Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well-being-Evidence from 14 nature-dependent communities

Climate change profoundly affects well-being in complex and interconnected ways. However, the relationship between climate change and well-being has been explored in only a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized. Here, we investigate the association between perceived climate change im...

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Autores: Reyes-García, Victoria|||0000-0002-2914-8055, Attoh, Emmanuel M.N.A.N.|||0000-0001-6527-852X, Barrington-Leigh, Christopher|||0000-0002-3929-5390, Benyei, Petra|||0000-0001-7540-5772, Calvet-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-7022-6342, Chakauya, Rumbidzayi, Al Faisal, Abdullah, Galbraith, Eric D.|||0000-0003-4476-4232, Glauser, Marcos, Izquierdo, Andrea E., Junqueira, André B.|||0000-0003-3681-1705, Li, Xiaoyue|||0000-0001-8059-1127, López-Maldonado, Yolanda|||0000-0002-0775-4919, Miñarro, Sara|||0000-0001-8243-8652, Porcher, Vincent|||0000-0003-2879-6728, Porcuna Ferrer, Anna|||0000-0003-3887-9914, Schlingmann, Anna|||0000-0002-2521-4860, Singh, Priyatma, Torrents-Ticó, Miquel|||0000-0002-6580-5016
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:324072
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/324072
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1002/pan3.70230
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Climate change perception
Cross-cultural studies
Indigenous Peoples
Life satisfaction
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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Resumo:Climate change profoundly affects well-being in complex and interconnected ways. However, the relationship between climate change and well-being has been explored in only a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized. Here, we investigate the association between perceived climate change impacts, their severity and subjective well-being (measured as life satisfaction) using cross-culturally comparable first-hand reports from 2488 participants across 14 nature-dependent communities. We find a negative association between site-aggregated life satisfaction and different metrics of climate change: perceptions of local impacts, reported severity and instrumental measurements. Within sites, individual-level associations between perceived severity of climate change impacts and life satisfaction are weak or absent. Further analysis suggests that site-level characteristics play a crucial role in shaping these patterns. This could indicate that it is the overall vulnerability and exposure of a community to climate change impacts, rather than individual experiences that matters most. Our findings offer a nuanced understanding of how climate change impacts relate to well-being, emphasizing the multidimensional character of climate change impacts and underscoring the importance of local context in shaping these relationships.

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