23 Sep 2008 – 5:15pm – 8:00pm
Free Climate Change Public Forum. Grand Chancellor. Urgency and agency: How crucial is psychology in addressing the challenges of climate change?
Since people are causing global warming, they also have it in their power to prevent it getting worse.
Union of Concerned Scientists, 2006.
Climate change is arguably the biggest challenge facing the human race.
How can we effectively change human behaviour to tackle climate change and create a sustainable environment for all species, all people and all generations on the planet?
How can psychologists help people adjust and adapt to what is expected to be a very long term and global natural disaster?
Can a sense of urgency be mobilising rather than paralysing?
Can human agency be enhanced and harnessed to save rather than destroy the planet?
Speakers
Prof. David Uzzell, first environmental psychology professor in the UK, environmental spokesperson for the British Psychological Society.
Prof. Beverly Raphael, psychiatrist, international authority on disaster mental health, chair of the National Mental Health Disaster Tasforce.
Dr Barrie Pittock, CSIRO Fellow, author of Climate Change: Turning up the heat.
Assoc. Prof. Joseph Reser, social and environmental psychologist.
Presented by the Australian Psychological Society
Location: Concert Hall, Hotel Grand Chancellor, 1 Davey Street, Hobart. Free entry.
