Workshop on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Response Barrier: Gap between Information and Daily Life.

Possible Leverage Point: Impact Assessments, Disaster Preparedness, and Mitigation

Encourage planning at community, state and federal levels.

The development of impact assessments, disaster preparedness, and mitigation planning may serve to
make climate information “real,” bringing it close to home. These actions are predicted to reduce the gap between
such information and daily life, decrease the sense of a double reality, and bring home the impacts in economic,
infrastructure, and physical terms.