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 »
There’s plenty we can do to make a circular economy a reality, especially through various forms of circular citizenship behaviour.
Recent research recap: circular citizenship behaviors can accelerate the transition Read More »
Political party leaders often claim their plans and policies represent what “the people” want, or at least reflect the opinion of the majority of their voters. Yet our colleagues professor Goda Perlaviciute, associate professor Thijs Bouman, and post doc Žan Mlakar say there is one topic that most voters support that politicians rarely campaign on: stronger climate policy.
“The people at home want solutions”: most voters support strong climate policy Read More »
Congratulations to our colleague associate professor Thijs Bouman for being awarded a prestigious Vidi grant for his project A Climate of Cynicism!
