Climate Change and Society: The Chimera of Behaviour Change Technologies

Sociology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1244-1244
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behaviour Change

Behaviour change to address climate change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Whitmarsh ◽  
Wouter Poortinga ◽  
Stuart Capstick
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Address Climate Change

Compensation and consistency effects in proenvironmental behaviour: The moderating role of majority and minority support for proenvironmental values

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny Lalot ◽  
Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor ◽  
Alain Quiamzade
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Consistency Effect ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Consistency Effects

Western citizens perceive human behaviour as a significant cause of climate change and increasingly adopt proenvironmental behaviours. However, such positively connoted behaviours can either increase (consistency) or decrease (compensation) the probability that one acts in a similar way in the future. Drawing from social influence and social identity literatures, we propose that numerical support for proenvironmental values (majority vs. minority) moderates the effect of past behaviour on intention to adopt proenvironmental behaviour. Across three studies ( N = 500), past behaviour, either measured (Study 1) or manipulated (Studies 2 and 3) interacted with numerical support, manipulated (Studies 1 and 2) or measured (Study 3), to predict proenvironmental intention and behaviour. Results showed that majority support results in balancing dynamics, whereas minority support results in a consistency effect. These findings highlight the importance of the normative context for proenvironmental behaviour adoption and offer leads for developing behaviour change strategies.

scholarly journals The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: A data-based commentary.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Corker ◽  
Kaloyan Mitev ◽  
Astrid Nilsson ◽  
Milan Tamis ◽  
Thijs Bouman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Observed Behaviour ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
The Impact

Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a substantial impact on everyday life, including many carbon-intensive behaviours such as transportation. Changes to transportation behaviour may reduce carbon emissions. Behaviour change theory can offer perspective on the drivers and influences of behaviour and shape recommendations for how policy-makers can capitalise on any observed behaviour changes that may mitigate climate change. For this commentary, we aimed to describe changes in data relating to transportation behavioursrelating to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. We display these identified changes in a concept map, suggesting links between the changes in behaviour and levels of carbon emissions. We consider these changes in relation to a comprehensive and easy to understand model of behaviour, the COM-B, to understand the capabilities, opportunities and behaviours related to the observed behaviour changes and potential policy to mitigate climate change. There is now an opportunity for policy-makers to increase the likelihood of maintaining pro-environmental behaviour changes by providing opportunities, improving capabilities and maintaining motivation for these behaviours.

scholarly journals Changing Climate and Changing Behaviour: Perceptions of Powerlessness and the Commons Dilemma

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christopher Aitken
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Deficit Model ◽  
Commons Dilemma ◽  
Barriers To Change ◽  
Knowledge Deficit ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

<p>Mitigating climate change is recognized as an increasingly urgent task that requires several different methods to achieve. Among these is the need to encourage voluntary behaviour change. Doing so necessitates an understanding of the barriers that prevent behaviour change, including those which are psychological. Among the psychological barriers to change are perceptions of powerlessness and the commons dilemma. This thesis takes a mixed method approach to understand importance of these in relation to both each other and other barriers when taking action to mitigate climate change. Results indicate that individuals do not clearly distinguish climate change from general environmental problems and have a tendency to simplify the issues to that considered to be the singularly most important. Powerlessness and the commons dilemma had been evaluated but not extensively or as specifically applicable to climate change. Powerlessness and the commons dilemma were both found to relate to lower amounts of action on climate change and less importance placed upon climate change in actions. Perceived risk and human influence on climate change were the strongest predictors of action. Results generally support the knowledge-deficit model of behaviour change as being applicable to climate change.</p>

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