Feeling Climate Change - How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like - and how they work - so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe.

List of contents

1 Introduction: why a book on emotions? 2 What Lies Ahead 3 Can We Do This? Embarking on Transformational Social Change 4 What Are Emotions and Why Should We Care? 5 Scaling Up Emotions, from the Individual, to Social Structures and Back Again 6 Inaction Pathways: On Why We Don’t Do the Things We Don’t Do 7 Pathways to Action, or Doing the Hard Thing 8 Threading the Needle from Emotions to Transformational Social Change

About the author

Debra J. Davidson is professor of environmental sociology at the University of Alberta. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society (2018) and co-editor of Environment and Society (2018), as well as author of numerous articles on sociology and the environment.

Summary

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like – and how they work – so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe.

Product details

• Authors: Debra J. Davidson, Davidson Debra J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032462813
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246281-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Climate Change, Psychology: emotions, Human Geography