Projected climate-change risk, urgency and necessary adaptations are perceived and understood differently by the public, communities, professional groups, climate scientists and public policy makers  . People can engage with climate change across three dimensions: cognitive , affective  and behavioural  . Risk assessment can be influenced by values regarding the subject under evaluation  and can interact with other risks and change over time . Communities and practitioners  are influenced in their willingness to modify current practices and adopt new measures based on how they perceive, understand and experience climate-change uncertainty, risk and urgency as well as political and social norms (van Putten
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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