Roberts, JT, Steinberger, JK orcid.org/0000-0002-5925-9602, Dietz, T et al. (6 more authors) (2020) Four agendas for research and policy on emissions mitigation and well-being. Global Sustainability, 3. e3. ISSN 2059-4798
Abstract
The climate crisis requires nations to achieve human well-being with low national levels of carbon emissions. Countries vary from one another dramatically in how effectively they convert resources into well-being, and some nations with low levels of emissions have relatively high objective and subjective well-being. We identify urgent research and policy agendas for four groups of countries with either low or high emissions and well-being indicators. Least studied are those with low well-being and high emissions. Understanding social and political barriers to switching from high-carbon to lower-carbon modes of production and consumption, and ways to overcome them, will be fundamental.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is included and the original work is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. |
Keywords: | climate change; low-carbon; well-being; decoupling; development pathways |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust IAF-2018-018 Leverhulme Trust RL-2016-048 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2019 10:53 |
Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 22:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/sus.2019.25 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153592 |
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