Exploring the challenges of climate science literacy: Lessons from students, teachers and lifelong learners

LAL Dupigny‐Giroux - Geography Compass, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Today more than ever, being climate literate is a critical skill and knowledge area that
influences our interaction with the environment around us, our understanding of scientific …

Beyond the ABC: climate change policy and theories of social change

E Shove - Environment and planning A, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
In this short and deliberately provocative paper I reflect on what seems to be a yawning gulf
between the potential contribution of the social sciences and the typically restricted models …

From environmental campaigns to advancing the public dialog: Environmental communication for civic engagement

RJ Brulle - Environmental Communication, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This essay examines the claims of environmental identity campaigns regarding the issue of
climate change. Identity campaigns are based on the idea that more effective environmental …

Do concerns about climate change lead to distress?

K Searle, K Gow - International Journal of Climate Change Strategies …, 2010 - emerald.com
Purpose–Climate change news and educational awareness programs have swamped
Australia in the past four years, with earlier campaigns raising awareness in Europe and the …

The future of psychology practice and science.

JH Bray - American Psychologist, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
This article reviews the 2009 APA President's initiatives and recommendations for the future
of psychology practice and science. The future of psychology practice requires that we …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability: From excess to aesthetics

LK Grant - Behavior and Social Issues, 2010 - Springer
Sustainability is defined as the operation of a steady-state economy in which natural
resource inputs and waste-product outputs are held constant. Key issues in attaining …

Personal autonomy and environmental sustainability

LG Pelletier, D Baxter, V Huta - Human autonomy in cross-cultural context …, 2010 - Springer
Environmental sustainability is becoming an important, ongoing challenge as people around
the world show an increasing concern about how we can meet the needs of the present …

Climate change: a grand software challenge

SM Easterbrook - Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Software is a critical enabling technology in nearly all aspects of climate change, from the
computational models used by climate scientists to improve our understanding of the impact …

What's missing in theories of the residential energy user

M Moezzi, L Lutzenhiser - 2010 - pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu
Residential energy use has been envisioned in varied ways, each highlighting different
factors and capturing a partial truth. This paper outlines assumptions of core theories about …

[PDF][PDF] Willingness to pay for climate policy: a review of estimates

E Johnson, GF Nemet - 2010 - minds.wisconsin.edu
One explanation for the modest pace of efforts to mitigate climate change, both federally and
internationally, is that constituents do not ascribe much beneficial value to new laws that …