Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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Rain, Riches, and Empire: The Relationship between Nations Ruling Distant Lands, Nations of Great Wealth, and Regions of Regular Moderate Atmospheric Precipitation
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractTwo of the great questions of human history and economics are why some nations held far-flung empires and why some presently enjoy great wealth. One factor that should be included in the inevitably multifactorial ... -
The Perception of Daily Temperatures as Evidence of Global Warming
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractUnlike the scientific definition of global warming (GW), public discussion often links the existence of GW to daily temperatures rather than long-term averages. Previous research found that daily weather is perceived ... -
Narrative as a Method for Eliciting Tacit Knowledge of Climate Variability in Bangladesh
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractClimate change adaptation has increasingly come to be conceptualized as a place-based social process, in large part mediated by the local cultural context. The specificity of adaptation has called for partnerships ... -
The Role of Health in Urban Climate Adaptation: An Analysis of Six U.S. Cities
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractClimate change threatens the health of urban residents in many ways. This qualitative study aims to understand how six U.S. cities are considering health adaptation when responding to climate change; 65 semistructured ... -
Adaptive Capacity to Extreme Heat: Results from a Household Survey in Houston, Texas
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractExtreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related mortality in the United States, suggesting the necessity for better understanding population vulnerability to extreme heat. The work presented here is part of a ... -
Factors Associated with the Climate Change Vulnerability and the Adaptive Capacity of People with Disability: A Systematic Review
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractPeople with disability experience multidimensional inequalities, which heighten their vulnerability to climate change. An understanding of the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of people with disability can be ... -
Engaging with Users of Climate Information and the Coproduction of Knowledge
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractWithin the realm of climate and environmental sciences, stakeholder engagement has traditionally been given a relative low priority in favor of generating tools, products, and services following the longstanding ... -
Making Complexity Your Friend: Reframing Social Theory for the Anthropocene
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis article uses the dilemma of climate change as an entry point to explore the utility of a complexity framework for a more comprehensive social science of environmental sustainability. A theory of complex adaptive ... -
Transcending Ontological Schisms in Relationships with Earth, Water, Air, and Ice
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractOntological separations made between earth, water, air, and ice can surreptitiously produce high-risk outcomes in environmental policy processes. Where legislation, risk assessments, land rights, or governance is ... -
Skeptical but Adapting: What Midwestern Farmers Say about Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractFarmers stand to be greatly affected by changes in the climate, necessitating adaptive responses, yet little is documented on how U.S. Midwestern farmers understand and perceive climate change adaptation. Eight ... -
Imagining the Ordinary in Participatory Climate Adaptation
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis article examines the ways Red Cross training in vulnerability capacity assessment (VCA) structures people?s understandings of the ordinary. This examination is situated within the context of Georgetown, Guyana, ... -
Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Natural Resources: Barriers and Priorities for Land-Grant Universities in the Northeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractClimate change has serious implications for agricultural production, natural resource management, and food security. In the United States, land-grant universities and the U.S. Cooperative Extension System have a ... -
Planning for Winter Road Maintenance in the Context of Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractWinter weather creates mobility challenges for most northern jurisdictions, leading to significant expenditures on winter road maintenance (WRM) activities. While the science and practice of snow and ice control ... -
WMO Assessment of Weather and Climate Mortality Extremes: Lightning, Tropical Cyclones, Tornadoes, and Hail
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractA World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Climatology international panel was convened to examine and assess the available evidence associated with five weather-related mortality extremes: 1) lightning ... -
“It’s Not Balancing out Like It Should Be”: Perceptions of Local Climate Variability in Native Oklahoma
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractFieldwork was conducted in 2009?11 with Native American agriculturalists and traditionalists in southwestern Oklahoma on the form and use of their weather and climate knowledge: how it is constituted, how it is ... -
Hope and Worry: Gendered Emotional Geographies of Climate Change in Three Vulnerable U.S. Communities
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractClimate scientists have proposed that many people have not yet felt the results of climate change. This explains, at least in part, why some people are so unmotivated to make changes to mitigate climate change. ... -
Mapping Tourism Stakeholders’ Weather and Climate Information-Seeking Behavior in Fiji
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractTourism is inherently dependent on weather and climate, and its sustainability and resilience to adverse weather and climate impacts is greatly enhanced by providing tailored climate services to tourism sector ... -
What It Means to Become “More Resilient”: An Analysis of Local Resilience-Building Approaches in Three Florida Communities
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractFrom international to local scales of governance, resilience building is being presented as the way to prepare for impacts of both slow- and quick-onset disasters. Having transitioned from ecological to social ... -
The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change: Perspectives from Vanuatu
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThere is increasing recognition of traditional knowledge as an important store of information and practices for building adaptive capacity for climate change in the Pacific. However, empirical research and documentation ... -
Weather Warning Uncertainty: High Severity Influences Judgment Bias
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractInformation about hurricanes changes as the storm approaches land. Additionally, people tend to think that severe events are more likely to occur even if the probability of that event occurring is the same as a ...