ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces human climate or socioecological framework comprised of three linked concepts, 'anthropogenic climate turmoil', 'ecocrisis or pluralea interactions', and 'environmental unpredictability' and the associated concepts of 'perceived precarity' and 'vulnerability'. Anthropogenic climate changes will significantly amplify the vulnerability of human communities while lowering people's sense of everyday and future security, disproportionately among those that are already poor, and especially the very poorest households in all communities. Anthropologist Robert Weller has introduced the concept of "environmental consciousness". It has been a presumption of environmental studies that people only come to develop concerns about the environment if their basic subsistence needs are being met. At the national and international levels, there is growing emphasis, especially in the worlds of global health services and humanitarian aid, on developing methodologies for enhancing community resilience, including the ability to prepare both for natural or other shocks and for enhanced capacity for so-called "bouncebackability" after adverse events occur.
