Changing Our Ways - Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis

In this Element, the authors develop an account of the role of behaviour change that is more political and social by bringing questions of power and social justice to the heart of their enquiry in order to appreciate how questions of responsibility and agency are unevenly distributed within and between societies. The result is a more holistic understanding of behaviour, as just one node within an ecosystem of transformation that bridges the individual and systemic. Their account is more attentive to questions of governance and the processes of collective steering necessary to facilitate large scale change across a diversity of actors, sectors and regions than the dominant emphasis on individuals and households. It is also more historical in its approach, looking critically at the relevance of historical parallels regarding large-scale behaviour change and what might be learned and applied to the contemporary context action.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Changing our ways; 2. The challenge of scaling; 3. Understanding behaviour change; 4. Leverage and tipping points; 5. Future intervention points; 6. Conclusion.

Summary

In this Element, the authors develop an account of the role of behaviour change that is more political and social by bringing questions of power and social justice to the heart of their enquiry in order to appreciate how questions of responsibility and agency are unevenly distributed within and between societies.

Foreword

This Element addresses the often-neglected politics and governance of behaviour change needed to address the climate crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Freddie Daley, Peter Newell, Peter (University of Sussex) Daley Newell, Michelle Twena
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781009108492
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0910849-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Earth System Governance
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Geopolitics, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology