Psychologists and Climate Change: What Vision Should Guide Us, and How and With Whom Do We Get There?

Gurtner, Lilla (31 May 2024). Psychologists and Climate Change: What Vision Should Guide Us, and How and With Whom Do We Get There? Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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Climate change is an existential risk for humankind. Environmental psychologists concerned about climate change have so far focused mainly on understanding and promoting environmentally friendly behavior of individuals. This results in knowledge about easy-to-research but low-impact behaviors and falls short of the impact that psychology could have on broader societal transformation. To develop this impact, we focused on answers psychology might offer to questions raised by transformation studies, which explore how innovations in niches change the incumbent, dominant system.
With respect to climate change, what does psychology have to say about how we can transform a system that exploits and degrades the environment and puts human survival at risk? The first step to answering this question is articulating a vision, the goal towards which we should be heading.

Item Type:	Other
Division/Institute:	10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
UniBE Contributor:	Gurtner, Lilla
Subjects:	500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
Publisher:	Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Projects:	[804] Socio-Economic Transition
Language:	English
Submitter:	Melchior Peter Nussbaumer
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2024 14:07
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2024 14:07
Additional Information:	Blog
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/197912