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  • Anthropogenic impacts increasingly challenge environmental systems.
  • Accurate climate change forecasting requires integrating human behavior feedbacks.
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  • To survey existing Social Climate Models (SCMs).
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  • To advance the development of Earth system models.

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  • Literature survey of current Social Climate Models.
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Main Results:

  • Identified a need for enhanced human behavior integration in climate models.
  • Proposed a framework encompassing cognition, contagion, and behavioral response.
  • Highlighted the role of biases, habituation, social norms, and learning.

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  • The proposed framework offers a structured approach to modeling human behavior.
  • Further development of SCMs is a critical next step for Earth system modeling.