Climate Change: Why Do Social Sciences Matter?

New short film highlights the significance of the social sciences in the addressing the climate emergency

In this 5-minute film, Professor of Political Sociology, Stephen Fisher joins researchers from the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment and PEAK Urban project to to highlight the key role social scientists must play in addressing critical, climate-related challenges, from understanding how people feel about climate change, what they want to have done about climate change through to how they can resolve the problems arising from climate change. 

 

"The social sciences are key to solving climate change, because climate change is embedded in everything that we do."

 

 

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