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ArticleAmbio2024

When concern is not enough: Overcoming the climate awareness-action gap.

Gail Hochachka

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Article in Ambio, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Gail HochachkaDepartment of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Office 2223, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada. gail.hochachka@ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-7721

Funding

Mitacs IT26581
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate concern is on the rise in many countries and recent research finds that lifestyle- and behaviour-change could advance climate action; yet, individuals struggle to move their climate concern into action. This is known as the 'awareness-action inconsistency,' 'psychological climate paradox,' or 'values-action gap.' While this gap has been extensively studied, climate action implementation and policy-design seldom sufficiently apply that body of knowledge in practice. This Perspective presents a comprehensive heuristic to account for how individuals bring climate change into their awareness (climate action-logics), how they keep climate change out of their awareness (climate shadow), how social narratives contribute to shaping choices (climate discourses), and how systems and structures influence and constrain agency (climate-action systems). The heuristic is illustrated with an example of 15-Minute Cities in Canada. Understanding the multifaceted dilemma that weighs on people's sense-making and behaviours may help policy-makers and practitioners to ameliorate the climate awareness-action gap.

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AwarenessClimate ChangeCanadaHeuristicsHumans15-Minute citiesBehaviour changeClimate communicationsClimate engagementClimate shadowValues-action gap

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PMID38709448
PMCPMC11183022

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