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SAGE Open | 2017

A Five-Steps Methodology to Design Communication Formats That Can Contribute to Behavior Change: The Example of Communication for Health-Protective Behavior Among Elderly During Heat Waves

Torsten Grothmann; Markus Leitner; Natalie Glas; Andrea Prutsch

Communication measures can raise protective behavior regarding climate change, natural hazards, and other health risks. For being effective in such communication, we designed a five-steps methodology and applied it to health-protective behavior during heat extremes in Austria. The five steps are as follows: (1) target group selection, a multicriteria assessment (MCA) to identify the most important target group(s)—this led to the identification of mobile health care nurses as our primary target group; (2) target group analysis by interviews to identify drivers of and barriers to protective behavior—for the mobile health care nurses, the drivers were their climate change perceptions, control beliefs, perceptions of role models, and extent of thinking about heat and health, and the barriers were fatalism and work stress; (3) development of target group specific communication formats addressing the identified drivers and barriers—for the nurses, we designed a workshop format, animated videos, and two print formats; (4) pretest of formats in focus groups—these revealed our formats were effective in increasing heat risk awareness, competence, and protective behavior among the nurses; (5) improvement of formats based on pretest results—for example, we modified the workshop format to become a venue for mutual learning. These five steps can be applied to other projects where awareness, competence, or behavior shall be increased by means of communication.


Archive | 2011

Governance Recommendations for Adaptation in European Urban Regions: Results from Five Case Studies and a European Expert Survey

Torsten Grothmann

This paper develops governance recommendations for urban adaptation strategies based on case studies in urban regions of five European countries, a European expert survey on guiding principles for adaptation to climate change (including more than 250 experts from all EU countries) and literature on adaptation to climate change. The case studies show that adaptation to climate change is influenced by social factors such as education, skills, values, perceptions, interests, customs, stakeholder participation and the cooperative structures between different sectors, communities, regions and policy levels. Social factors should therefore be explicitly addressed in adaptation strategies; if not taken into account, they can become significant barriers to adaptation. To adequately address social factors, every adaptation strategy should include learning, cooperation and communication strategies, which are best formulated at the local level.


Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions | 2005

Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change

Torsten Grothmann; Anthony Patt


Natural Hazards | 2006

People at Risk of Flooding: Why Some Residents Take Precautionary Action While Others Do Not

Torsten Grothmann; Fritz Reusswig


International Environmental Agreements-politics Law and Economics | 2010

The role of social learning in adaptiveness: insights from water management

Louis Lebel; Torsten Grothmann; Bernd Siebenhüner


Archive | 2005

Climate Change in Germany - Vulnerability and Adaptation of Climate-Sensitive Sectors

D. Schröter; M. Zebisch; Torsten Grothmann


Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences | 2013

Assessing institutional capacities to adapt to climate change: integrating psychological dimensions in the Adaptive Capacity Wheel

Torsten Grothmann; Kevin Grecksch; Maik Winges; Bernd Siebenhüner


Guiding principles for adaptation to climate change in Europe. | 2010

Guiding principles for adaptation to climate change in Europe.

Andrea Prutsch; Torsten Grothmann; I. Schauser; S. Otto; S. McCallum


Managers of Global Change - The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies | 2009

Studying the influence of international bureaucracies. A conceptual framework

Frank Biermann; Bernd Siebenhüner; Steffen Bauer; Per-Olof Busch; S. Campe; Klaus Dingwerth; Torsten Grothmann; Robert Marschinski; M. Taradell


Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences | 2013

Assessing social capacity and vulnerability of private households to natural hazards – integrating psychological and governance factors

J. Werg; Torsten Grothmann; P. Schmidt

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Maik Winges

University of Oldenburg

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Christoph Görg

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

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Fritz Reusswig

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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J. Werg

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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