While on the road promoting her book“California Against the Sea,”Rosanna told me that questions about individual vs. systemic change have come up a lot. Here’s a common response she gives: “While it’s true that no one person can solve climate chan...
A. Their efforts to fight climate change aren't enough.B. They are the reason why the climate gets colder.C. Their burden should be shared by ordinary Americans.D. They are responsible for today's social unfairness." /> I strongly believe that individual actions make a difference to our ...
Geoengineering is the focus of a large debate over potential solutions to climate change. However, in the midst of geoengineering and other large﹕cale proposals, such as reducing emissions at an industrial level, the role of individual actions to reduce emissions is often overlooked. Given the ...
Strategic actions against climate change of institutional entrepreneurs: a case study in the Spanish renewable energy sector Purpose – This paper aims to improve the knowledge about the strategic actions of institutional entrepreneurs in the configuration of the institutional pi... José,María,González...
(10 points) (46) The message of the first Earth Day—April 22, 1970—had a certain innocence, filled with a certain can-do-ism: individual actions would roll back the damage done to the planet. The emphasis on the individual was picked up in best sellers like "50...
The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in — and measuring us against - our peer group. 出自-2015年12月阅读原文 Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles ( ' , How big are they? and What do they eat?). 出自-20...
From the local to the global scale, human actions have influenced – and in many cases, disrupted – the structure and functioning of populations, communities, and ecosystems, with several examples of human-induced changes in wild populations2–6. Traditionally, the most adverse human activities ...
while received social support focuses on the social support actually provided by others53. Enacted social support refers to actions an individual takes to help others18. Structural social support reflects the size and strength of one’s support network. Most meta-analyses find perceived social support...
Manycurrent global issues—such as inequality and world poverty,climatechangeand the unjustdynamics in the global economy—are also distinctivelymoral challengesresulting from and influencingthe actions and experiencesof persons.It is the habitual actionsofindividual agents, the thingswedodayafter day(...
From Fig. 1 we can also see that the realisation of the urban sustainability strategies can be divided into institutional-provisional (actors and means) and individual-behavioural actions (means and users). (Provisional here means regarding provision, supply and facilitation and will be used as ...