Research On Adaptation To Climate Change Based On Human-earth Relationships Perception

The global climate has significantly warmed because the greenhouse gas which was mainly emitted by human in recent hundred years, according the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report. As earth’s climate continues to warm, extreme climate events have increasingly occurred, climate hazards are also increased in the future. However, the consensus of how to cope the hazards which was caused by climate change has not yet reached by the international community. The substantial reductions of greenhouse gas emissions will take time, and the trend of global warming was not controlled in the short time even though the substantial reductions were taken. In this context, recognizing climate, adapting climate, and taking advantage of climate have become a necessary choice for the current climate policy.This dissertation took the residents of Xianyang city, Shanxi Province as the study subjects, adopting the questionnaire method to collect data, which aiming to measure the differences among the residents on human-earth relationship perception, climate change perception, climate change response willingness and climate change response behavior and the relationships among the latent variables. Firstly, to establish the survey scale of latent in preliminary on the basis of extensive literature research, and then adopting the SPSS21, LISREL8.80 and R language to assess the reliability, validity and dimension of survey scale and the fit goodness of the model. Second, removing some unsuitable items according to the assessed results, and the revised model has reached a generally criteria of goodness of fit. At last, according to the revised survey scale, using the analysis of means to analyse the differences of residents among the latent variables, and using the structural model of structural equation modeling to analyze the causal relationships among the latent variables.The study results showed that:(1) according to the investigation about the demographic statistical characteristics, career has an statistical significant effect on human-earth relationship perception; age and educational level have statistical significant effect on climate warming perception; age, educational level and career have statistical significant effect on climate change causes perception; age, educational level, career, salary, and the balance situation of payments have statistical significant effect on climate change consequences perception; gender and career have statistical significant effect on climate change response willingness; gender, educational level, and the balance situation of payments have statistical significant effect on climate change response behavior.(2) The public prefer to awing the nature which has a significant effect on climate change perception, response willingness and behavior.(3) The public can generally perceive the fact that climate grows warmer, which has a significant effect on climate change response willingness and behavior.(4) The public generally have a right cause cognitive on climate change which has a significant effect on climate change consequence perception, response willingness and behavior; the climate change response is active.(5) The public generally think that the consequences taken by climate change are adverse and serious, the consequences perception has a negative direct effect on response willingness and has a positive direct significant effect on behavior, but has an indirect negative effect on response behavior through response willingness, at last, the total effect value is not significant in statistical.(6) The public are generally willing to deal with the climate change, and have frequent response behavior, whose response willingness has a significant effect on response behavior.