01349nam a22001457a 4500 516340 516340 210223b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Weber, Elke U. 25162 Seeing is believing: Understanding & aiding human responses to global climate change Daedalus 149(4), Fall 2020: p.139-150 This essay traces my academic voyage from studying human perceptions of financial risk to the realization that the human response to climate change is a more fundamental and profound challenge. Along the way, I came to realize that different academic disciplines need to be recruited for two purposes: 1) to tell an accurate story about the motivations and processes by which environmental (and other) decisions get made by stakeholders that range from policy-makers in the public and private sector to the general public; and 2) to determine and implement effective and feasible ways of changing the physical, institutional, and social environment to help myopic decision-makers achieve long(er)-term objectives. I see my voyage as an exercise in applied hope, resisting the constraints that disciplines and academia try to place on scholars and helping others to do so as well, by both example and institution-building. - Reproduced Daedalus CLIMATE CHANGE AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 390431 IIPA IIPA 2021-02-23 149(4), Fall 2020: p.139-150 AR124408 2021-02-23 AR