DOI: 10.1002/wcc.106
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-79961215477
论文题名: Coping with the immediate experience of climate: Regional variations and indoor trajectories
作者: Hitchings R
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2011
卷: 2, 期: 2 起始页码: 170
结束页码: 184
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Air conditioning
; Atmospheric temperature
; Ambient air
; Cultural difference
; Energy demands
; Human comforts
; Local climate
; Outdoor temperature
; Regional variation
; Thermal environment
; Space heating
英文摘要: This article reviews work from across various disciplines that illuminates the changing ways in which people around the world manage their experience of local climate with particular reference to temperature. This topic is important because it has implications for issues that range from the rising energy demands associated with the spread of air-conditioning to the idea that future societies may eventually forget about the climates outside the buildings into which they have retreated. My purpose is neither to critique the various ways of conceptualizing the relation between human comfort and thermal environment nor to champion any particular argument about the mechanism that guides its development over time. Rather the aim is to integrate a diverse set of studies into an evaluative account that foregrounds the cultural differences and geographical dynamics now characterizing the ways in which people relate to outdoor temperature. Many of us now spend a great deal of our time surrounded by controlled bodies of ambient air which may superficially seem appropriately civilized. Yet this same situation could easily end up making us less willing to experience our local climates and more reliant on some quite resource hungry technologies. Changing practices of coping with outdoor temperature should be examined further. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76456
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of Geography, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Hitchings R. Coping with the immediate experience of climate: Regional variations and indoor trajectories[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2011-01-01,2(2)