Devine-Wright, P, Whitmarsh, L, Gatersleben, B et al. (6 more authors) (2022) Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate, 1 (5). e0000035. e0000035-e0000035. ISSN 2767-3200
Abstract
Profound societal change along with continued technical improvements will be required to meet our climate goals, as well as to improve people’s quality of life and ensure thriving economies and ecosystems. Achieving the urgent and necessary transformations laid out in the recently published IPCC report will require placing people at the heart of climate action. Tackling climate change cannot be achieved solely through technological breakthroughs or new climate models. We must build on the strong social science knowledge base and develop a more visible, responsive and interdisciplinary-oriented social science that engages with people and is valued in its diversity by decision-makers from government, industry, civil society and law. Further, we need to design interventions that are both effective at reducing emissions and achieve wider societal goals such as wellbeing, equity, and fairness. Given that all climate solutions will involve people in one way or another, the social sciences have a vital role to play.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Devine-Wright et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Sustainable Transport Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2022 09:13 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2022 09:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
Identification Number: | 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000035 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188300 |