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Circular citizenship behaviours to promote systemic change: Influences of values, beliefs, norms, and personal agency
Our findings highlight much untapped potential for systemic change through citizen action and offer insights into how engagement in Circular Citizenship Behaviours (CCBs) might be promoted.
An opinion dynamics approach to model and analyze the behavior of consumers in an energy network
Motivated by theories and evidence from the social psychology literature, we propose a novel continuous-time mathematical model that captures the evolution of motivation and behavior of energy consumers in a social network.
A deep dive below the human surface: The effect of basic human values on coastal residents’ and tourists’ marine personal norm, mediated by marine value orientations
This research enhances theoretical understanding of how basic human values and value orientations relate to each other and to feelings of responsibility to protect marine environments. In addition, it provides practical insights for engaging the public in marine conservation efforts.
Restoring landscapes to build common futures: Land redistribution and environmental action in rural Scotland
By centering local agency, affective ties to place, and democratic governance, restorative commoning offers a pathway for more inclusive and sustainable approaches to landscape revitalisation.
Engagement of citizens in energy governance: unravelling participatory capital for energy sufficiency in France and the Netherlands
We developed the “Participatory Capital Framework” to illustrate the willingness and ability of citizens to participate in energy decision-making and stimulate energy efficiency and sufficiency strategies.
Forest or machine? Public perceptions and acceptability of negative emissions technologies and practices across six European countries
We conducted a large scale survey on NETPs in six EU countries (N = 5,310) to examine: (1) public preferences for NETPs, next to other mitigation options; (2) how people evaluate the environmental and intergenerational consequences and acceptability of nature-based (i.e., afforestation and reforestation; AR) and technology-based NETPs (i.e., direct air capture with carbon storage; DACCS); (3) the relationship between the evaluation of consequences and acceptability judgements of AR and DACCS; and (4) public preferences for AR and DACCS in general versus in their own country.
Citizens’ creative capital in energy governance: enacting inclusive energy governance in the Netherlands and France
We identify citizens’ “creative capital” for energy governance and argue that this brings added value for designing energy governance for a more socially, politically and environmentally sustainable energy system.
Entrepreneurs of sustainable identity in groups that value similarity or diversity: trajectories of change
Contrary to prior work suggesting that vegans evoke resistance, our findings demonstrate shifts towards veg*nism in participants' attitudes, behaviors, and biospheric values.