Seeing Is Believing

This essay traces my academic voyage from studying human perceptions of financial risk to the realization that the human response to climate change is a more fundamental and profound challenge. Along the way, I came to realize that different academic disciplines need to be recruited for two purposes: 1) to tell an accurate story about the motivations and processes by which environmental (and other) decisions get made by stakeholders that range from policy-makers in the public and private sector to the general public; and 2) to determine and implement effective and feasible ways of changing the physical, institutional, and social environment to help myopic decision-makers achieve long(er)-term objectives. I see my voyage as an exercise in applied hope, resisting the constraints that disciplines and academia try to place on scholars and helping others to do so as well, by both example and institution-building

Business · Climate change · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Institution · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Realization (probability · Social science · Sociology · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Ecology · Engineering · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Housing Market and Economics · Psychology

• Positive emotions and climate change

  Open Access•Claudia R Schneider, Lisa Zaval et al.•Current Opinion in Behavioral…•2021

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• Analyzing single-action bias in dynamic climate change environments

  Open Access•Gitanshu Choudhary, Dutt et al.•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2024

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• The Significance of Financial Competence and Risk Tolerance in Home-Related Expenditure by Jurisdiction and Regime

  Gordon L Clark, Gordon Clark et al.•Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeograph…•2021

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• Climate change discourse on Chinese social media

  Open Access•Fang Yu, Yu Feng et al.•Journal of Environmental Studies…•2026

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