Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses
- ISBN-10
- 0128131314
- ISBN-13
- 9780128131312
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-06-05
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Authors
- Susan Clayton, Christie Manning
Description
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. Further, it considers the role of social diversity in shaping vulnerability and reactions to climate change. Psychology and Climate Change describes the implications of psychological processes such as perceptions and motivations (e.g., risk perception, motivated cognition, denial), emotional responses, group identities, mental health and well-being, sense of place, and behavior (mitigation and adaptation). The book strives to engage diverse stakeholders, from multiple disciplines in addition to psychology, and at every level of decision making - individual, community, national, and international, to understand the ways in which human capabilities and tendencies can and should shape policy and action to address the urgent and very real issue of climate change. 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
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2018-06-21
- 312 pages
- Paperback
- Academic Press
Similar books
-
Depth Psychology and Climate Change: The Green Book
By Dale MathersThis book will be essential reading for analytical psychologists, Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, as well as academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies.
-
The Psychology of Climate Change
By Geoff Beattie, Laura McGuireThis book offers a psychological perspective on the current thinking on climate change, an issue of major global importance.
-
Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster
By Paul HoggettIn A. Chesner & H. Hahn (Eds.), Creative advances in groupwork (pp. 186–216). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. King, D. (2005). Sustaining activism through emotional reflexivity. In H. Flam & D. King (Eds.), Emotions and social ...
-
The Cognitive Psychology of Climate Change
By Patrik Sörqvist, John E. MarshClimate change is one of society’s great challenges. The scientific community agrees that human activity is to a large degree responsible for these changes and efforts to promote more sustainable behaviors and lifestyles often backfire.
-
What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action
By Per Espen Stoknes“The Climate Swerve.” New York Times, August 23, 2014. http://www.nytimes. com/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/the-climate-swerve.html?_r=1. Lindzey, Gardner, and Elliot Aronson (eds.). Handbook of Social Psychology. 3rd ed.
-
The Psychology of Environmental Law
By Arden Rowell, Kenworthey BilzThe Psychology of Environmental Law provides key insights regarding how psychology can inform, explain, and improve how environmental law operates.
-
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
By Sally WeintrobeThis book explores what climate change means to people. It brings members of a range of disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion, introducing a psychoanalytic perspective.
-
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
By George MarshallThe director of the Climate Outreach and Information Network explores the psychological mechanism that enables people to ignore the dangers of climate change, using sidebars, cartoons and engaging stories from his years of research to ...
-
Climate Change and Human Well-Being: Global Challenges and Opportunities
By Inka WeissbeckerThis book outlines areas of impact on human well being, consider specific populations, and shed light on mitigating the impact of climate change.
-
Climate Change and Human Behavior: Impacts of a Rapidly Changing Climate on Human Aggression and Violence
By Craig A. Anderson, Andreas Miles-NoveloWe also look at previously established psychological effects and use them to help explain changes in human behavior resulting from rapid climate change, as well as to propose actions that can be taken to reduce climate change itself and ...