Social and Economic Impacts

 

  1. The Gulf of Mexico at a Glance. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, developed in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gulf of Mexico Program, for the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, June 2008

 

Summary: The Gulf of Mexico at a Glance presents regional aggregations of selected economic activities that are focused in coastal and ocean areas, as well as selected social and environmental attributes of the region.

 

  1. Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing by Doug McKenzie-Mohr

 

Summary: While conventional marketing can help create public awareness, social marketing identifies and overcomes barriers to long-lasting behavior change. Fostering Sustainable Behavior details how to uncover the barriers that prevent people from engaging in sustainable behaviors and provides a set of tools to help foster behavior change.

 

  1. The Psychology of Climate Change Communication: A Guide for Scientists, Journalists, Educators, Political Aides and the Interested Public. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. October 2009 (PDF 3.7MB)

 

Summary: This guide powerfully details many of the biases and barriers to scientific communication and information processing. It offers a tool—in combination with rigorous science, innovative engineering and effective policy design—to help our societies take the pivotal actions needed to respond with urgency and accuracy to one of the greatest challenges ever faced by humanity: global-scale, human-induced environmental threats, of which the most complex and far reaching is climate change.


Other supplemental resources for social and economic impacts

 

  1. Applications of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, Cancer Prevention Research Center (PDF 316MB)

 

Summary: This theoretical model of behavior changes has been the basis for developing effective interventions to promote health behavior change. The model describes how people modify a problem behavior or acquire a positive behavior. The central organizing construct of the model is the Stages of Change.

 

  1. Climate Change and the Economy: Expected Impacts and their Implications. Bipartisan Policy Center and The National Commission on Energy Policy (PDF 2.8MB)

 

Summary: The publications evaluated some of the economic costs related to particular climate-sensitive resources - from water in New Mexico, to infrastructure in Alaska, to forests in Idaho and Montana, to coastlines in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina.

 

  1. The Resilient Coast: Policy frameworks for adapting the built environment to climate change and growth in coastal areas of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Texas Sea Grant, August 2007 (PDF 3.1MB)

 

Summary: The Resilient Coast examined the existing legal and institutional frameworks for adapting to growth and climate change in the Gulf States.It also identifies a set of guidelines that the states can use to adapt to coastal change.

 

  1. Understanding an Audience’s Social Values: Communicating with American with different worldviews on global warming. The Climate Leadership Initiative. February 5, 2010.

 

Summary: This publication segments the American public into ten distinct groups based on how people think of the environment and their role in protecting it.