Empowerment di comunità e crisi ambientali
Course Content
History, theory, research, and practical aspects related to environmental psychology.
Theoretical models and conceptualization of fundamental psychological dynamics, both individual and community-based, underpinning pro-environmental behaviors.
Theoretical models and intervention strategies for individual and community-level empowerment and resilience in the face of the climate crisis.
Course program
Section 1 - A brief history and some definitions
Section 2 - Main research methods in environmental psychology
Section 3 - Perception, understanding and risk
Section 4 - Defining and Measuring Pro-Environmental Behaviours (PEBS)
Section 5 - Cognitive Dissonance, Personality, Sociodemographics and PEBS
Section 6 - Values, Beliefs, Concerns, Attitudes and PEBs
Section 8 - Social Norms and PEBS
Section 10 - Social dilemmas and PEBS
Section 12 - Habits and Automatic PEBS
Section 13 - Environmental communication
Section 14 - VirtHuLab Tools RTC, E-Loc, and WAFER
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
The course will support goals 10 and 13 of the 2030 Agenda, i.e., "Reduce inequality", “acting for climate”, stimulating students to develop solutions and proposals aimed at enhancing and promoting pro-environmental behaviours, especially for minority and stigmatized groups. The course will support also objective 5 (i.e., gender equality), stimulating interest in a sex and gender fair approach to research and intervention.