Mindsets for sustainability: exploring the link between mindfulness and sustainable climate adaptation
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Growing globalisation and climate change are challenging the sustainability of our societies. It is now clear that climate change and its devastating impacts cannot be resolved by new technology or governance alone. They require a broader, cultural shift. As a result, the role of human beings' ‘inner dimensions’ and related transformations is attracting increased attention from researchers. Recent advances in neuroscience suggest for instance that mindfulness can open new pathways towards sustainability. However, the role of mindfulness in climate adaptation has been largely ignored. This paper is the first exploratory empirical investigation into linking individuals' intrinsic mindfulness (as opposed to outside mindfulness interventions) to pro- and reactive climate adaptation. Based on a survey of citizens at risk from severe climate events, we explore if, and how individual mindfulness is correlated with climate adaptation at different scales. The results show that individual mindfulness coincides with higher motivation to take climate adaptation actions or to support them, especially actions that are ‘other-focused’ or support pro-environmental behaviour. Mindfulness may also corroborate the acknowledgement of climate change and associated risk perception, and it may steer people away from fatalistic attitudes. We conclude with a call for more research into the relationship between human beings' inner dimensions and climate adaptation in the wider public domain.
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The inner development goals are now seen as essential for making progress on the sustainable development goals.
“Vagal function may provide an appropriate target for objectively measuring the impacts of a wide range of interventions to support connections to self, others and nature, laying the foundations for transformation of the self and progress on the “inner development goals” which are now seen as essential for making progress on the “sustainable development goals” (Wamsler and Brink, 2018; Woiwode et”
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The Introduction (page unavailable) says sustainability challenges require a broader cultural shift, and the Discussion links individual mindfulness to changes relevant to sustainable climate adaptation. The paper does not address the named Inner Development Goals or establish that they are essential for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals; searches for both terms found no such passage. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Wamsler, C., & Brink, E.
- Affiliations
- Lund University (SE)
- Venue
- Ecological Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 151
- Pages
- 55-61
- ISSN
- 0921-8009 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2800928767
- Cited by
- 155
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 29.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Ecological Economics (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas (2011-901)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Keywords
- mindfulness, climate change adaptation, pro-environmental behavior, risk perception, fatalism, climate risk, personal motivation, cultural change
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