TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change
T2 - a multi-level collective action research agenda
AU - York, Abigail M.
AU - Drummond Otten, Caitlin
AU - BurnSilver, Shauna
AU - Neuberg, Steven L.
AU - Anderies, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Climate change is a problem that requires a multi-scale response from the individual to the global. Each level and type of entity has some capacity to influence climate change action and policy, but as a multi-level collective action problem, it is not surprising that there is underprovision of climate change action; this challenge highlights the need to better understand decision-making processes. We propose an integrated research frontier that examines inter-level feedback processes, the role of individuals and organizations in promoting trust within and across levels, the importance of establishing and communicating norms, and inclusion of worldviews to situate decision makers within narratives of climate change. The failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change is a social science problem, perhaps the biggest social problem our society faces. To solve it requires that we advance a new frontier on decision making across a complex set of multi-level collective action relationships.
AB - Climate change is a problem that requires a multi-scale response from the individual to the global. Each level and type of entity has some capacity to influence climate change action and policy, but as a multi-level collective action problem, it is not surprising that there is underprovision of climate change action; this challenge highlights the need to better understand decision-making processes. We propose an integrated research frontier that examines inter-level feedback processes, the role of individuals and organizations in promoting trust within and across levels, the importance of establishing and communicating norms, and inclusion of worldviews to situate decision makers within narratives of climate change. The failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change is a social science problem, perhaps the biggest social problem our society faces. To solve it requires that we advance a new frontier on decision making across a complex set of multi-level collective action relationships.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85109498675
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 52
SP - 19
EP - 26
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -