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This study examines the relationships between generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling - a community-based free-item sharing pro-environmental behaviour - along with the role of societal factors. Drawing on an online survey of 16,773 participants across 34 countries, the study finds that generalized trust and, unexpectedly, climate change conspiracy beliefs are both positively associated with freecycling participation.

Linda Aspey explores why the therapyprofessions are still so silent on climate change

Editorial introducing a special issue of Journal of Social Work Practice arising from a December 2018 Tavistock and Portman/CPA conference, exploring what psychoanalysis, philosophy, science and activism can contribute to understanding and communicating about ecological disaster and the eco-anxiety it provokes.

Whilst awareness of the importance and urgency of acting to mitigate anthropogenicenvironmental change is generally high, adaptive responses have matched neitherthe scale nor the complex nature of the challenge. Inertia at individual andorganisational levels is a troubling conundrum.In this paper, we analyse the psychosocial factors at work for individuals attemptingto influence their organisations’ pro-environmental actions. Our study focuses on sixindividuals with pro-environmental values who have formal roles in their organisationwith regard to environmental policy, strategy and practice.

This book from the Green House collective offers climate honesty. The time for focusing primarily on mitigation is over. We now need to adapt to the dark reality of climate breakdown. But this means a deep reframing of our entire way of life. The book explores how transformative adaptation might enable us to confront escalating climate chaos while not giving up hope.Facing up to Climate Reality is a book for those brave enough to abandon the illusion of continuing normality, and embark on a harder, truer journey.

Drawing on Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, this study explores the lived experience of six sustainability professionals and leaders in the UK and Canada. It identifies key psychosocial factors shaping their experience - particularly psychological threat-coping strategies, psychological needs, motivation and vitality - and models the complex interactions and trade-offs between them, including tensions between competency, relatedness and autonomy needs and coping strategies such as suppression of negative emotion and a threatened 'deep green' identity.