The present paper adopts a social identity perspective to examine the relationship between community‐based identification and well‐being, resilience and willingness to pay back in the context of urban regeneration. A sample of 104 residents across five deprived urban areas in the southwest of England that have recently undergone or are about to undergo regeneration projects completed a survey. The results demonstrate that areas where a more community‐centred, bottom‐up, approach to regeneration was taken (i.e., ‘culture‐led’) showed higher levels of community cohesion than areas where the community dynamics were ignored (i.e., a ‘top‐down’ approach to regeneration). Increased community identification was linked to greater perceived social support, community‐esteem, personal self‐esteem and self‐efficacy. These psychological processes were, in turn, linked to increased resilience and well‐being, as well as a stronger willingness to pay back to the community. The results are consistent with the social identity approach. Implications for urban regeneration strategies are discussed.

The consequences of climate change and responses to climate change interact with multiple dimensions of human well-being in ways that are emerging or invisible to decision makers. We examine how elements of well-being-health, safety, place, self and belonging-are at risk from climate change. We propose that the material impacts of a changing climate, discourses and information on future and present climate risks, and policy responses to climate change affect all these elements of well-being. We review evidence on the scale and scope of these climate change consequences for well-being and propose policy and research priorities that are oriented towards supporting well-being though a changing climate.Climate change is altering environments and societies in ways that affect what it is to be human. Psychosocial theories of well-being explain how people's feelings and functions depend on the way they relate to and are enabled and constrained by their environmental and social circumstances. Here we focus on a major body of evidence that shows how these circumstances are increasingly being affected by climate change in direct and indirect ways.We provide a survey of recent developments in research that shows how climate change affects human well-being and will increasingly do so. These developments are based on well-established framings that underpin psychosocial descriptions of human well-being. We offer a model of how well-being may be affected by climate change and use this as a framework to structure our survey of the social science research on human experiences of climate change.The analysis here draws on social psychology and applied social science research on climate risks that uses diverse methods ranging from epidemiological investigations to economic assessments to ethnographic studies on sense making and place [1][2][3][4] . Many studies are implicit about the nature of well-being, focusing on elements that are self-evidently part of the overall picture, such as individual health, nutrition and the absence or presence of physical risks. Many climate risk assessments recognize the limited nature of climate goals and raise concerns about narrow conceptions of material well-being 5 . This concern about the omission of well-being from the objectives and scope of climate policy is reflected in wider political debates.The Sustainable Development Goals, for example, are explicit that health and well-being for all at every stage of life (SDG3) is an overarching goal of policy. Diverse proposals of alternative measures of desirable policy objectives, from happiness to resilient communities, suggest at their core that human well-being could and should be a central objective of climate change science and policy.Here we therefore explicitly focus on long-established models of human well-being that expand the scope of climate science and policy to include more than the material and physical dimensions of climate change 6 . In this way we explain how the direct impacts of climate change, information about climate risks, an...

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The present paper explores psychological processes that underpin the success of community change in the context of urban regeneration schemes. We adopt a social identity approach to develop an understanding of the ways in | 3EXPLORING THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF REGENERATED COMMUNITIES