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This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis. This volume examines the barriers, opportunities and incentives around the pursuit of climate-just behavior, based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary and integrative analysis. It investigates how the gap between expressing concern about the climate crisis and giving it a high priority within the context of everyday behavior can be overcome. At the same time, it looks at the challenging politico-economic framework conditions such as the strong economic growth and profit orientation of capitalism. Although justice is a fundamental human motive, which should induce climate-just behavior, system justification is common and makes people rather justify their unjust behavior. In this book, a general and systemic framework on human behavior is provided, including internal factors, such as knowledge and psychological needs, external factors, such as socio-cultural and politico-economic factors, feedback loops and interactions. The authors draw on multiple theories to examine how denial and moral disengagement affect individual responsibility, despite real-world evidence of the climate crisis. The book highlights the role of emotions in encouraging a pro-environmental response and discusses solutions on both the individual and the collective level, such as transparency laws. Moreover, making climate-friendly options more accessible, affordable and convenient facilitates behavior change more effectively. Overall, this book presents knowledge-based, realistic approaches to surmounting these obstacles in order to achieve a more climate-just world. Climate-Just Behavior will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice, environmental geography and environmental psychology.

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Susanne Stoll-Kleemann is a University Professor and currently works as Chair of Sustainability Science and Applied Geography, University of Greifswald, Germany. There, she heads the Master's program ""Sustainability Geography"". She previously conducted research on the psychology of climate-friendly behavior at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Susanne Nicolai is a psychologist and currently pursuing her doctoral studies on the perception of injustice and moral emotions amidst the climate crisis at the University of Greifswald. Additionally, she actively engages in social movements advocating for climate justice.

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