Climate Ethics with an Ethnographic Sensibility

Abstract

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Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences

“…Indeed, there are growing calls to better include the pragmatic insights offered by empirical research in debates about climate ethics. Those who understand climate ethics as 'normative theorizing about climate change' (Green and Brandstedt, 2020, p. 1) are seeking to connect theory with methods that engage society (Bell, Swaffield and Peeters, 2019), and to consider the normative implications that empirical research raises for justice principles in climate ethics (Storey, 2019). Others identify a nascent and 'as-of-yet amorphous field of multidisciplinary climate ethics' (Grasso and Markowitz, 2015, p. 473), which builds on solid normative theorizing, but also incorporates psychological, sociological, political and economic research (Markowitz, Grasso and Jamieson, 2015).…”

“…In this paper, we aim to contribute to an ongoing debate about how practical and empirical social and behavioural sciences can inform multidisciplinary climate ethics (Bell, Swaffield and Peeters, 2019;Green and Brandstedt, 2020) and better connect scholarship to real world climate change decision-making (Markowitz, Grasso and Jamieson, 2015). In this review, we synthesize progress in the social and behavioural sciences that is relevant-directly and indirectly-across the gamut of climate change decisions.…”