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The Four Horsemen of Inaction

In this first episode of the Projet Cassandre, I host Claude Garcia, an ecologist and professor of international forest governance at Bern University of Applied Sciences. For the past 30 years, Claude has been exploring tropical regions to observe how people make decisions about land use, and has been developing methods to transform the way we view ecological issues through the use of games. In 2021, he and his team co-published the study “Choices We Make in Times of Crisis” in the journal Sustainability, proposing a framework for understanding behaviours deemed irrational in the climate debate: the four-door system. This is a powerful and accessible theoretical framework for understanding communication barriers and identifying levers for action.