News for CESSS
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Can climate-related emotions and ambivalent attitudes explain emerging adults’ climate-friendly food choices?
While people can help mitigate climate change by making more climate-friendly food choices, trying to live in a sustainable way in a largely unsustainable society is not always easy. What drives young people towards making climate-friendly food choices...
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Inclusion does not ensure that Indigenous peoples’ knowledge and interests are taken into account
In processes of global governance, it is highly important to be inclusive and allow all concerned groups to make contributions. However, inclusion in itself does not necessarily say anything about whether or not it is possible for groups to meaningfully...
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Emotions in climate change education – why are they so important to consider?
The severity of global sustainability problems tends to evoke worry and anxiety in young people, and climate change education can amplify these feelings. While worry and anxiety might negatively affect students’ well-being, they can also be a motivating...
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Making environmental knowledge usable in a pluralism of expertise
In recent years, the view on environmental expertise has become more pluralistic to not only include scientific knowledge, but by also focusing on indigenous and local knowledge. While this transdisciplinarity is important when facing climate issues,...
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Conceptual development in understanding ethical consumption: Why we need a multilevel framework
In a recent article in Open Research Europe, Sara Karimzadeh and Magnus Boström, both affiliated with CESSS, challenge the oversimplified focus on individualistic factors in explaining ethical consumption, and argue for the importance of considering...
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Rethinking the boundaries of environmental expertise and the importance of lay knowledge
Scientific expertise is a core component of environmental discourse and one that is used to establish as well as scrutinize claims about climate change. Environmental scientific expertise has been important for setting climate change on the global policy...
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Climate change anxiety investigated in one of the largest international studies to date
Maria Ojala, affiliated with CESSS, is a co-author in one of the biggest multinational studies yet about young adults and climate change-related distress. Main author to the newly published article is Charles Ogunbode at Nottingham University. The study...
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New research school about sustainable water usage and societal planning
Erik Hysing and Monika Berg, affiliated with CESSS, were part of a successful application to Formas for 36.8 million SEK dedicated to starting a cross-disciplinary research school. The main applicant was Ida Andersson, associate professor in Human...
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Creating environmental expertise in early-career researchers
The role of an academic is to generate and communicate knowledge through research, teaching, and service engagement for the general public. Balancing these three tasks is not always easy. But could engagement in expert organizations help foster...
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How do young people relate to climate change, and what can developmental psychologists learn from it?
What insights can developmental psychology get from climate-change research with young people? In a narrative review published in the European Journal of Developmental Psychology, Maria Ojala provides an overview of research that has focused on young...
