Ricardo García-Mira

Ricardo García-Mira

Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at
the Department of Psychology of
the University of Corunna, Spain

Applications of Environmental Psychology to environmental policy: Knowledge co-production approaches in transitions towards sustainability.

The role of Environmental Psychology for giving answers to key social challenges has been more and more recognized. This presentation will show also some areas of psychological research providing useful conceptual frameworks for understanding key aspects of global problems, as well as methodologies for exploring interactions between people and the environment. The discussion of human factors involved in transitions towards more sustainable societies, the analysis of environmental risk, and the study of psychological, spatial and temporal processes involved in human behavior, were themes in which the European Environmental Psychology has carried out a lot of activity in the last two decades. This presentation tries to give a vision of this developments in sustainability research, underlying some contributions from trans-disciplinary perspectives in dialogue with other sciences for resolve problems derived from climate change and its application to environmental policy.

Biographical Sketch

Dr Ricardo García Mira is a Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Corunna, Spain.He has been leading the People-Environment Research Group of UDC, where he has conducted applied research in environmental issues during the last 20 years. Recent projects from FP7 programm of the EU: Project Coordinator of the GLAMURS project (2014-2016); Project Coordinator of the LOCAW project (2011-2013), and a partner in TRANSIT (2014-2017). President of the International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS), and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath.He is currently a member of the Parliament of Spain, where he is a Spokesman within the Commission for the Study of Climate Change.

E-mail contact: ricardo.garcia.mira@udc.es