Psychology and climate change

APS resources

• APS Tip Sheet: Coping with climate change: What you can do
  
• APS Tip Sheet: Talking with children about the environment
  
• APS Position Statement: Psychology and climate change
  
• APS Position Statement: Psychology and the natural environment
  
• Summary: Climate change and other environmental problems (37kb)
  
• How psychology can help (37kb)

InPsych articles

• Psychologists’ survey demonstrates Australians climate change concern (InPsych, August 2011)
  
• Understanding the psychological barriers to climate change action (InPsych, December 2010)
  
• International environmental psychologists share their insights (InPsych, October 2010
  
• Climates of change (InPsych, February 2009)
  
• APS responds to the climate change challenge (InPsych December 2008)
  
• The environment features strongly at the APS conference  (InPsych December 2008)
  
• Conflict and the environment (InPsych, December 2008)
  
• Challenging assumptions in the psychology of climate change (InPsych, August 2008)
  
• Lessons learned in developing Our Water Our Future Behaviour Change Framework (InPsych, August 2008)
  
• Managing the impact of climate change in rural communities (InPsych, August 2008)
  
• Environmental psychology: An endangered species? (InPsych, August 2008)
  
• The keys to successful behaviour change (InPsych, December 2006)
  

Also see InPsych: Saving the Planet

• June 2008
  
• April 2008 
  
• February 2008
  
• December 2007 
  
• October 2007  
  
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• December 2006
  
• October 2006
  
• April 2006
  

Links

• APS Psychology and the Environment Interest Group
  The APS Psychology and the Environment Interest Group represents the strong interest of psychologists in relation to the greening of our profession and the profiling of some of the diverse involvements which psychologists have with ‘the environment’, including the urgency of issues such as climate change, habitat loss, water scarcity, and environmental degradation.
  
• Earth Beat: Kids and climate change
  Radio interview with APS psychologist Susie Burke on what message children are getting about climate change and how it affects them
  
• A CLIMATE OF SUFFERING: the real costs of living with inaction on climate change
  Mental health and community wellbeing in the wake of extreme weather  
  
• The Climate and Health Alliance
  The Climate and Health Alliance was formed in August 2010 and is a coalition of organisations and individuals from a broad cross section of the sector, including health care professionals, health care service providers, institutions, academics, researchers, and health care consumers.
  
• Psychologists for a Safe Climate  
  Contributing psychological understanding within the community to support and facilitate strong and urgent action on climate change.
  

Media

• Psychologists call for behaviour change to reduce climate change
• Health Professionals Back Climate Commission Report’s Health Findings 
  Health professionals and public health bodies hold serious concerns regarding the impact of climate change upon the public’s health. Further, they are deeply concerned that few Australians are aware of the risks of climate change for their health or the health of their family and community.
  
• Health Leaders Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change
  Declaration on Climate and Health. Durban South Africa, 2011
  Call to Action on Climate and Health. Durban South Africa, 2011 
  Some of the world’s most prominent health organizations, including global doctors, nurses, medical students and public health federations, the World Health Organization, and others partnered to organize the First Global Climate and Health Summit, which took place in Durban, South Africa in December, 2011. A Declaration on Climate and Health and a Call to Action on Climate and Health have been issued by the conference attendees.