Community action and climate change

Ordner, James

doi:10.1038/nclimate3236

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“…Particularly, they may focus on behaviors that are easy to adopt, but have relatively small impact 28,31 e.g., recycling. Typically, the available voluntary lifestyle changes are often limited to consumption of less harmful goods or "green consumption" 10,32 , and constrained by institutional, infrastructural and behavioral lock-ins 30,33,34 . Furthermore, only a massive adoption of lifestyle changes would represent a serious contribution towards keeping within 1.5°C trajectories 35,36 .…”

Section: The Potential and Constraints Of Lifestyle Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the individual level, initiatives offer knowledge, role-models and social support to adopt sustainable lifestyles while satisfying needs 10,42 . At the group or network level, they enrich social capital by spurring social learning 17,37 , mobilizing for environmental citizenship 32 and incubating innovation niches 17,34 . At the societal level, they can influence the underlying rules and norms, creating a supportive normative context for sustainable policies 24,26 .…”

Section: Sustainability-oriented Grassroots Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, previous research indicates that grassroots initiatives play a role in sustainability transitions 10,17,26,32,37,39 by providing counter-narratives of economic development with an embedded perspective of intrinsic motivations, values underpinning social relations and pathways to sustainable lifestyles 44,45 .…”

Section: Sustainability-oriented Grassroots Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases

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Ivanova

Dumitru

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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Scientists and policymakers recognize the need to address consumption and lifestyles in order to reconcile environmental and development agendas. Sustainability-oriented grassroots initiatives emerge bottom-up to create opportunities for sustainable lifestyles; yet no prior assessment has ascertained the efficacy of their members to reduce carbon footprints (CF) and enhance well-being. We compare the CF of non-members and members of grassroots initiatives in the domains of food, clothing, housing and transport. We further compare the groups by testing the influence of socio-economic variables that are typically associated with both footprint and well-being. Here we show that grassroots initiative members have 16% lower total carbon footprint, and 43% and 86% lower carbon footprints for food and clothing respectively, compared to their "non-member" regional socio-demographic counterparts. We find a higher adoption of some energy-saving behaviors for initiative members such as greater active travel distance and lower indoor temperatures in the winter, yet no significant differences in the CF of housing and transport. Interestingly, increases in income are not associated with increases in the total CF of members, while the influence of income is confirmed for the CF of the total sample. Instead, factors such as age, household size, and gender better explain the variation in the domain-specific CFs of initiative members. Finally, members show higher life satisfaction compared to non-members and are 11-13% more likely to evaluate their life positively. Our results suggest that initiative members uncover lifestyle features that not only enable lower emissions, but also reconcile emissions with income and well-being.

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Section: The Potential and Constraints Of Lifestyle Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainability-oriented Grassroots Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainability-oriented Grassroots Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Happier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increases

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Ivanova

Dumitru

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Navid and Einsidel, 2012), such studies are focused solely on medical health (Ahmed et al, 2014), one type of participatory dialogue, shows little evidence of knowledge increase but promising signs of emotional engagement (Lafrenière and Cox, 2012), which may be a precursor to behavior change. Finally, individual action on issues, especially complex global problems such as climate change, may need to give way to larger actions, meaning engagement and behavior change must start to focus on community-level and more proactive solutions beyond simply changing lightbulbs in personal residences (Ordner, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Public Engagement on Climate and Health in Museums and Participatory Dialogues may Foster Behavior Change

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Lundgren

Dunckel

et al. 2019

JSTEM

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As scientific knowledge grows and the planet's human population makes unprecedented changes, decision-making places more and more demands on the everyday democratic participant. Yet efforts to help the public acquire and make use of evidence-based information fall short. We present preliminary comparisons of three participatory design models of public engagement with science designed to encourage community action rather than just raise awareness in participants on local public health issues impacted by climate change. We collected survey data at two in-person community-based participatory dialogues and a museum exhibit and presented but received no surveys from televised versions of the participatory dialogues. Results indicated that behavior change was indeed salient to participants. Actions participants plan to take included sharing what they learned, contacting legislators, and direct conservation efforts. Future research should study whether participants undertake planned actions and do so in groups rather than as individuals.

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“…Social dilemmas occur when the interests of an individual and that of the group it belongs to, collide [3]. The ubiquity of social dilemmas is evident by its appearance in pertinent issues such as fishery and wildlife management [4] and global climate change [5]. Biologically relevant scenarios such as foraging strategies [6], group hunting behavior [7, 8], and bacterial secretions interpreted as public goods [9] provide these dilemmas a sociobiological setting.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%