Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches

Summary

Climate-Just Behavior brings insights from psychology, behavioural economics and neuroscience to the pursuit of climate justice. In so doing, this short, accessible and informative book attempts to link individualist and voluntarist theories of pro-environmental behavior to structural and collective action approaches rooted in sociology and political economy. This is an ambitious task: in a methodological sense the differences between positivist and interpretive social science have been described as greater than between the social and natural sciences (Lele and Norgaard 2005), and in a political sense behavioural approaches have been associated with neoliberalism and incrementalism as compared with the transformative structural approaches of de/post-growth. Stoll-Kleeman and Nicolai’s book should therefore prove a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers interested in working with and between these very different approaches to environmental thought and action.

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Link to centre authors: West, Simon
Publication info: Simon West. 2024. Climate-just behavior: foundations and transformational approaches. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2441021

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