Insights from environmental psychology research can set up the coalition’s plans for greater acceptability and success, and set up The Netherlands for a more sustainable and just future free from fossil fuels.
The political fate of climate policy proposals is determined not by the loudest but rather by a large group in between.
Climate policies: The swing group that decides their fate Read More »
What do current and former students from the behavioral and social science master’s programme have to say about their experience?
What is it like to study in our master’s programme? Read More »
The Dutch Scientific Climate Council advises the government that the time is now to engage with more effective and integral behavioural policy, and make sustainable choices the norm.
Engage with behavior change: making sustainable and adaptation behavior the norm Read More »
Professor Goda Perlaviciute shares her research insights on public acceptability of sustainable projects, and how public trust depends on who is the developer is, how it is being developed, and how (and how soon) the general public is involved in the decision-making process.
Research from our department and a consensus from international scholars finds time and again that most people worldwide want fossil fuels and their associated harms to be significantly reduced.
A world without fossil fuels Read More »
What motivates employees to be more environmentally-friendly while doing their jobs?
Recent research recap: pro-environmental behavior at work Read More »
Values like the importance of listening to citizens, and to each other, engaging everyone, and ensuring that polluters pay emerged over the months of meetings by the 175 participants in the Dutch National Climate Citizens’ Assembly.
Values rise to the top in Dutch National Climate Citizens Assembly Read More »
Emeritus professor Charles Vlek has written a memorandum (book report) spanning four decades of research done by what is now known as Environmental Psychology Groningen (EP).
How Environmental Psychology Groningen came to be Read More »
What would our energy policy look like if average citizens were included in decisions about energy matters?
Recent research recap: creative capital in energy governance Read More »
