Facilitating climate change responses
Subtitle: a report of two workshops on knowledge from the social and behavioral sciences
By: Paul C. Stern and Roger E. Kasperson, editors
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780309160322
Subjects: Social aspects; Climate change mitigation; Climatic changes; Research
Description: "The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social sciences in addressing the challenges of global climate change, called on the National Research Council to organize two workshops to showcase some of the decision-relevant contributions that these sciences have already made and can advance with future efforts. The workshops focused on two broad areas: (1) mitigation (behavioral elements of a strategy to reduce the net future human influence on climate) and (2) adaptation (behavioral and social determinants of societal capacity to minimize the damage from climate changes that are not avoided).  Facilitating Climate Change Responses documents the information presented in the workshop presentations and discussions. This material illustrates some of the ways the behavioral and social sciences can contribute to the new era of climate research."
Notes: "Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-146).

Also available online in Open Book format via the National Academies Press.
Table of contents: title: Public understanding of climate change; title: The potential for limiting climate change through household action; title: Public acceptance of energy technologies; title: Organizational change and the greening of business; title: Climate change adaptation: the state of the science; title: Federal climate change adaptation planning; title: Place-based adaptation cases; title: Adaptation and natural resource management; title: Cross-cutting issues in adaptation; title: Synthesis of key questions for the workshop.