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.

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眼见为实：理解和帮助人类应对全球气候变化

本文追溯了我的学术之旅，从研究人类对金融风险的认识到认识到人类对气候变化的应对是一个更为根本和深刻的挑战。在此过程中，我逐渐意识到需要出于两个目的招募不同的学科：1）讲一个准确的故事，说明利益相关者（包括决策者）做出环境（及其他）决策的动机和过程在公共和私营部门中向普通公众开放；2）确定并实施有效且可行的方式来改变物质，制度和社会环境，以帮助近视决策者实现长期目标。我把航行看作是充满希望的练习，