1st Edition

Climate-Just Behavior Foundations and Transformational Approaches

122 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis. This volume examines the barriers, opportunities and incentives around the pursuit of climate-just behavior, based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary and integrative analysis. It investigates how the gap between expressing concern about the climate crisis and giving it a... Read more

I: Overview and Introduction

II: A Psychological Perspective on Justice and Injustice

III: The Complexity of Human Behavior and What This Means for Explaining Climate-Related Behavior

IV: Justifying Climate-Unjust Individual Behavior: Barriers to Climate Action as Moral Disengagement and Other Forms of Justification

V: Toward Climate-Just Behavior: Addressing and Overcoming the Identified Barriers

Index

 

Biography

Susanne Stoll-Kleemann is a University Professor and currently works as Chair of Sustainability Science and Applied Geography, University of Greifswald, Germany. There, she heads the Master's program "Sustainability Geography". She previously conducted research on the psychology of climate-friendly behavior at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

Susanne Nicolai is a psychologist and currently pursuing her doctoral studies on the perception of injustice and moral emotions amidst the climate crisis at the University of Greifswald. Additionally, she actively engages in social movements advocating for climate justice.