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 to meet their Paris Climate Goals. In the absence of political will, many have called for individuals to act on climate change by mitigating their own carbon footprint through having fewer children, driving less, using LED lightbulbs, or by becoming vegetarians. While compelling, individual lifestyle changes on this scale are unlikely to prevent climate disaster. Resolving the Climate Crisis presents informed solutions for social change that center human behavior and emotions, political systems, and societal structures. Across a series of concise and accessible chapters, authors explore potential solutions to climate change, addressing topics including Indigenous ecologies, LGBTQ+ community engagement, renewable energy technologies, and climate justice. Their expert engagement with the social and behavioural sciences makes this book not only an essential handbook of climate change solutions but also an innovative model for public-facing social science scholarship.
Resolving the Climate Crisis will be an essential resource for students and researchers of climate change, as well as policy makers working to develop meaningful strategies for combatting the climate crisis.
Edited by:
Kristin Haltinner,
Dilshani Sarathchandra
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032567396
ISBN 10: 1032567392
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 28 June 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
