Different actors seek to advance certain interpretations of climate change based on their particular interests.
Cultural interpretations of climate change and hazards are constructed differently across various societies.
We use Values Beliefs Norms theory to construct multivariate models of the relationship between ground water irrigators' interpretations of climate change risks and their implementation of adaptive water conservation practices.
In both, local cosmology, Buddhist precepts, and contemporary materialistic views, are pieced together in different configurations and related to salient aspects of people's lives – a pattern that Salick et al. (2012) also found in Tibetan interpretations of climate change.
Republicans in the so-called "spin room" opposed Obama's approach to nuclear negotiations with Iran, rejected his interpretation of the science of climate change and opposed his redistributive tax policies.
This could be achieved by the integration of land use dynamics in the interpretation of the temporal variation of climate change indicators at the local community level.
Issues identified under this interpretation include inter alia the health effects of climate change, global lifestyle changes, and the impact of global trade on health (19).
In more analytically luxuriant times, political scientists debated some of the very questions raised by Coburn in much the same way that, before the denial of climate change, certain philosophers of science argued that all science is interpretation.
To cast Bolivia and other developing nations that are already suffering the brunt of climate change as playing the "role of spoiler" in Copenhagen climate talks last year is a strange interpretation of events.
Set aside the issue of climate change.
