Households’ perceptions and socio-economic determinants of climate change awareness: Evidence from Selangor Coast Malaysia
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Article Title | Households’ perceptions and socio-economic determinants of climate change awareness: Evidence from Selangor Coast Malaysia |
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ERA Journal ID | 5850 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Ehsan, Sofia, Begum, Rawshan Ara, Maulud, Khairul Nizam Abdul and Yaseen, Zaher Mundher |
Journal Title | Journal of Environmental Management |
Journal Citation | 316 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 0301-4797 |
1093-0191 | |
1095-8630 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115261 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479722008349 |
Abstract | Households living in the close vicinity of shoreline are constantly threatened by various climate change impacts. Community awareness towards climate change is a subject of considerable study as adequate knowledge is a preliminary step for adaptation decision making. An important question is how coastal communities perceive climatic variation, sea level rise and coastal hazard impacts and the socio-economic factors that affect their level of awareness. Thus, this research measures the level of awareness and the factors influencing it based on a household survey (n = 1016) that was conducted 10 critically eroded coastal areas in Selangor. Descriptive statistical analysis reveals that more than half of the households have high level of awareness about climatic variation and sea level, however, there is moderate awareness about the coastal hazard impacts such as human causalities and disease transmission. Even though households are more aware of direct coastal hazard impact such as damages to properties and disruption of daily activities. An independent sample T test indicates that respondents who are male, at working age, educated, involve in natural resource dependent occupations, and had prior exposure to extreme coastal hazards have higher levels of awareness. Research indicated about 55% of all sampled households reflected awareness of climate change, 60% households were aware of sea level rise and 47% households were aware of coastal hazard impact. This study recommends that households in Selangor coast need capacity building and climate change awareness initiatives which would assist household to build adaptive capacity, increase resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change. |
Keywords | Sea level rise ; Coastal areas ; Coastal hazards ; Socio-economic factors of awareness |
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Byline Affiliations | National University of Malaysia |
Macquarie University | |
School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing | |
Al-Ayen University, Iraq |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z01y1/households-perceptions-and-socio-economic-determinants-of-climate-change-awareness-evidence-from-selangor-coast-malaysia
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