Contemplating Climate Change - Stephen M. Dark

Contemplating Climate Change

Mental Models and Human Reasoning

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-60000-3 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure? Why are some people more disposed to reflect on confounding issues like climate change, recognise the danger, seek a solution, and act accordingly, more than others?

This book is concerned with how we think and act in response to climate change. In particular, faced with deep uncertainty and the multifaceted complexities that characterise the climate change conundrum, how the various actors and institutions involved in the policymaking process make decisions that both aid and impede in the design and implementation of climate change policy. This book focuses on how these actors and institutions frame and use the knowledge available – under conditions of competing ideologies and interests – and synthesise it to form often-disparate mental models, or worldviews, that inspire them to become firm advocates of meaningful climate change action or indeed, sceptics that continue to downplay the threat, and hence the need for urgency. By exploring how we think about climate change and the disparate mental models we hold as a result, this book explores why humankind has thus far failed in its endeavours to solve the climate change problem.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and environmental psychology.

Stephen M. Dark is a Semester Teaching Fellow at Bond University, Australia, and holds a PhD in Environmental Epistemic Cognition.

Dedication

List of Figures

1. Introduction: Contemplating Climate Change

2. The Stealthy Art of Framing

3. Mental-Modelling: In Search of a Theory

4. The General Model of the Policymaking Process

5. The Institutions Process Model

6. The Mental Model Process

7. Deductions

8. Summary and Conclusions

Glossary

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Zusatzinfo 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 512 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10 1-138-60000-8 / 1138600008
ISBN-13 978-1-138-60000-3 / 9781138600003
Zustand Neuware
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