
Psychology and Climate Change
Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses
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Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Researchers and students who study environmental psychology, social psychology, behavior change, and environmental studies. A secondary market for those who make policy regarding climate change
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Psychology and climate change
Susan Clayton and Christie ManningPart 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. SchuldtPart 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 SchultePart 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 312
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: June 5, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128131312
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128131305
About the Editors
Susan Clayton
Affiliations and Expertise
Christie Manning
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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BernardFournier Thu Jan 30 2020
Really good, original!
Really good, original!