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a meta-analysis of published and unpublished research examining the relation between pro-environmental behavior and wellbeing/happiness

Les valeurs sont des objectifs ou des idéaux souhaitables et généraux qui transcendent les situations spécifiques. Les valeurs servent de principes directeurs dans la vie d’une personne ou d’autres entités sociales, orientant leurs décisions, leurs attitudes et leurs comportements (Schwartz, 1992). Les valeurs sont considérées comme universelles, ce qui signifie que tous les individus et toutes les entités sociales sont censés les endosser dans une certaine mesure. Cependant, l’importance que les individus et les entités sociales attachent à chaque valeur varie, les valeurs les plus fortement approuvées influençant généralement plus fortement les décisions, les attitudes et les comportements.

Human behaviour change is necessary to meet targets set by the Paris Agreement to mitigate climate change. Restrictions and regulations put in place globally to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 have had a substantial impact on everyday life, including many carbon-intensive behaviours such as transportation. Changes to transportation behaviour may reduce carbon emissions. Behaviour change theory can offer perspective on the drivers and influences of behaviour and shape recommendations for how policy-makers can capitalise on any observed behaviour changes that may mitigate climate change. For this commentary, we aimed to describe changes in data relating to transportation behaviours concerning working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. We display these identified changes in a concept map, suggesting links between the changes in behaviour and levels of carbon emissions. We consider these changes in relation to a comprehensive and easy to understand model of behaviour, the Opportunity, Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model, to understand the capabilities, opportunities and behaviours related to the observed behaviour changes and potential policy to mitigate climate change. There is now an opportunity for policy-makers to increase the likelihood of maintaining pro-environmental behaviour changes by providing opportunities, improving capabilities and maintaining motivation for these behaviours.

Menselijk gedrag, en in het bijzonder groepsprocessen, spelen een belangrijke rol in de transitie naar natuurinclusieve landbouw. Vanaf het begin moet je de relatie tussen de boer en de maatschappij meenemen, vinden Thijs Bouman en Lise Jans, beiden werkzaam als universitair docent bij de vakgroep Omgevingspsychologie van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

Vanuit de wetenschap wordt van alle kanten naar het spreekwoord gekeken, de achtergrond belicht én worden er proeven gedaan om de veronderstelde waarheid te toetsen. Deze proeven kunnen ook door de lezer zelf uitgevoerd worden. Op basis van deze proeven trekken we de conclusie welke spreekwoorden nog actueel zijn en welke kunnen worden bijgezet in het mausoleum van achterhaalde waarheden.

To reach global climate targets, it is key that individuals support and undertake climate action. What motivates such actions? We discuss how climate actions are rooted in – and motivated by – values, which reflect stable and general life goals that guide individuals’ behaviours. We focus on the often studied personal values, as well as on the relatively new perceived group values, and discuss how these can motivate, and be used to promote, climate action. We highlight the importance of biospheric values (i.e., caring about the environment), and the key role perceived group values play in promoting climate action, particularly among less personally motivated individuals.

The report presents the results of a multi-country survey providing qualitative and quantitative information on the Value of Lost Load, an indicator of the economic value of unserved energy during electricity outages (blackouts). The point of view of residential consumers in the electricity market is explored through a discrete choice experiment. The results, in-line with other studies in this framework, highlight that respondents are willing to support further increases in the reliability and quality of electricity supply. Furthermore, consumers are found to have as aversion toward the possibility of losing their current security. Using a random parameter logit, we show that the ways to perceive the losses of security are remarkably dispersed. The survey was conducted in Estonia, the Netherlands and Portugal.

The availability and continuity of energy supply play a key role in qualifying the energy security of a country. This report explores the meaning of energy security, according to the perceptions and preferences of a broad range of market actors. Making use of interviews and survey data taken in Estonia, the Netherlands and Portugal, the importance of an encompassing set of policy topics/measures is explored and described to investigate the relevance of different dimensions of energy security. The perspectives of residential, industrial and commercial energy users, Distribution System Operators, electricity retailers and producers are analysed rating and ranking the relevance of policy components of energy security. The study provides a snapshot of potential gaps and discrepancies among the views of different categories of market actors and compares information on their beliefs and preferences with those stated by households and the other market actors. This enables to identify any consensus on the different components of energy security., JRC.C.3-Energy Security, Distribution and Markets