Emotional Pathways to Climate Action

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Davidson, Debra J

• SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Moving the needle toward pro-climate action requires better understanding of the antecedents to personal and collective climate behavior. Our research questions include the following: 1. How do personal and intersectional attributes shape emotion-cognition pathways to climate change (in)action?, 2. Which emotional pathways support inaction, and which support action?, and 3. How does direct experience with disaster shape these emotional response pathways? We pursue just such a research program, prioritizing interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, with a multi-stage, sequential empirical study of the role of emotions in climate change responses among Canadians, including survey and experimental methods, and qualitative interviews with wildfire disaster survivors in British Columbia, focused on rural and Indigenous Canadians.

• Date created

  09/15/2021

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • IG
  • SSHRC
  • Resource Economics
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Climate
  • Change
  • Emotions
  • Social
  • Personal
  • Collective
  • Action
  • Social Psychology
  • Environment
  • Sustainability
  • Canada

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-zpp6-fp53

• License

  ©️Davidson, Debra J. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.