A future worth pushing for: the role of developing positive future visions in taking environmental political action.

不充分的英国气候变化政策（IPPR 2020）意味着单独改变个人和家庭行为无法实现应对气候和生态危机所需的重大系统变革（IPCC 2018）。个人还必须采取政治行动（定义为改变个人或家庭以外的制度的行动）。大多数英国公众认为有必要进行彻底的改变来减缓气候变化，但大多数人并没有为这种改变采取行动。这个创新的跨学科项目旨在展示积极的未来愿景，作为缩小这种普遍的价值-行动差距的新方法。我把关于变革和幸福的文献结合起来。这项研究有助于英国将政策重点放在适应和减缓气候变化以及子孙后代的福祉上。主要问题：设想积极的未来是否支持环境政治行动？子问题：-这种设想如何增加对可持续发展的社会变革的理解、动机和代理？-审议方法和情感反思在这方面的相对重要性是什么？我的定性实验方法涉及一种干预，让两个不同的小组（每组10人）围绕一个问题制定未来愿景，比如“如果我们有一个可持续发展的地方和英国，每个人都真正幸福，30年后的生活会是什么样子？”他们将与不进行干预的对照组进行比较。小团体在变革中是有效的。我将从德文郡和康沃尔郡几个地方的社区团体、当地企业和社交媒体上发布的在线问卷调查的受访者中随机分层选择参与者。我将遵守GDPR和匿名、保密和知情同意的原则。

Insufficient UK climate change policy (IPPR 2020) means individual and household behaviour change alone cannot achieve the significant system change needed to address the climate and ecological crisis (IPCC 2018). Individuals must also take political action (defined as action to change systems beyond the individual or household). A majority of the UK public consider radical change necessary to mitigate climate change, but most are not acting for such change. This innovative interdisciplinary project aims to demonstrate positive future visioning as a novel method of closing this prevalent value-action gap. I combine literatures on transformative change and wellbeing. The research contributes to UK policy focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation, and wellbeing of future generations. Research questions Main question: does envisioning positive futures support environmental political action? Sub-questions: - How does such envisioning increase understanding, motivation, and agency in enacting social transformations for sustainability? - What is the relative importance in this of deliberative methodologies and emotional reflection? Methodology My qualitative experimental methodology involves an intervention engaging two diverse groups of 10 people in developing a future vision around a question like 'how could life look in 30 years if we had a sustainable local area and UK, with true wellbeing for everyone?'. They will be compared to a no-intervention control group. Small groups are effective in transformative change. I will recruit participants using random stratified selection from respondents to an online questionnaire advertised via community groups, local businesses and social media in several locations in Devon and Cornwall. I will adhere to GDPR and principles of anonymisation, confidentiality and informed consent.