This conference brings together scholars from across campus and elsewhere who have done work illuminating human thinking and action related to the environment and sustainability.

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters, contributing to water shortages, and threatening biodiversity, with disparate impacts across communities. Effectively addressing climate change requires considering behavior at various scales—from individual, to collective, to systemic—and in different social-ecological contexts. This conference will bring together leading scholars conducting research on how human behavior, embedded in social-ecological systems, responds to environmental change and in turn shapes those systems. This research can inform our understanding of how to strengthen the resilience of communities worldwide while also mobilizing action to address climate change.

The conference will include scholars focusing on aspects of the behavioral science of climate change including, but not limited to:

• Social norms, social identity, and morality
• Positive and negative emotions
• Climate activism and advocacy
• Political polarization and misinformation spread
• Policy design and communication
• Human-nature interactions
• Decision-making under risk and uncertainty