The relationship between Collective Transilience and Community-based Adaptation

1. Background:<br>
The negative impacts of climate change are increasingly visible. People can take different actions that may help to protect their communities from climate change risks, such as joining a community initiative that aims to protect their neighbourhood from the negative impacts of floods and heatwaves, or voice their support for local policies that reduce vulnerability to climate change risks. We studied what motivates people to take actions to protect their community from climate change risks.<br>
2. Why was this study done? <br>
We examined how collective transilience, that reflects the extent to which people perceive they can persist, adapt flexibly, and change for the better as a community in the face of climate change, is related to the likelihood that people engage in actions to protect their community from climate change risks. We further examined whether higher collective transilience is more strongly associated with actions to protect one’s community from climate change risks than individual transilience (i.e., the extent to which people believe they as an individual can persist, adapt flexibly, and change for the better in the face of climate change). <br>
3. What did the researchers do and find? <br>
We conducted two studies, one in The United States and one in The Netherlands. We found that people do think they can persist, adapt flexibly, and positively transform as a community in the face of climate change. Yet, they are generally not very likely to engage in actions that may protect their community against climate change risks. As expected, higher transilience was related to stronger intentions to engage in a variety of behaviours that can protect one’s community and oneself from climate change risks. Interestingly, collective transilience was found to better predict intentions to adapt (both at the individual and at the community level) than individual transilience, suggesting that the extent to which people believe their community can persist, adapt flexibly, and positively transform can promote a wide range of adaptation behaviours. <br>
4. What do these findings mean?<br>
Our findings bring a positive perspective by showing that humans think they have the capacity to adapt and even thrive as a community when adapting to climate change, and the higher this collective transilience, the more likely they are to engage in climate adaptation actions. Future research can examine which factors strengthen collective transilience, and encourage people to engage in actions to protect both themselves and their community from climate change risks, and change for the better.
We provide the data and the scripts used to conduct all main analyses reported in the published manuscript.<br>

1. 背景：<br>气候变化的负面影响日益凸显。人们可采取各类行动以保护所在社区免受气候变化风险的冲击，例如加入旨在保护邻里免受洪涝与热浪负面影响的社区倡议，或是发声支持能够降低气候变化风险脆弱性的地方政策。本研究旨在探究促使人们采取行动保护社区免受气候变化风险影响的动机因素。<br>2. 为何开展此项研究？<br>本研究考察了集体抗逆韧性（collective transilience）——即人们感知到自身作为一个集体在面对气候变化时能够持续存续、灵活调适并向好变革的程度——与人们采取行动保护社区免受气候变化风险的可能性之间的关联。此外，本研究进一步验证了，相较于个体抗逆韧性（individual transilience，即人们认为自身作为个体在面对气候变化时能够持续存续、灵活调适并向好变革的程度），更高水平的集体抗逆韧性是否与社区气候保护行动的关联更为紧密。<br>3. 研究人员开展了哪些工作并取得了何种发现？<br>本研究共开展两项实地研究，分别在美国与荷兰进行。研究结果显示，人们普遍认为自身所在社区在面对气候变化时能够持续存续、灵活调适并实现积极变革。然而总体而言，人们并不太愿意采取能够保护社区免受气候变化风险冲击的行动。正如预期，更高水平的抗逆韧性与人们参与各类可保护社区及自身免受气候变化风险影响的行为的意向呈显著正相关。值得注意的是，相较于个体抗逆韧性，集体抗逆韧性能够更好地预测人们的适应行为意向（涵盖个体层面与社区层面的适应行为），这表明人们对社区能够持续存续、灵活调适并实现积极变革的信念程度，能够推动一系列适应行为的产生。<br>4. 本研究发现有何意义？<br>本研究的发现为气候变化适应领域带来了积极视角：研究表明，人们认为自身作为集体在适应气候变化时具备适应乃至蓬勃发展的能力，且集体抗逆韧性水平越高，人们越有可能参与气候适应行动。未来研究可进一步探究能够强化集体抗逆韧性的影响因素，并鼓励人们采取行动保护自身与社区免受气候变化风险冲击，推动社会向好变革。<br>本研究提供了发表论文中所有主要分析所使用的数据集与代码脚本。<br>