ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science

ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science announces new funding for three #EnvironmentalSocialScience research projects. Together they examine and evaluate opportunities to encourage people to get more involved in #climateaction. ‘Unlocking the power of youth’ aims to bring global youth expertise into climate governance, ensuring young people and marginalised voices can be included in decision-making. The team is led by Kaya Axelsson Oxford Net Zero Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment - University of Oxford University of Oxford https://shorturl.at/jbR7Y Davide Pettinato at University of Cambridge & Mohammed Fezaan Azam from Cambridge Central Mosque will be looking at British Muslims & their pro-environmental values. Together to co-produce & evaluate a holistic programme of faith-literate environmental education https://shorturl.at/HibWZ The last project looks at how we might build more harmonious people-planet relations. Taking a socioecological care approach, Sarah Parry and Rachel Hunt at the The University of Edinburgh will explore the transformative potential of everyday caring practices and relationships between people, nonhumans and places, and their characteristics like love, respect and solidarity. They will be running a Pilot Study in the Highlands of Scotland. Partners include Highlands & Islands Climate Hub & Cairngorms National Park Authority https://shorturl.at/TK2or https://lnkd.in/ezxB3XRz

Great to see the impact our work on ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science is having across both our universities.

I am delighted to share our new article published today which reports on awareness of climate justice around the world, and how climate justice beliefs relate to people's actions and support for climate policies. Highlights: 1. On average, 2 out of 3 people have not heard of the term climate justice (prior to completing the survey). Less than 1-in-5 feel thay have a good understanding of what the term means. Nevertheless, 2. Most people understand that climate change disproportionately impacts the poor and least responsible (78%). There is less recognition of disproportionately impacts on people of colour (57%) and women globally (41%). 3. Recognition that climate change is driven by capitalism and colonisation is widespread (70%). 4. Solutions - Strong majority agree that frontline communities should have more of a say in climate solutions (78%). There is also widespread acceptance that solving climate change requires redistributing wealth (67%). 5. People with stronger climate justice beliefs are also more likely to have engaged in climate actions (e.g., protest, volunteer, joined in a climate group), online activism, private pro-environmental behaviours, and show support for radical climate policies (e.g., increased tax on fossil fuels, carbon intensive foods, and frequent flyers). 6. The association of climate justice beliefs with behaviour and policy support tended to be stronger in Australia, Brazil and the US. Weaker in Nigeria and the Philippines. There is widespread recognition of the basic social, historical, and economic injustices that characterise climate change, even if people don't consciously link these with the concept of climate justice. Importantly, what people believe about climate justice-related issues makes a difference to their behaviours and support for policies. This is a call for climate justice advocates to keep putting the message out there! Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/ep_JTGE5 Privileged to work with an amazing co-authors on this piece: @Rouven Doran, Arin Ayanian, Joonha Park, Akira Utsugi, Karlijn van den Broek, Jihane Ghorayeb, Sibele A., Samuel Lins, John Jamir Benzon Aruta, @Marc Eric S Reyes, Andreas Zick & Susan Clayton

Project Managers are essential to make complex academic projects work, especially given the challenge of organising a disparate group of academic researchers and partners! So we are thrilled to receive 45 high quality applications for the ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science Project Manager position. Congrats to those shortlisted for interview, and best of luck to all of the other applications in their future careers. ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science

Delighted to announce the launch of the Climate Minds Coaliton, A union of major UK mental health professional bodies, calling for greater awareness, support and training for the mental health impacts of the climate and ecological crisis. This affects us all. Please repost to help us spread the awareness. https://lnkd.in/eKcZRTH5 #Climatemindsmatter #climatemindscoalition #worldmentalhealthday2024 #climateresilience #mentalhealthawareness UKCP Climate Psychology Alliance National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society The British Association of Art Therapists BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC THERAPY The British Psychological Society Climate Cares - Imperial College London EMDR Association UK Centre for Mental Health Student Minds Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition (CYPMHC) Thrive LDN Georgina 'G' Penfold

✈️ Travel represents a major component of the carbon impact of universities through travel associated with research, student recruitment, international student travel and field courses. Many universities have declared environment and climate emergencies and have values-statements that reference ecological care. Yet shifting practices, systems and policies is challenging, as flying has become so entwined with research and education. Professor Stewart Barr (ACCESS Leadership team) from the University of Exeter will explore academic perspectives on how we can de-carbonise travel in higher education and practical efforts to change practices, systems and policies through applying the ACCESS Guiding Principles https://lnkd.in/eCvgjRXJ

This 'best of' collection of papers reflects 25 years of excellent social science research in the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning - a useful resource for policy makers, students and practitioners. Great to see our 2010 paper on 'Community Benefits and Bribes' with Gordon Walker and Noel Cass featured here with >5000 views! Open access (but sadly only for another two months) so download them now while you can. https://lnkd.in/epcqyh4E ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Are we sleepwalking towards a dystopian future where our only food choice is lab-grown meat? ...and where one or two global corporate conglomerates have a stranglehold on our entire food system? Mike Barry and I talked about the need for more sustainable food systems and the potential for perverse outcomes like this one at last month’s #NetZero conference, hosted by the University of Exeter and Exeter Innovation at the our Penryn Campus in #Cornwall.   Our current food system is both highly polluting and highly susceptible to the effects of climate change. Clearly, we have to start doing things very differently... ...and low-carbon innovations like lab-grown proteins will likely be part of the solution. But we need to be very careful that we don’t rush into making them the ONLY solution. We need to think hard about what we want our future food system to look like – before it’s too late. What do you think the future of food looks like? And what changes would you be willing to embrace? #ClimateChange #SustainableFood #labgrown #culturedmeat #FutureFood Sustainable Futures, University of Exeter Business School

The UN Ocean Decade has made this beautiful video about our marine identity project! #MarineIdentity #MarineCitizenship #MarSocSci #Challenge10 ExeterMarine

A great opportunity here for budding social science researchers! ACCESS Advancing Capacity for Climate Environment Social Science