The formulation and implementation of policies addressing the need to adapt to climate change can be difficult due to the long-term, uncertain nature of localised climate change impacts and associated vulnerabilities. Difficulties are intensified because policy interventions can involve high costs, foregone opportunity and changes to people's way of life. Factors such as these can spur an uncritical, or reflexive, negativity regarding efforts to address the projected impacts of climate change. Such reflexive negativity is often trivialised in pejorative terms, such as 'Nimbyism'. However, stakeholder reluctance to accept the need for adaptation planning may be strongly influenced by self-perceptions that are resistant to change. People's sense of self and sense of place may contribute to an 'imaginative intangibility' with respect to climate adaptation, blocking thoughtful reflection and deliberation regarding alternative approaches and providing rationales for cheating the system once implemented. If acknowledged and addressed in a sensitive manner, it may be possible to manage these self-perceptions to elevate public discourse about climate change and help create situationally appropriate adaptation policy regimes.

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自我认同与地方感：关于气候变化适应政策制定的一些思考

由于局部气候变化影响和相关脆弱性的长期、不确定性，制定和实施满足适应气候变化需求的政策可能很困难。困难加剧，因为政策干预可能涉及高成本、放弃机会和改变人们的生活方式。诸如此类的因素可能会激起人们对解决气候变化预计影响的努力的不加批判或反思性的消极态度。这种反身否定通常被贬低为贬义词，例如“Nimbyism”。然而，利益相关者不愿接受适应规划的需要可能会受到抵制变革的自我认知的强烈影响。人们的自我意识和地方感可能有助于“想象的无形” 关于气候适应，阻止对替代方法的深思熟虑的反思和审议，并为一旦实施后欺骗系统提供理由。如果以一种敏感的方式得到承认和解决，就有可能管理这些自我认知，以提升公众对气候变化的讨论，并帮助制定适合情况的适应政策制度。