广州城市居民气候变化风险认知分析

Analysis of Survey on Urban Residents’ Cognition of Climate Change Risk in Guangzhou

气候变化风险认知是指个人或群体对以气候变暖为特征的气候变化的客观认识以及对已受到或将受到这种风险影响或损失的可能性的评估与判断,主要包括气候变化风险事件认知、风险源认知、风险后果认知以及风险责任认知四个方面。广州城市居民气候变化风险认知的问卷调查结果显示,公众对气候变化风险源的认知普遍高于气候变化风险事件;公众对气候变化风险后果的认知程度较高,对"危及子孙后代"、"灾难性"的风险后果认同率最高;政府、企业在应对气候变化中的责任最大。

Cognition of climate change risk is defined as an individual or group＇ objective understanding of climate change characterized by global warming and assessment and judgment of possibility o age caused by global warming, which can be evaluated from the following aspects： public＇s f influence or dam- cognition of risk e- vents related to climate change, cognition of risk sources, cognition of risk consequence and cognition of risk responsibility. The questionnaire survey on urban residents＇ cognition of climate change risk in Guangzhou shows that public cognition of source of climate change risk is higher than that of risk events related to climate change ; the public has higher level of cognition of climate ehange＇s consequences, and unsustainable and cata- strophic risk consequences have the highest level of recognition by the public; governments and enterprises are considered to shoulder the most important responsibility to address climate change. Survey on urban residents＇ cognition of climate change risk provides reference for popularization of climate change knowledge, and helps promote the public＇s participation in the mitigation and adaption of global warming.