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Climate-Just Behavior
Foundations and Transformational Approaches
Susanne Stoll-Kleemann,Susanne Nicolai
- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Climate-Just Behavior
Foundations and Transformational Approaches
Susanne Stoll-Kleemann,Susanne Nicolai
About This Book
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 behavior 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 affect 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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- 1 Overview and Introduction
- 2 A Psychological Perspective on Justice and Injustice
- 3 The Complexity of Human Behavior and What This Means for Explaining Climate-Related Behavior
- 4 Justifying Climate-Unjust Individual Behavior: Barriers to Climate Action as Moral Disengagement and Other Forms of Justification
- 5 Toward Climate-Just Behavior: Addressing and Overcoming the Identified Barriers
- Index