CFGS Projects

Project Summary

Title: Climate change adaptation and mitigation: Are they linked? A case study of Canadian coastal communities (PhD Thesis)

Date: End 2006

Location: Victoria and Salt Spring Island, BC

Directors: Johanna Wolf, PhD cand. (lead researcher), Prof. Katrina Brown, Dr. Declan Conway (supervisors)

Lead organizations: School of Development Studies and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

Partners: Centre for Global Studies, Canadian Institute for Climate Studies

Personnel involved: lead researcher

Funders: Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and University of East Anglia

Description: This thesis investigates both theoretical foundations of responses to climate change, and empirical evidence about individual responses from two case study communities on Canada's west coast. It aims to inform our understanding of adaptation to and mitigation of climate change with the perceptions of individuals. The goal is to answer the key question whether adaptation to climate change impacts and mitigation of future climate change through reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are linked.

Project Materials

Related papers:

Wolf, J. (2005) Climate Change and Individuals: Insights from a Q Method Study
in Southern British Columbia. Presented at 21st ISSSS Conference, 6-8 October
2005, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver.

Related links:

http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/climate/adaptation_2.htm