Climate-Just Behavior : Foundations and Transformational Approaches Hardback
by Susanne (University of Greifswlad) Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne Nicolai
Part of the Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability series
Hardback
Description
This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis. This volume examines the barriers, opportunities and incentives around the pursuit of climate-just behavior, based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary and integrative analysis.
It investigates how the gap between expressing concern about the climate crisis and giving it a high priority within the context of everyday behaviour can be overcome.
At the same time, it looks at the challenging politico-economic framework conditions such as the strong economic growth and profit orientation of capitalism.
Although justice is a fundamental human motive, which should induce climate just behavior, system justification is common and makes people rather justify their unjust behavior.
In this book, a general and systemic framework on human behavior is provided, including internal factors, such as knowledge and psychological needs, external factors, such as socio-cultural and politico-economic factors, feedback loops and interactions.
The authors draw on multiple theories to examine how denial and moral disengagement affects individual responsibility, despite real-world evidence of the climate crisis.
The book highlights the role of emotions in encouraging a pro-environmental response, and discusses solutions on both the individual and the collective level, such as transparency laws.
Moreover, making climate-friendly options more accessible, affordable, and convenient facilitates behavior change more effectively.
Overall, this book presents knowledge-based, realistic approaches to surmounting these obstacles in order to achieve a more climate-just world. Climate-Just Behavior will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice, environmental geography and environmental psychology.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:144 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:19/06/2024
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- ISBN:9780367471163
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:144 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:19/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367471163
