From values to climate action
Policies and contextual changes that reduce contextual barriers can motivate and enable individuals to act on their biospheric values.
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2021
Leveraging emotion for sustainable action
In this perspective, we summarize recent research emphasizing the central and indispensable role of emotion in human thinking and judgment.
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Minority influence in climate change mitigation
Pro-environmental minorities can pave the way towards ‘tipping points’ and spontaneous social change.
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The effects of a financial incentive on motives and intentions to commute to work with public transport in the short and long term
Participants rated the financial motives to commute to work using public transport as less important after the incentive was removed, suggesting that financial incentives provide people with a temporary motive to engage in the desired behaviour, which may explain the short-term effectiveness of the incentive.
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being
Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we systematically assess the mitigation potential of demand-side options categorized into avoid, shift and improve, and their human well-being links.
Promoting energy sources as environmentally friendly: does it increase public acceptability?
Highly environmentally friendly energy sources were more acceptable and evaluated more positively, especially among people who strongly endorsed biospheric values.
The more public influence, the better? The effects of full versus shared influence on public acceptability of energy projects in the Netherlands and China
Results showed that having full influence over decision making (e.g., citizen control) did not lead to higher public acceptability of the decision-making process, final decision and resulting project, compared to having shared influence (e.g., partnership).
Contested climate policies and the four Ds of public participation: From normative standards to what people want
Based on a vast body of interdisciplinary literature, four types of normative standards for effective public participation can be distilled, which I call the four Ds: dialogue, decision-making power, diversity, and deliberation.
Values in the backyard: The relationship between people’s values and their evaluations of a real, nearby energy project
The more strongly people endorsed biospheric values (i.e., caring about nature and the environment) and altruistic values (i.e., caring about others), the more negatively they evaluated gas extraction and the induced earthquakes.
Pro-environmental behaviour and support for environmental policy as expressions of pro-environmental motivation
Our results imply that policymakers can encourage people to both behave pro-environmentally and support environmental policy without concern that one might impede the other.