Gratifying Transitions

Maintaining Wellbeing in the Face of Climate Change

AvSøren Harnow Klausen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Concerns for future human wellbeing play a central role in climate change debate and policy making but have received scarce attention in climate change ethics. Gratifying Transitions: Maintaining Wellbeing in the Face of Climate Change remedies this by considering whether and how we can live a good and satisfying life under constraints caused by climate change. Drawing on behavioral psychology and theories of self-cultivation, the author argues that green transition requires that we work actively with wellbeing, as moral beliefs, knowledge about climate change, or new understandings of the relationship between humans and nature are unlikely to bring about the necessary changes in behavior. Contrary to a widespread view, the author further argues that subjective wellbeing rather than basic needs satisfaction is the most appropriate notion of wellbeing for addressing climate change issues. The book contains both detailed philosophical arguments and concrete guidelines for how to foster a transition to more sustainable, but still sufficiently rewarding, ways of living, individually as well as collectively.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-22
Mått:150 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Key Issues in Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethics, Politics and Policy
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666914412

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Søren Harnow Klausen is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction1.1 The role of wellbeing in responding to climate change 1.2 Wellbeing and change1.3 Wellbeing, motivation and action1.4 Views on the relationship between climate change, climate action and wellbeing1.4 Why not gamble on green growth?1.5 Why not just politics?1.6 Wellbeing for whom?1.7 An interdisciplinary, philosophy-driven approachChapter 2: Life in the Future2.1 The ubiquity of change2.2 Change for better or worse?2.3 Going through changes2.4 Quantity and quality of change2.5 Living with climate change2.6 Living with mitigationChapter 3: A Theory of Wellbeing for Green Transition3.1 A plethora of theories and a provisional assessment3.2 Problems with subjective wellbeing? Immeasurability, growth ideology and adaptation3.3 Virtues of subjective wellbeing3.4 Growth ideology and individualism?3.5 Why not a needs approach?3.6 Genuinely basic needs?3.7 Adaptation for good and for bad3.8 Richer and poorer lives3.9 Getting the most out of it: Cultivation as the key?3.10 Putting it together: A theory of wellbeing for green transitionChapter 4: Living with Change4.1 Remaining, losing and becoming yourself4.2 The shape, meaning and management of life4.3 Temporal styles and agents of change4.4 Keeping the good things alive – variation as the key to wellbeing?4.4 Values and impacts of personal changeChapter 5: Shaping behavior: Self-control, cultivation and emulation5.1 The bad news: How not to change behavior5.2 The (somewhat) better news: How we might change behavior5.3 Limits of behavioral design5.4 Bildung to the rescue?5.5 Getting it right: Bildung and the situationist challenge5.6 Bildung and behavior change as social process5.7 Return of the environmental humanities?Chapter 6: Acceptable Transitions6.1 Only soft interventions?6.2 Goodbye to liberalism?6.3 Harm and sustainability6.4 Learning from the pandemic6.5 Realism, but not too much: Balancing feasibility concerns and the role of hope6.6 Moral aesthetics6.7 Unjustified interventions?Chapter 7: Changemaking: Gratifying transitions and strategies for green transitionCoda: Living with change in an uncertain worldReferences About the Author