate system, presenting a wide variety of potential pathways for people to understand that climate change affects them personally as individuals. Citizen science focussed on documenting changes in biodiversity is one approach to foster a deeper engagement on climate change. However, other possible avenues, which may offer potential to engage people currently unconnected with nature, include arts, games or collaborations with rural agriculture (e.g. new occurrences of pest species) or fisheries organisations (e.g. shifting stocks) or healthcare providers (e.g. changing distributions of disease vectors). Through the importance we place on the aspects of life impacted by the redistribution of species around us, species-on-the-move offer emotional pathways to connect with people on the complex issue of climate change in profound ways that have the potential to engender interest and action on climate change. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
KW - biodiversity
KW - climate change communication
KW - climate change engagement
KW - environmental communication
KW - human values
KW - message framing
KW - place attachment
KW - species redistribution
U2 - 10.1002/pan3.10495
DO - 10.1002/pan3.10495
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85165067880
VL - 5
SP - 1384
EP - 1402
JO - People and Nature
JF - People and Nature
SN - 2575-8314
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 361849882