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    Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-Psychological Action.

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    Date
    2014
    Author
    Jaspal, Rusi;
    Nerlich, Brigitte;
    Cinnirella, Marco
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    Abstract
    Climate change is one of the most important global challenges in the twenty-first century, given that a changing climate is likely to have negative and potentially irreversible consequences for the environment and human beings. Drawing upon Social Representations Theory and Identity Process Theory from social psychology, we argue that research should focus upon, and successfully integrate, three levels of analysis, namely (1) how climate change knowledge is constructed and circulates (social representation); (2) the role of identity in relation to these representations (identity); and (3) how people might respond to them (action). It is suggested that identity processes may determine how people process social representations of climate change, and that they mediate the link between representations and environmental behaviour. Understanding human responses to climate change necessitates an integrative social sciences perspective, in terms of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches.
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    Citation : Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B. and Cinnirella, M. (2014). Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-Psychological Action. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. 8 (1), pp. 110-130
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2086/8827
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2013.846270
    Research Group : Psychology
    Research Institute : Media Discourse Centre (MDC)
    Research Institute : Mary Seacole Research Centre
    Peer Reviewed : Yes
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