Research On Urban Risk Perception Of Climate Change And Travel Mode

With the effects of climate change are significant increasingly, it is very urgent to response to climate change in recent years. Risk perception of climate change is a prerequisite for an effective response to climate change, whether urban risk perception of climate change will affect individual put behavior response to climate change into practice and chose low carbon travel mode? Based on620survey data of urban residents, this paper explored the impact what the urban risk perception of climate change on their personal response to climate change behavior from travel mode and private car use frequency by using descriptive statistics, Logistic regression model, Partial least squares regression and other methods. Study showed that:(1) urban climate change risk perception and willingess to act all showed a higher level. However, there are differences between individual of different attributes. Urban climate change risk awareness and willingness to act positively correlated, the higher awareness level, the higher willingness to act;(2) urban risk perception of climate change had no positive impact on travel mode and private car use frequency. That is, urban climate change risk awareness and willingness to act have not been effectively transformed in their daily lives;(3) the convenience of public transportation is a key factor in selecting travel mode and reducing private car use frequency. Based on the findings, this paper suggested the government to further strengthen the popular science propaganda related the micro response to climate change, in order to enhance the public responsibility. In addition, it is still necessary to develop public transportation vigorously and improve the service level.The innovation of this paper is that this study explored the effects of urban resident climate change risk perception on specific behaviors what respond to climate change, selected urban residents as research subject, travel mode and private car use frequency as the typical representative of daily behavior. This research has a certain reference value for government to address climate change and improve resent participation, development of low-carbon cities.