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Any complex issue, like responding to climate change, involves developing social consensus to be effective. Once you accept that people are reasonable that changes your approach to policy interventions. It moves you towards engaging with people who are the targets of interventions: changing people from targets into partners; acknowledging their context. This #partnershipthinking & more #participatory & #deliberative #engagement can manifest in methods such as qualitative interviews, focus groups, citizens assemblies, engagement with citizen science initiatives, & deliberative prompts (‘nudge plus’) during interventions. Too often we don't start with the belief that people are reasonable! Read this short helpful article which suggests that changing your approach to assuming people are reasonable enables more effective shaping of shaping public policy. It is published on sciencedirect.com & written by Jens Koed Madsen Lee de-Wit Peter Ayton Laura de Molière Carla Groom. Thanks to The Decision Lab & Rachel Devine for direction to it. #climateleadership #goodcommunication #decisionsthatmatter #partnershipcommunication #mattersthatmatter #behaviouralpyschology #trustworthycommunication #publicpolicy #environmentalpolicy #environmentaladvocacy https://lnkd.in/g-Y_8CEv

"*They* just don't get it" is a common refrain when there are polarising issues, like policy on #environmental issues. People respond to that unreasonable view by getting more forceful in conveying their views. Yet truly impactful communication for societal change meets people in their context: not preaching (sacred beliefs), prosecuting (focusing on flaws), or politicking (campaigning for approval) but being curious & engaging people with a #partnership mindset & relating to their context when communicating. I think we need more curiosity, openness, engagement with others to reduce polarisation & build effective lasting change; not more forcefulness. "Nothing about us, without us" is a refrain from Burnett Foundation Aotearoa in relation to HIV that reasonates in a broad policy context. This recent academic article suggests that any policy change should start with assuming people are reasonable. That seems #reasonable to me. What do you think? What efforts do you see that are being made by public servants globally to build consenus, in service, around impactful policies for our common future? #climatechange #nothingaboutuswithoutus #decisionsthatmatter #futuretransitions #behaviouralpyschology #trustworthycommunication #policychange #environmentalpolicy #consensusbuilding #environmentalleadership #environmentalengagement #accesstoenvironmentaljustice Stephen Clarke BA (Hons), PG Dip, MRIM Andrew Schollum Emma Naji Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission Ministry for the Environment | Manatū mō te Taiao UN Environment Programme

#CFP "The Social Impact of #ClimateFiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference" Deadline : 1 November, 2024 The study of climate fiction, texts exploring the impact of climate change has proliferated alongside the now-familiar call for better narrative accounts of the #Anthropocene.[1] At the same time, it is not enough to generate simply more of these narratives; the crucial task remains to evaluate how they are taken up by readers and audiences and make meaning in the world.[2] To this end, the conference’s presentations will be categorized within three areas where it is possible to assess this #literature’s potential impact: the implementation of climate narratives in the classroom (pedagogy); empirical studies of climate fiction’s reception (empirical #ecocriticism); and artworks that embed narratives for the purpose of inspiring greater climate #consciousness (climate #activism). Rather than repeat calls for more and better representations of climate change in fiction, this conference takes stock of the most recent innovations in #ecostorytelling and asks: how should the urgency of the climate crisis (and the resulting call to action) affect our expectations from, and experience of, reading literature today? And what evidence emerges for fiction’s capacity to inspire greater ecological #awareness? Please submit your 250-word abstract for 20-min presentations and a short bio to clifi.conference@gmail.com

“While it is widely acknowledged that a combination of policies – a policy mix – is needed to shape the direction and dynamics of change, it is less clear how to design and implement such policy mixes.” Missions have become a popular approach among policymakers worldwide to tackle grand societal challenges, such as climate change. In her doctoral thesis, Barbara Hedeler investigates the role of policymaking in achieving societal missions. Barbara will defend her thesis on 31 January. Read more – follow link in comments. Opponent: Markus M. Bugge Supervisor: Hans Hellsmark Examiner: Björn Sandén #chalmersuniversityoftechnology #chalmerstme #research #phd #transformation #policy #mission #policymaking

“As the climate emergency worsens the work of social scientists becomes even more vital.” In a blog from our archive, Professor Jenny Pickerill FAcSS and Professor Matt Watson, of The University of Sheffield, explain why the climate emergency is a social and political problem and how solutions must come from social science research alongside any technological advances. They also explore issues of social justice and the impact of grassroots environmentalism, demonstrating the social and political nature of the problem and its potential solutions. Read now ➡ https://lnkd.in/exGXtVnM #socialscience #climatechange #solutions

In a world preoccupied with material growth and technological advances, this new blog by Jamie Bristow and Rosie Bell discusses the overlooked psychological and cultural dimensions essential for addressing global crises. The blog explores the deep-rooted influences of our inner lives on societal and environmental challenges. Unveiling how dominant mindsets shaped by the European ‘Enlightenment’ continue to propel us towards ecological and societal collapse, the authors propose a critical shift towards acknowledging and nurturing our inner dimensions as part of a comprehensive systemic change. Read more to discover how integrating our inner worlds into systems thinking can catalyse profound societal transformation 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dPP5Z2WJ #SystemChange #InnerDevelopment #Sustainability Earth4All

"At the very root of failing societal systems is a particular system of thought, with origins in the European ‘Enlightenment’. This dominant mindset has underpinned modern scientific advancement, bringing extraordinary material comfort to large parts of the world. At the same time its reductionist tendency has shaped over centuries a mass culture of alienation and exploitation on a planetary scale, setting human civilisation on a trajectory for collapse. This same reductive materialism has likewise influenced a widespread de-prioritisation of inner life – as such our understanding of human drives, impulses, resistances and potentials is often remarkably poor and drastically over-simplified. It’s now essential that we integrate understanding and cultivation of the inner – individual and collective – into systems approaches. Wisdom traditions and scientific research alike show that we are capable of understanding, nurturing, and transforming our inner landscapes in ways that support the flourishing of all life. A burgeoning evidence base supports methods for necessary inner development at individual, group and societal levels…. ..transformative capacities of heart and mind can be cultivated to support collective action and shift foundational attitudes over time: from deeper awareness of our cognitive biases and threat behaviours, to resilience and adaptability at both individual and community levels, and modes of cognition and imagination fit for the complexities of our changing world.. The authors call not for a shift in emphasis away from material solutions, but for a holistic reimagining of our approaches to systemic change; integrating outer with inner dimensions. Transformative change must involve a dual approach: shifting the visible, external structures of society and the invisible, internal landscapes of the human mind and heart."

Actually, we need to upgrade the invisible institutional architecture of society by: Evolving a new social narrative of adaptively evolving abundance A new sociology of money, and A new social contract for holding our institutions of agency and authority accountable for faithfulness in their institutional exercises of institutional powers true to their institutional purposes

🌍 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new journal, Dialogues on Climate Change, a new open peer review journal: https://ow.ly/7yVc50TqE3F. Edited by Dr. Rob Bellamy, the journal will foster critical thinking on all climate change topics and encourage debates among scholars from the social and behavioural sciences, natural sciences, and humanities to drive actionable insights and solutions for a sustainable future. 🌱 Discover more about the journal and how it's contributing to the climate change dialogue: https://ow.ly/rgrB50TqE3E #ClimateChange #SustainableFuture

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲? Swipe 👉 Note: We look at 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 in general: from 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. 🌍 In Climate science, tipping points specifically refer to critical thresholds, that once crossed, lead to drastic changes in the whole climate system with (unpredictable) harmful consequences. Reference: O’Brien, E. (2020). When small signs of change add up: The psychology of tipping points. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(1), 55-62