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Author Newell, Peter (Peter John), author

Title Changing our ways : behaviour change and the climate crisis / Peter Newell, Freddie Daley, Michelle Twena
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge elements. Elements in earth system governance, 2631-7818
Cambridge elements. Elements in earth system governance.
Contents 1. Introduction: Changing our ways -- 2. The challenge of scaling -- 3. Understanding behaviour change -- 4. Leverage and tipping points -- 5. Future intervention points -- 6. Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- References
Summary In this Element, the authors develop an account of the role of behaviour change that is more political and social by bringing questions of power and social justice to the heart of their enquiry in order to appreciate how questions of responsibility and agency are unevenly distributed within and between societies. The result is a more holistic understanding of behaviour, as just one node within an ecosystem of transformation that bridges the individual and systemic. Their account is more attentive to questions of governance and the processes of collective steering necessary to facilitate large scale change across a diversity of actors, sectors and regions than the dominant emphasis on individuals and households. It is also more historical in its approach, looking critically at the relevance of historical parallels regarding large-scale behaviour change and what might be learned and applied to the contemporary context action
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Environmental responsibility.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Environmental responsibility
Form Electronic book
Author Daley, Freddie, author
Twena, Michelle, author
ISBN 9781009104401
1009104403