Last edition Elsevier Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses organizes and summarizes recent psychological research that relates to the issue of climate change. The book covers topics such as how people perceive and respond to climate change, how people understand and communicate about the issue, how it impacts individuals and communities, particularly vulnerable communities, and how individuals and communities can best prepare for and mitigate negative climate change impacts. It addresses the topic at multiple scales, from individuals to close social networks and communities.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9780128131305
Imprint: Elsevier
Language: English
Authors: Susan Clayton
Pub Date: 06/2018
Pages: 312
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 500.000 grams
Size: h 152 X 229 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • Examines the role of knowledge, norms, experience, and social context in climate change awareness and action
- • Considers the role of identity threat, identity-based motivation, and belonging
- • Presents a conceptual framework for classifying individual and household behavior
- • Develops a model to explain environmentally sustainable behavior
- • Draws on what we know about participation in collective action
- • Describes ways to improve the effectiveness of climate change communication efforts
- • Discusses the difference between acute climate change events and slowly-emerging changes on our mental health
- • Addresses psychological stress and injury related to global climate change from an intersectional justice perspective
- • Promotes individual and community resilience
- Susan Clayton, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, The College of Wooster and Christie Manning, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies and Department of Psychology Associate Director, Educating Sustainability Ambassadors Macalester College
- 1. Introduction: Psychology and climate change Susan Clayton and Christie Manning
- Part I: Perceptions and Communication
- 2. Perceptions of climate change Lorraine Whitmarsh and Stuart Capstick 3. Climate change communication: Challenges, insights, and opportunities Ezra M. Markowitz and Meaghan L. Guckian 4. Social construction of scientifically grounded climate change discussions Janet K. Swim, Nathaniel Geiger, Julie Sweetland and John Fraser 5. A diversity science approach to climate change Adam R. Pearson and Jonathon P. Schuldt
- Part II: Responding to Climate Change
- 6. Understanding responses to climate change: Psychological barriers to mitigation and a new theory of behavioral choice Robert Gifford, Karine Lacroix and Angel Chen 7. Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change: Opportunities through consumer behavior Kimberly S. Wolske and Paul C. Stern 8. Environmental protection through societal change: What psychology knows about collective climate action and what it needs to find out Sebastian Bamberg, Jonas Rees and Maxie Schulte
- Part III: Wellbeing and Resilience
- 9. Threats to mental health and wellbeing associated with climate change Christie Manning and Susan Clayton 10. Individual impacts and resilience Thomas J. Doherty 11. Psychological perspectives on community resilience and climate change: Insights, examples, and directions for future research Daniel A. Chapman, Carlie D. Trott, Linda Silka, Brian Lickel and Susan Clayton
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