In his newest book, Robert G. Jones uses applied psychology to argue that unique human adaptive strategies can be leveraged to enable sustainable decisions and mitigate the current climate crisis.
A sustainable future requires more than just technological innovation. We must change the way we think and behave to avoid environmental catastrophe. The lessons of applied psychology are crucial in this endeavor. This book combines insights from biological adaptation with a psychological analysis of the ways in which we identify problems, consider solutions, and take action. Dr. Jones examines the complicated web of behaviors and motivations that underlie our sustainability problem, and identifies concrete actions social scientists, policymakers, and individuals can take to help transform ourselves, and our planet, for the better.
For centuries, human beings have transformed our physical environment to service our needs and desires. But today, thanks to the waste and depletion of natural resources and the looming threats of climate change, we must learn to adapt ourselves in order to create a sustainable planet for our children and grandchildren. Sustainable Solutions is written for scholars and students in environmental, applied, and evolutionary psychology, as well as a scholarly and advocacy audience in conservation, sustainability, and environmental studies.
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In his newest book, Robert G. Jones uses applied psychology to argue that unique human adaptive strategies can be leveraged to enable sustainable decisions and mitigate the current climate crisis.
A sustainable future requires more than just technological innovation. We must change the way we think and behave to avoid environmental catastrophe. The lessons of applied psychology are crucial in this endeavor. This book combines insights from biological adaptation with a psychological analysis of the ways in which we identify problems, consider solutions, and take action. Dr. Jones examines the complicated web of behaviors and motivations that underlie our sustainability problem, and identifies concrete actions social scientists, policymakers, and individuals can take to help transform ourselves, and our planet, for the better.
For centuries, human beings have transformed our physical environment to service our needs and desires. But today, thanks to the waste and depletion of natural resources and the looming threats of climate change, we must learn to adapt ourselves in order to create a sustainable planet for our children and grandchildren. Sustainable Solutions is written for scholars and students in environmental, applied, and evolutionary psychology, as well as a scholarly and advocacy audience in conservation, sustainability, and environmental studies.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Beyond Deep Adaptation
Chapter 3: Human Exceptionalism
Chapter 4: Psychological Factors Required for Social Speciation
Chapter 5: Social Margins, Conflict, and Developmental
Change
Chapter 6: Making and Managing Social Ecotones
Chapter 7: Using Social Speciation on Purpose
Chapter 8: Defining Successful Social Speciation
Chapter 9: Taking Action
Chapter 10: Solutions
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Robert G. Jones, PhD is a professor of psychology at Missouri State University. His research and professional interests are in industrial and organizational psychology, and relate to management, prejudice, and ethical decision making. He is author of the textbook Psychology of Sustainability: An Applied Perspective (Routledge, 2015; second edition in progress). Dr. Jones teaches Statistics and Environmental Psychology courses at the undergraduate level and Performance Assessment, Selection, and Internship and Thesis Supervision at the graduate level. His affiliations include Academy of Management, Personnel Psychology: Book Review Editor, Springfield City Council: Member, and Society for I-O Psychology. Dr. Jones's research and professional interests lie in assessment centers, construct validation, emotive perception, feedback responses, job analysis, nepotism, prejudice, and rating and decision biases.
Jones’s call to arms in this fresh approach to the climate crisis
rightly argues that new technology and old ways of making critical
decisions won’t hack it, and we need to call upon the wealth of
current and emerging knowledge in applied psychology to get it
right. The author covers an impressive range of issues, and his
discussions of these and the academic literature are comprehensive,
data driven, and insightful. Key decision makers everywhere should
read this book.
*Nigel Nicholson, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, Emeritus Professor and
Business Evolutionary Psychologist, London Business School, London,
England*
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