Environmental Psychology – Richard M Clarke (PhD)

Mapping momentum around the National Emergency Briefing

I recently attended a screening of the National Emergency Briefing, a campaign calling for a televised briefing on the climate and nature emergency. What struck me was how much of the campaign’s energy comes from local activity: community screenings, conversations, constituency organising, and people encouraging their MPs to support the Parliamentary Call. That prompted meContinue reading “Mapping momentum around the National Emergency Briefing”

Research trends in Environmental Psychology: A bibliometric analysis

Over the past two decades, environmental psychology has grown rapidly, but there has been little systematic work mapping what the field actually looks like at scale. In this paper, we set out to take stock of the literature. To see where we’ve come form and see where we’re going. Using bibliometric methods, we analysed 4,313Continue reading “Research trends in Environmental Psychology: A bibliometric analysis”

Climate change risk communication: a vaccine hesitancy perspective

This paper is a short commentary that aim is to draw lessons from vaccine hesitancy research and apply them to climate change risk communication. Our central argument was that achieving net-zero carbon emissions will fail if it focuses only on technological solutions and ignores public trust, engagement, and behaviour. Drawing on experience from COVID-19 vaccinationContinue reading “Climate change risk communication: a vaccine hesitancy perspective”