New paper on public visions for sustainable lifestyle change in the UK

[Catherine Cherry]

Dear all,

 

After presenting the initial findings at the SCORAI-ERSCP conference last summer, I'm really happy to share our new paper that we hope will be of interest to those of you working of systems of sustainable consumption. "Discourses of climate inaction undermine public support for 1.5°C lifestyles" is hot off the press today in Global Environmental Change and co-authored by Dr Caroline Verfuerth and Dr Christina Demski.

We conducted novel deliberative visioning workshops across the UK in 2020/2021 to explore public visions of sustainable lifestyle change for a 1.5°C future. We found that while there was strong public support for many low-carbon lifestyle strategies and futures, there are also strong narratives of inaction that undermine this support. We discuss how countering this public discourse of delay is essential for meaningful climate action.

The full article is available free at: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0959-3780(24)00079-7

Our companion project report is also available on the CAST website, showcasing public visions of sustainable lifestyle change in the UK, China and Sweden: Social visions for a low-carbon future (cast.ac.uk)

We hope you enjoy reading and please feel free to share.

 

Catherine

 

Dr. Catherine Cherry

Research Associate/Cyswllt Ymchwil

 

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Cherry, C., Verfuerth, C. & Demski, C. (2024) Social visions for a low-carbon future. CAST report.

 

Cherry, C., Thomas, G., Groves, C., Roberts, E., Shirani, F., Henwood, K., & Pidgeon, N. (2022). A personas-based approach to deliberating local decarbonisation scenarios: Findings and methodological insights. Energy Research & Social Science, 87, 102455.

 

Demski, C., Cherry, C., Verfuerth, C. (2022). The road to net zero: UK public preferences for low-carbon lifestyles. CAST: Briefing paper 14.

 

Cherry, C., Capstick, S., Demski, C., Mellier, C., Stone, L. & Verfuerth, C. (2021) Citizens' climate assemblies: Understanding public deliberation for climate policy. Cardiff: The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations.