Foreword
Susanne Moser, Independent Scholar, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting
Introduction: Opportunities and Barriers to Engaging Individuals with Climate Change
Part 1: Theories and Models.
1. Old habits and New Routes to Sustainable Behaviour
2. Carbon Budgets and Carbon Capability: Lessons from Personal Carbon Trading
3. Public Engagement in Climate Action: Policy and Public Expectations
4. Collective Self and Individual Choice: The Role of Social Comparisons in Promoting Public Engagement with Climate Change
5. Dismantling the Consumption-Happiness Myth: A Neuropsychological Perspective on the Mechanisms that Lock us in to Unsustainable Consumption
6. Public Engagement with Climate Adaptation: An Imperative for (and Driver Of) Institutional Reform?
7. Ecological Citizenship as Public Engagement
Part 2: Methods, Media and Tools
8. Engaging People in Saving Energy on a Large Scale: Lessons from the Programmes of the Energy Saving Trust in the UK
9. Keeping Up with the Joneses in the Great British Refurb: The Impacts and Limits of Social Learning in Eco-Renovation
10. Up-Scaling Social Behaviour Change Programmes: The Case of Ecoteams
11. The Role and Effectiveness of Governmental and Non-Governmental Communications in Engaging the Public with Climate Change
12. Communicating Energy Demand: Measurement, Display and the Language of Things
13. The Role of New Media in Engaging the Public with Climate Change
14. Low Carbon Communities: A Grassroots Perspective on Public Engagement
Conclusion: What have we Learnt and where do we go from Here?