date: Thu Mar 13 15:33:36 2003
from: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: extreme events as catalysts
to: i.lorenzoni,s.nicholson-cole@uea.ac.uk,t.oriordan@uea.ac.uk,t.dockerty

   ... following on our questions and discussion at the seminar today - which, Irene and
   Sophie, I thought was superbly put together (well done!) - you might like to look at this
   research project from Clare Johnson at Middlesex flood hazard group being funded by the new
   ESRC Environment and Human Behaviour Programme:
   [1]http://www.psi.org.uk/ehb/projectsjohnson.html.
   I realise that changes in regulatory behaviour re. adaptation is not the same as changing
   underlying lifestyles and mitigation, but I still think for climate change we rely
   fundamentally on people's personal experiences - the more extreme the better - coinciding
   with scientific narratives giving meaning to those experiences in order to motivate
   behavioral change.
   Mike