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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 ...
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 ...
Beyond Green Consumerism: Uncovering the Motivations of Green Citizenship
(University of Michigan, 2017)
Individual behavior change is a necessary condition for making a positive societal transition to a resource-constrained future. Because we live on a planet with finite resources, behavior change interventions need to move ...
Scale, distribution and variations of global greenhouse gas emissions driven by U.S. households
(Elsevier, 2019-09-10)
The U.S. household consumption, a key engine for the global economy, has significant carbon footprints across the world. Understanding how the U.S. household consumption on specific goods or services drives global greenhouse ...
Some psychological benefits of urban nature: Mental vitality from time spent in nearby nature.
(Nova Science Publishers, 2017)
A one-time era of vast energy and natural resources allowed an industrial civilization to emerge and flourish. This gift of resources allowed for the building of modern society’s infrastructure and the flood of goods and ...
Some strategies for sustaining a walking routine: Insights from experienced walkers
(2013)
This study explores the strategies that experienced walkers felt were most useful for sustaining outdoor walking routines. To investigate this issue, a survey-based instrument was used in combination with a Conceptual ...
A Fuel Efficiency Horizon for U.S. Automobiles
(2010-09)
Improving the fuel efficiency of automobiles (cars and light trucks) is an important means of addressing transportation oil demand and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This report examines the efficiency attainable through ...