Tagged: identity

Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity

Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity 2009 The epochal scale of today’s environmental challenges is now beyond serious scientific dispute. Awareness of the scale of these challenges grows ever greater – in the case of climate change, it seems that the prognoses of climatologists grow yet more urgent on an almost weekly basis. And as this awareness grows,...

The Psychology of Climate Change Communication

The Psychology of Climate Change Communication 2009 Research shows that most Americans do not feel a personal connection to climate change. They are aware of it, they may even rank it as a concern, but according to a 2008 Pew Research Center for People and the Press, they do not perceive it as a near-term priority on par with, say,...