Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity - Couverture souple

Crompton, Tom; Kasser, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1900322641 ISBN 13 : 9781900322645

Editeur : Green Books, 2009

Synopsis

In addressing environmental challenges like climate change, governments, charities and business tend to focus either on changing policy or business practice, or on urging individuals to adopt different behaviour. The role of human identity is largely absent from the debate. And yet, our identities who we see ourselves as being have a profound impact in shaping the responses we make to environmental challenges.



This provocative book will rattle the cages of many environmentalists, green-minded business-people and policy makers. In it, Crompton and Kasser suggest that many current approaches to addressing problems like climate change may actually inadvertently serve to reinforce those aspects of identity that drive us towards unsustainable behaviour in first place. They suggest that it will only be by re-shaping political debate and social institutions in order to promote more helpful aspects of identity that we can have any hope of meeting environmental challenges.



The book closes by highlighting the opportunities that this perspective presents for building new alliances between people working not just on environmental issues, but also on a range of social and developmental concerns: Many of those aspects of human identity that frustrate progress on the environmental agenda also frustrate progress on meeting other challenges.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tom Crompton is Change Strategist at WWF-UK, Godalming, Surrey, UK, where he has developed WWF s Strategies for Change Project. He is author of the WWFUK report Weathercocks and Signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads and coauthor of Simple and Painless? The Limitations of Spillover in Environmental Campaigning. He holds a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Leicester, and a BA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK. Tim Kasser is Professor of Psychology at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, USA, where he teaches classes on personality, clinical and abnormal psychology, and alternatives to consumerism. He has published dozens of scientific articles and book chapters on how people s values and goals relate to their quality of life and their social and environmental behaviour. Kasser is also the author of The High Price of Materialism (MIT Press, 2002) and co-editor of Psychology and Consumer Culture (APA, 2004). He holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Rochester, New york, and a BA in psychology from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Green Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1900322641
• ISBN 13: 9781900322645
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible