Decentralized wastewater treatment systems can help mitigate the water crisis. Their successful implementation depends not only on their technological design but also on the level of public support.
We introduce the Climate Anxiety Compass: a framework that classifies strategies individuals can use to cope with climate anxiety along three dimensions: (a) problem-focused or emotion-focused, (b) mitigation or adaptation, and (c) individually oriented or collectively oriented.
We explain in this essay why votes for new-right political parties should not be interpreted as votes against governmental climate action.
The public demands more climate action, not less Read More »
We introduce a collection of experimental paradigms that allow researchers to examine when and how consumer movements can provoke a change across a social network over time: social tipping paradigms grounded in game theory.
Social Tipping Games: Experimental Paradigms for Studying Consumer Movements Read More »
In contrast to conventional wisdom, decision-making power was not the key driver of public acceptability of the Dutch Citizen Assembly on Energy — engaging in dialogue and deliberation might be more important to citizens than having more power per se.
Results of three experimental studies and surveys (Ntotal = 3135) conducted in four EU countries show that community members’ involvement, but not external parties’ involvement, in CEI governance promotes perceived efficacy and identity leadership of the CEI, and thereby its acceptability and people’s willingness to join.
This perspective paper argues how a social network approach can contribute to creating a more comprehensive picture of how individual and community characteristics influence participation in community energy initiatives (CEIs).
A social network approach to community energy initiative participation Read More »
All carbon dioxide removal options come with varying environmental externalities, costs, and social implications, thus requiring a multidisciplinary approach for the analysis. The NEGEM project15 has taken many of these necessary steps to study the deployment of responsible negative emissions and their contribution to achieving climate neutrality.
Responsible carbon dioxide removals and the EU’s 2040 climate target Read More »
Perceived value similarity and trust in institutions are higher when people perceive institutions to have stronger biospheric values than themselves and when they expect institutions to be less egoistic than themselves.
Associate professor Goda Perlaviciute proposes a paradigm shift that creates explicit room for citizens’ values in citizen assemblies (CAs). Using concrete examples, she illustrates how every step of CAs could be transformed to elicit citizens’ values: from citizen selection, to setting the remit, facilitating the discussion, and shaping and institutionalizing policy recommendations.
Citizen assemblies should involve citizens as experts on their own values Read More »
