1st Edition

Resolving the Climate Crisis US Social Scientists Speak Out

Edited By Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra Copyright 2024
258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together a team of renowned social scientists to ask not why climate change is happening, but how we might learn from its human dimensions to raise public and political will to fight against the climate crisis. Despite efforts for mitigation, global emission levels continue to increase annually and the world’s wealthiest nations, including all of the G20 countries, have failed... Read more

Introduction

 

Engaging Social Science Knowledge to Resolve the Climate Crisis

Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra

 

Part 1: Rejecting Our Toxic Cultural Stories 

 

Chapter 1: A Community-University Collaboration for Climate Justice

David N. Pellow

 

Chapter 2: Towards Earthbound Climate Movements: The Importance of Understanding Ontology and Settler Colonialism in Engaging the Climate Crisis

David Osborn

 

Chapter 3: Gender and Climate Justice

Christina Ergas

 

Part 2: Recognizing Existing Use of Alternative Stories

 

Chapter 4: Doing One’s Part of the Job: The Norwegian Dugnad Tradition in a Global Climate Perspective

Anne Kristine Haugestad and Kari Marie Norgaard

 

Chapter 5: In/Action in Addressing the Climate Crisis: The Possibilities of Generation Z

Hannah Block, Cailin Lorek, and Ryan Alaniz

 

Chapter 6: Queer Political Culture in the Face of the Climate Crisis

Melanie M. Bowers and Cameron T. Whitley

 

Part 3: Changing the Stories

 

Chapter 7: Overcoming Hurdles to Climate Mitigation: How Motivational Barriers Impact Strategies for Change

Samantha Noll

 

Chapter 8: We are the Collective

Kristin Haltinner

 

Chapter 9: Insights from Social and Behavioral Sciences to Motivate Climate Action

Dilshani Sarathchandra

 

Chapter 10: ACT Now: Words, Actions, and Values in Tackling the Human Dimensions of the Climate Crisis

Jack DeWaard

 

Part 4: Amplifying Stories on the Margins  

 

Chapter 11: Dismantling the Settler Paradigm in Indigenous Climate Resilience

Aiyana James and Laura Laumatia

 

Chapter 12: Criminalizing Climate Change: Defining and Responding to Ecocide

Taylor June, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Nicole Fox

 

Chapter 13: Framing the Climate Crisis: A Sociological Lens through Documentary Film

Cedric A. L. Taylor

 

Part 5: Organizing Through a New Ethic 

 

Chapter 14: From Vulnerability to Co-Production: Centering Indigenous Ecologies in Arctic Climate Adaptation

P. Joshua Griffin

 

Chapter 15: Closing the Social Gap in the Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies

David Bidwell and Shannon Howley

 

Chapter 16: Futures Born of the Past and Present: Building Transitions as Collaborative Projects of Justice

Tristan Partridge and Javiera Barandiarán

 

Chapter 17: Listening and Building Trust: Community-Led Conservation in Lincoln, Montana

Ryanne Pilgeram and Jordan Reeves

 

Chapter 18: Cattle Grazing and Climate Change Adaptation: Local Environmental Knowledge and Public Lands Management in the US West

Chloe B. Wardropper and Nicolas T. Bergmann

 

Conclusion

 

How to Mobilize Public Will to Resolve the Climate Crisis

Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra

 

Index

 

Biography

Kristin Haltinner is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Idaho.

Dilshani Sarathchandra is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Idaho.