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Authorship
Reyes-García, Victoria
;
Emmanuel M.N.A.N. ATTOH
;
Christopher BARRINGTON-LEIGH
;
Petra BENYEI
;
Laura CALVET-MIR
;
Rumbidzayi CHAKAUYA
;
Abdullah Al FAISAL
;
Eric D. Galbraith
;
Marcos GLAUSER
;
IZQUIERDO, ANDREA ELISA
;
André B. JUNQUEIRA
;
Xiaoyue Li
;
Yolanda LÓPEZ-MALDONADO
;
Sara Miñarro
;
Vincent Porcher
;
Anna Porcuna-Ferrer
;
Anna Schlingmann
;
Priyatma Singh
;
Miquel Torrents-Ticó
Date
2025
Publishing House and Editing Place
British Ecological Society
Magazine
People and Nature
- ISSN 2575-8314
British Ecological Society
British Ecological Society
ISSN
2575-8314
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1. Climate change profoundly affects well-being in complex and interconnected ways.However, the relationship between climate change and well-being has been explored inonly a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized.2. Here, we investigate the association between perceived climate change impacts, theirseverity, and subjective well-being (measured as life satisfaction) using cross-culturallycomparable first-hand reports from 2,488 participants across 14 nature-dependentcommunities.3....
1. Climate change profoundly affects well-being in complex and interconnected ways.However, the relationship between climate change and well-being has been explored inonly a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized.2. Here, we investigate the association between perceived climate change impacts, theirseverity, and subjective well-being (measured as life satisfaction) using cross-culturallycomparable first-hand reports from 2,488 participants across 14 nature-dependentcommunities.3. We find a negative association between site-aggregated life satisfaction and threemetrics of climate change: perceptions of local impacts, reported severity, and aninstrumental index.4. Within sites, individual-level associations between perceived severity of climatechange impacts and life satisfaction are weak or absent, which could indicate that thebetween-site correlation reflects the overall exposure and vulnerability of each site toclimate change. Further analysis suggests that site-level characteristics play a crucialrole in shaping these patterns.5. Our findings offer a nuanced understanding of how climate change impacts relate towell-being, emphasize the multi-dimensional character of climate change impacts andunderscoring the importance of local context in shaping these relationships.
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Key Words
CLIMATE CHANGE PERCEPTIONCROSS-CULTURAL STUDIESINDIGENOUS PEOPLELIFE SATISFACTION