Geoffrey Beattie, Laura McGuire

The Psychology of Climate Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a psychological perspective on the current thinking on climate change, an issue of major global importance. The authors seek to demonstrate that there is a significant psychological issue connected with climate change in relation to the development of the climate change â debateâ .

Produktdetails

• The Psychology of Everything
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 166g
• ISBN-13: 9781138484528
• ISBN-10: 1138484520
• Artikelnr.: 53469464

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and in recent years a Masters supervisor on the Sustainability Leadership Programme at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Laura McGuire is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. She was a Research Assistant at the University of Manchester from 2007 to 2011 and then worked as a Research Assistant at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester from 2011 to 2012. Her research focus is on possible psychological barriers which prevent people living a more sustainable lifestyle in the context of the threat posed by climate change and tackling this very major issue from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The science and politics of climate change 2. The great
climate change 'debate', and why this has been so damaging 3. Cognitive
biases in our thinking about climate change. 4. Climate change initiatives,
and why they failed. 5. Assessing our real attitudes to climate change. 6.
How might we change underlying implicit attitudes? 7. Future challenges