Wednesday 22 July 09:50
- 11:20
Hall: 24 - Room 3 SPT
Chair:
Steinebach Christoph
Co-Chair:
Carrus Giuseppe
Discussant:
Di Fabio Annamaria
Division: Division 4: Environmental Psychology
This symposium will discuss the issue of adaptation to climate change, and its psychological correlates. From a psychological perspective, we argue that adapting to climate change and its consequences involves processes of both assimilation and accommodation. In both processes, the adaptation task requires an optimal development under more difficult conditions. Understanding adaptation to climate change, and its underlying psychological factors, requires solid and evidence-based psychological research as well as an interdisciplinary dialogue with other sciences, in parallel to a self-reflective effort on the changed self-image of psychology as a science and a profession. Therefore, processes and paths to climate change adaptation can be understood, from a psychological perspective, with a focus on individual, communities and the global environment, and with a wide range of concepts, theories, methods and interventions.
