Browsing Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi by Author "van Niekerk, Dewald"

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  • Challenges to belief systems in the context of climate change adaptation 
    Jooste, Brechtje S; Dokken, Jon Vegard; van Niekerk, Dewald; Loubser, Ruth A (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    This article focuses on the social aspects of climate change and explores the interrelationship between belief systems and adaptation. The links and interaction between external and internal realities are examined from the ...
  • Cultural beliefs of time orientation and social self-construal: Influences on climate change adaptation 
    Terblanche-Greeff, Aida C; Dokken, Jon Vegard; van Niekerk, Dewald; Loubser, Ruth A (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Climate change is one of the greatest challenges humankind faces and adaptive behaviour is an imperative response to such change. Culture and the resulting worldview are determinants of behaviour and eminent cultural beliefs ...
  • Religious beliefs and climate change adaptation: A study of three rural South African communities 
    Schuman, Simone; Dokken, Jon Vegard; van Niekerk, Dewald; Loubser, Ruth A. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    This article argues that religious beliefs significantly influence a community’s understanding and experience of climate change adaptation, indicating the need for an inclusion of such information in climate change adaptation ...