Engaging the public with climate change: behaviour change and communication

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged. This book answers the urgent call for effective engagement methods to foster sustainable lifestyles, community action, and social change. Written by practitioners and academics, the chapters combine theoretical perspectives with case studies and practical guidance, examining what works and what doesn't, and providing transferable lessons for future engagement approaches. Showcasing innovative thought and approaches from around the world, this book is essential reading for anyone working to foster real and lasting behavioural and social change. --Product Description.

Introduction: Opportunities for and barriers to engaging individuals with climate change / Lorraine Whitmarsh and Saffron O'Neill -- Old habits and new routes to sustainable behaviour / Bas Verplanken -- Carbon budgets and carbon capability: lessons from personal carbon trading / Irene Lorenzoni, Gill Seyfang and Michael Nye -- Public engagement in climate action: policy and public expectations / Corina Höppner and Lorraine Whitmarsh -- Collective self and individual choice: the role of social comparisons in promoting public engagement with climate change / Anna Rabinovich, Thomas A. Morton and Christopher C. Duke -- Dismantling the consumption-happiness myth: a neuropsychological perspective on the mechanisms that lock us in to unsustainable consumption / Fiona Brannigan -- Public engagement with climate adaptation: an imperative for (and driver of) institutional reform? / Peat Leith -- Ecological citizenship as public engagement with climate change / Johanna Wolf -- Engaging people in saving energy on a large scale: lessons from the programmes of the energy saving trust in the UK / Nick Eyre, Brooke Flanagan and Ken Double -- Keeping up with the Joneses in the great British refu…