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Communicating climate change: Climate change risk perceptions and rock lobster fishers, Tasmania
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Nursey-Bray, M and Pecl, GT and Frusher, SD and Gardner, C and Haward, M and Hobday, AJ and Jennings, S and Punt, AE and Revill, H and Van Putten, I, Communicating climate change: Climate change risk perceptions and rock lobster fishers, Tasmania, Marine Policy, 36, (3) pp. 753-759. ISSN 0308-597X (2012) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2011.10.015
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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | climate change, rock lobster fisheries, risk perception, Australia, communication |
| Research Division: | Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences |
| Research Group: | Fisheries sciences |
| Research Field: | Fisheries sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Animal Production and Animal Primary Products |
| Objective Group: | Fisheries - wild caught |
| Objective Field: | Wild caught crustaceans (excl. rock lobster and prawns) |
| UTAS Author: | Pecl, GT (Professor Gretta Pecl) |
| UTAS Author: | Frusher, SD (Professor Stewart Frusher) |
| UTAS Author: | Gardner, C (Professor Caleb Gardner) |
| UTAS Author: | Haward, M (Professor Marcus Haward) |
| UTAS Author: | Jennings, S (Dr Sarah Jennings) |
| ID Code: | 77740 |
| Year Published: | 2012 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 64 |
| Deposited By: | Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration |
| Deposited On: | 2012-05-23 |
| Last Modified: | 2013-05-06 |
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