ISBN:
9781003033547
,
1003033547
,
9781040116067
,
104011606X
,
1040116043
,
9781040116043
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (114 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
Routledge focus on environment and sustainability
Series Statement:
Routledge focus on environment and sustainability.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne. Climate-just behavior
DDC:
304.2/8019
Keywords:
Climate justice.
;
Justice climatique.
;
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
A psychological perspective on justice and injustice -- The complexity of human behavior and what this means for explaining climate related behavior -- Justifying climate-unjust individual behavior : barriers to climate action as moral disengagement and lack of moral development -- Towards climate just behavior : addressing and overcoming the identified barriers.
Note:
"Routledge focus" - from cover
,
"Earthscan from Routledge" - title page.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003033547
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003033547
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