Leaving No One Behind: Climate Change as a Societal Challenge for Social Justice and Solidarity

Michèlle Bal; Marijn Stok

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93795-9_17

Leaving No One Behind: Climate Change as a Societal Challenge for Social Justice and Solidarity

Michèlle Bal^*, Marijn Stok

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Abstract

In this chapter, we explain the role of environmental justice principles in people’s motivation to engage in sustainable behaviour. Subsequently, these principles are placed in the larger framework of Value-Belief-Norm-theory. We argue that these motivational accounts of sustainable behaviour fall short in explaining people’s decisions to engage in sustainable behaviour. First, besides motivation, people’s capabilities and opportunities may influence such behaviours, creating social inequality in sustainability transitions. We illustrate this with a case study on Dutch social housing residents’ attitudes toward a sustainable building renovation. Second, some people may be sceptical about climate change, which could also inhibit sustainable behaviour. Taken together, this chapter raises multiple questions regarding solidarity and social justice that warrant further discussion in the transition to more sustainable societies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies
Subtitle of host publication	An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Inequalities
Editors	Mara A. Yerkes, Michèlle Bal
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	17
Pages	181-189
Number of pages	9
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030937959
ISBN (Print)	9783030937942
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93795-9_17
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2022

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Keywords

(Energy transition)
(Environmental justice)
Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate change mitigation
Climate scepticism
Ecological environmental justice
Global environmental justice
Green identity
Intergenerational environmental justice
Self-enhancing values
Self-transcending values
Sustainability transitions
Sustainable behaviour (intentions)
Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory

UN SDGs

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Leaving No One Behind: Climate Change as a Societal Challenge for Social Justice and Solidarity. / Bal, Michèlle ; Stok, Marijn.
Solidarity and Social Justice in Contemporary Societies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Inequalities. ed. / Mara A. Yerkes; Michèlle Bal. 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 181-189.

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Leaving No One Behind: Climate Change as a Societal Challenge for Social Justice and Solidarity

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