Perception and understanding of climate change can be seen as an adaptive feature. In CSA, the awareness of climate change as a threat is increasing, a situation related to growth in climate justice activism and to the occurrence of extreme weather events of all kinds  . Perception of climate change is positively associated across countries with the HDI and ND-Gain Readiness Index and negatively associated with the Vulnerability Index and, within countries, with education level, while perception is negatively associated with the degree of political affinity for the market economy . However, some communities do not associate their problems with the scientific concept of climate change, so discussions on whether it is human induced and its causes or relationship with other problems can become irrelevant . Even communities affected by the same changes do not necessarily perceive them in the same way . The interpretations of change, as well as its causes and effects, can vary widely . Rather than adapting to climate change, some people adapt climate change to their social worlds .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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