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Decision Making Under Uncertainty at AAAS

by Courtney St. John | 2.15.2013 at 4:26pm

Researchers from the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions will participate in a poster session featuring the work of each center funded under the National Science Foundation’s “Decision Making Under Uncertainty” grant. Nada Petrovic and Lisa Zaval will present the poster “What’s in a frame when it comes to fossil fuels: Does health matter more than climate change?” and Matt Sisco will present the poster “Why do people care about sea lions? A fishing game to study the value of endangered species.”

Category> Climate, Global Health Tags> AAAS 2013, CRED, health, policy

Changing Household Behavior to Reduce Carbon Emissions

by Courtney St. John | 1.10.2013 at 1:26pm | 1 Comment

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Actions by individuals and households to reduce carbon-based energy consumption have the potential to change the picture of U.S. energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in the near term by integrating insights from the behavioral and social sciences.

Category> Energy Tags> behavior, CRED, Energy, Weber

Managing Hazard Risk and Weather Extremes at AGU

by Courtney St. John | 12.3.2012 at 4:04pm

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Researchers from the Earth Institute’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions will present their work at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco this week. Psychology doctoral candidate Katherine Thompson will present a poster entitled “The Psychology of Hazard Risk Perception”; and visiting research scholar Diana Reckien will present a poster entitled “Realities of Weather Extremes on Daily Life in Urban India—How Quantified Impacts Infer Sensible Adaptation Options.”

Category> Climate, Natural Disasters, Urbanization Tags> American Geophysical Union, american geophysical union 2012, Climate, CRED, India, natural hazards, psychology, Weather

Understanding the Mind as the Temperature Climbs

by Earth Institute | 6.28.2011 at 1:36pm | 2 Comments

Warnings of potentially cataclysmic climate change have reached nearly every newspaper front page and legislative chamber around the globe since the 1990s. So why has the human response been so limited?

Category> Climate Tags> climate and society, climate change, Climate Change and Decision Making, CRED, psychology