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Papies EK, Nielsen KS, Soares VA. Health psychology and climate change: time to address humanity's most existential crisis. Health Psychol Rev 2024:1-31. [PMID: 38320578 DOI: 10.1080/17437199.2024.2309242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food insecurity, pathogenic diseases, societal destabilisation, and armed conflict. Climate change dwarfs all other challenges studied by health psychologists. The greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change disproportionately originate from the actions of wealthy populations in the Global North and are tied to excessive energy use and overconsumption driven by the pursuit of economic growth. Addressing this crisis requires significant societal transformations and individual behaviour change. Most of these changes will benefit not only the stability of the climate but will yield significant public health co-benefits. Because of their unique expertise and skills, health psychologists are urgently needed in crafting climate change mitigation responses. We propose specific ways in which health psychologists at all career stages can contribute, within the spheres of research, teaching, and policy making, and within organisations and as private citizens. As health psychologists, we cannot sit back and leave climate change to climate scientists. Climate change is a health emergency that results from human behaviour; hence it is in our power and responsibility to address it.
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Affiliation(s)
- Esther K Papies
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Krattenmacher J, Casal P, Dutkiewicz J, Huchard E, Sanders E, Treich N, Wadiwel D, Williams A, Bègue L, Cardilini APA, Dhont K, Dugnoille J, Espinosa R, Gagliano M, Lairon D, Maheta M, Mendez L, Nowicki P, Quinn TP, Razum O, Ripple WJ, Rothgerber H, Twine R. Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition. Lancet Planet Health 2023; 7:e354-e355. [PMID: 37164509 DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(23)00082-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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- Jochen Krattenmacher
- Institute of Biotechnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, BIOCEV, Vestec 25250, Czech Republic; Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany.
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- ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University, Law Department, Barcelona, Spain
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- Brooks McCormick Jr Animal Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- School of Psychology, University of New York in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Toulouse School of Economics, INRAE, University Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France.
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- School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University, Law Department, Barcelona, Spain
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- LIP/PC2S, Department of Psychology, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Geelong, VIC, Australia; Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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- Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Biological Intelligence Lab, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia
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- C2VN INSERM-INRAE-AMU, Faculty of Medicine, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK
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Chang KB, Wooden A, Rosman L, Altema-Johnson D, Ramsing R. Strategies for reducing meat consumption within college and university settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1103060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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IntroductionDespite the considerable public and planetary health benefits associated with reducing the amount of meat consumed in high-income countries, there is a limited empirical understanding of how these voluntary changes in food choice can be effectively facilitated across different settings. While prior reviews have given us broad insights into the varying capacities of behavior change strategies to promote meaningful reductions in meat consumption, none have compared how they perform relative to each other within a uniform dining context.MethodsTo address this gap in the literature, we synthesized the available research on university-implemented meat reduction interventions and examined the variations in the success rates and effect estimates associated with each of the three approaches identified in our systematic review.ResultsFrom our analyses of the 31 studies that met our criteria for inclusion (n = 31), we found that most were successful in reducing the amount of meat consumed within university settings. Moreover, independent of the number of individual strategies being used, multimodal interventions were found to be more reliable and effective in facilitating these changes in food choice than interventions targeting the choice architecture of the retail environment or conscious decision-making processes alone.DiscussionIn addition to demonstrating the overall value of behavior change initiatives in advancing more sustainable dining practices on college and university campuses, this study lends further insights into the merits and mechanics underlying strategically integrated approaches to dietary change. Further investigations exploring the persistence and generalizability of these effects and intervention design principles are needed.Systematic review registrationhttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DXQ5V, identifier: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DXQ5V.
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