Psychology's essential role in alleviating the impacts of climate change.

Gifford, Robert

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“…A body of research since the 1970s has focused specifically on developing and testing theories of environmentally significant behavior (ESB), sometimes referred to as proenvironmental behavior (PEB) (Darnton, 2008;Gardner & Stern, 2002;Geller, Winett, & Everett, 1982;Gifford, 2008;Stern, 2000a;Stern & Gardner, 1981;Wilson & Dietz et al (2009). b Emissions reduction that would be achieved if all households that have not taken the action adopted it, corrected for double counting (e.g., changes in thermostat settings have a smaller effect if the household has also added insulation) and measured in millions of metric tons of carbon (MTC).…”

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Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

Stern¹

2011

American Psychologist

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Council, 2010a). The human activities that directly produce physical changes in Earth's heat balance, such as burning fossil fuels, clearing forests, and raising cattle, are driven in turn by other human activities, including government policies, the growth and migration of human populations, economic and technological development, and the behavior of individuals and households as consumers, members of organizations, and citizens. These actions are influenced in turn by human attitudes, predispositions, beliefs, and social and economic structures (National Research Council, 1992; Swim et al., 2011, this issue). This article discusses what psychology has contributed and can contribute to limiting the magnitude of climate change by altering the human activities that affect it. A Framework for Psychological ContributionsPsychology can contribute to limiting climate change by improving understanding of climate-relevant individual, household, and organizational behaviors that affect climate change and the many personal, social, economic, institutional, policy, and social-structural factors that affect these behaviors, as well as by helping devise ways to turn that understanding into effective interventions. Most of the efforts of psychologists, and most of this review, focus on consumer behaviors. These can be conveniently divided into choices that affect emissions of greenhouse gases directly through household purchases of energy and choices that affect emissions indirectly through the purchase of goods and services that affect the climate through their production, distribution, and disposal. This article focuses mainly on the direct effects because they are large (about 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States; Bin & Dowlatabadi, 2005) and because more is known about the behavioral factors that drive those emissions. It also briefly discusses psychological factors in organizational behavior and in acceptance of policies and technologies.

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Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

Stern¹

2011

American Psychologist

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“…The challenges posed by issues like global climate change have prompted calls for psychologists' attention to the reciprocal and structural relationships between human health and the health and integrity of the natural environment (Clayton & Myers, 2009;Gifford, 2008;Roszak, Gomes, & Kanner, 1995;Uzzell & Räthzel, 2009). We believe that ecological literacy (Orr, 1992), an understanding of how natural systems affect each other and particularly of how anthropogenic causes can lead to indirect and unpredictable effects on the earth's climate, should be incorporated into every professional discipline that is concerned with the well-being of any part of those systems.…”

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The psychological impacts of global climate change.

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Clayton²

2011

American Psychologist

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“…Nesse cenário, as evidências científicas sobre o papel humano no problema são cada vez mais conhecidas e consensuais (Gifford, 2008;Weber & Stern, 2011;Clayton et al, 2015). O Painel Intergovernamental de Mudanças Climáticas, ou Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014), destaca que as recentes emissões antropogênicas de gases de efeito estufa são as mais altas da história.…”

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“…Afinal, podem contribuir para o estímulo aos comportamentos pró-ecológicos e a ações que visem mitigar as MCGs, por exemplo. Podem, ainda, fornecer diretrizes para a implementação de projetos que visem à comunicação adequada sobre o assunto e para a aceitação de políticas públicas com vistas ao combate às MCGs (Gifford, 2008;Swim et al, 2009).…”

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Mudanças climáticas globais e o cuidado ambiental na percepção de adolescentes: uma aproximação possível

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Pinheiro

2017

Desenvolv. Meio Ambiente

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Artigo recebido em 29 de outubro de 2016, versão final aceita em 5 de fevereiro de 2017. RESUMO:As evidências científicas da existência das mudanças climáticas globais (MCGs) são cada vez mais conhecidas, correspondendo a um problema humano-ambiental com dimensões psicológicas e sociais tanto em seu agravamento quanto em seus impactos. Este estudo objetivou investigar a percepção das MCGs por adolescentes e sua associação com práticas de cuidado ambiental autorrelatadas. Para tanto, aplicou-se um questionário, com questões abertas, a 323 adolescentes de escolas da cidade de Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Os dados foram submetidos a análise temática de conteúdo e a análises estatísticas, a fim de investigar associações entre as variáveis. A percepção das MCGs foi considerada confusa; os adolescentes as percebem como um problema ambiental genérico e as confundem com outros problemas, como a poluição pelo acúmulo de lixo. Sobre o cuidado ambiental, 46% afirmaram praticá-lo, havendo pouca variação entre os tipos de ações mencionadas. A ação mais citada foi relativa ao controle do lixo. Os adolescentes que mencionaram praticar essas ações, assim como práticas de coleta seletiva e reciclagem, foram os que mais mencionaram causas do problema das MCGs, o que sugere que eles as percebem de maneira associada à temática do lixo. Além disso, os adolescentes que mais indicaram responsáveis pela ocorrência das MCGs foram os que relataram se engajar em ações de plantação de mudas, economia de energia elétrica e campanhas de conscientização, sugerindo a existência de associações entre a atribuição de responsabilidade pelas MCGs e o cuidado ambiental. A exploração desses conceitos busca auxiliar na promoção de medidas de educação ambiental, ampliando o escopo de ações praticadas pelos adolescentes para além das questões relativas ao lixo, pois, apesar de sua reconhecida importância, a diversidade de comportamentos também pode ser estimulada, incluindo outras ações de mitigação das MCGs em nível local.Palavras-chave: mudanças climáticas globais; percepção; cuidado ambiental; adolescentes.ABSTRACT: Scientific evidence of the occurrence of Global Climate Change (GCC) is increasing and becoming more widely acknowledged; it may be considered a human-environmental problem, with psychological and social

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Psychology's essential role in alleviating the impacts of climate change.

Cited by 133 publications

References 54 publications

Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

Contributions of psychology to limiting climate change.

The psychological impacts of global climate change.

Mudanças climáticas globais e o cuidado ambiental na percepção de adolescentes: uma aproximação possível

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