Climate policies: The swing group that decides their fate
The political fate of climate policy proposals is determined not by the loudest but rather by a large group in between.
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What is it like to study in our master’s programme?
What do current and former students from the behavioral and social science master’s programme have to say about their experience?
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Engage with behavior change: making sustainable and adaptation behavior the norm
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.
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Public perceptions and acceptability of sustainable transitions depend on who is developing them, how they’re developing and when the public is involved
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.
A world without fossil fuels
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.
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Recent research recap: pro-environmental behavior at work
What motivates employees to be more environmentally-friendly while doing their jobs?
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Values rise to the top in Dutch National Climate Citizens Assembly
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.
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How Environmental Psychology Groningen came to be
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).
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Recent research recap: creative capital in energy governance
What would our energy policy look like if average citizens were included in decisions about energy matters?
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Recent research recap: circular citizenship behaviors can accelerate the transition
There’s plenty we can do to make a circular economy a reality, especially through various forms of circular citizenship behaviour.
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