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Slow wins: Patience, perseverance and behavior change.
(2011)
It is easy to despair at the unsustainability of human behavior; however, such despair may come from taking too narrow and pessimistic a view of human nature. Behavior change does happen but durable change happens only ...
Localization: Small experiments for the coming downshift
(2013-10-24)
The circumstances being faced are urgent, some global, many overwhelming. It would seem that only large responses will suffice. But this is a version of the homeopathic delusion (Berry 2011): here that only large solutions ...
Forecasting the Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles on Energy Use: A Microeconomic Study of Induced Travel and Energy Rebound
(Elsevier, 2019-06-04)
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are expected to yield significant improvements in safety, energy efficiency, and time utilization. However, their net effect on energy and environmental outcomes is unclear. Higher ...
Supporting Behavioural Entrepreneurs: Using the Biodiversity-Health Relationship to Help Citizens Self-Initiate Sustainability Behaviour
(Springer Nature, 2019-06-12)
Techno-industrial societies face biophysical limits and the consequences of disrupting Earth’s ecosystems. This creates a new behavioural context with an unmistakable demand: Citizens of such societies must turn from seeking ...
Assessing Potential Non-Economic Loss & Damage from Climate Change, Partnership with the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
(2018-01-01)
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), non- economic loss and damage (NELD) has emerged as a new concept to capture the full extent of potential loss or damage of factors that cannot be ...
Volunteer Environmental Stewardship and Affective Labour in Philadelphia
(2018-03-26)
Recent research has critically evaluated the rapid growth of volunteer urban environmental stewardship. Framings of this phenomenon have largely focused upon environmentality and/or neoliberal environments, unfortunately ...
Restoring mental vitality in an endangered world: Reflections on the benefits of walking.
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2010-03)
Coping with the challenges of global climate disruption and the peaking of the rate of fossil fuel production will require behavioral change on a massive scale. There are many skills that will help individuals deal with ...
Environmental psychology overview
(Routledge, 2013)
Environmental psychology is a field of study that examines the interrelationship
between environments and human affect, cognition, and behavior (Bechtel & Churchman, 2002; Gifford , 2007; Stokols & Altman ,1987). The field ...
Influence of invasive quagga mussels, phosphorus loads, and climate on spatial and temporal patterns of productivity in Lake Michigan: A biophysical modeling study
(2017)
These animations were created using output from a lower food web model linked to a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model. The lower food web was represented using a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton-detritus (NPZD) model ...