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Nutrition & Dietetics
Romain Espinosa, Anis Nassar
Summary: The study proposes and tests a model of food policy acceptability, focusing on the impact of awareness, legitimacy, and social norms at the topic level, as well as the expected effectiveness, targeting consumers, and perceived support at the policy level. Coercive interventions and generating inequalities are found to be less acceptable, with a trade-off between coerciveness, effectiveness, and acceptability. Participants who are aware of the issue are more likely to support coercive policies.
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Environmental Studies
Rachel Pechey, James P. Reynolds, Brian Cook, Theresa M. Marteau, Susan A. Jebb
Summary: Policies to reduce meat consumption are important for achieving climate change targets and improving population health. This study found that less than half of UK adults support such policies, but there is considerable scope to influence public opinion in support of meat reduction measures to meet environmental and health goals.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Jonn Axsen, Michael Wolinetz
Summary: Strict road pricing can effectively reduce GHG emissions for passenger vehicles in the short and long term, and can complement vehicle efficiency regulations. Equity and political acceptability can be enhanced through careful design of exemptions and revenue usage. Implementing road pricing policies involves stakeholder consultation, clear communication of benefits, demonstration phases, referendums, and ideally political party agreement.
Article
Economics
Andres Arcila, John D. Baker
Summary: Heralded as a groundbreaking experiment in carbon tax policy, the Canadian province of British Columbia implemented a carbon tax in 2008. However, new data suggests that CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption have actually increased in recent years. Using synthetic control analysis, we find that contrary to theoretical expectations, CO2 emissions and gasoline consumption rose in British Columbia compared to the synthetic control, but there was a reduced share of economic activity in the energy industry.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pravesh Raghoo, Kalim U. Shah
Summary: The study indicates that carbon pricing policies mainly spread through learning from neighboring countries, and sometimes through imitation. Both carbon tax and cap-and-trade systems diffuse through the learning mechanism, with cap-and-trade also able to diffuse through coercion and normative pressure from EU member countries. Additionally, the adoption of carbon pricing policy by a country is driven by democratic political regimes and the level of coal production in the country.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Economics
Hsu-Sheng Hsieh
Summary: This study examines the feasibility of road pricing policy and analyzes the relationships between administration participation, government trust, fairness, freedom infringement, public opinion, and policy acceptability. The results show that public participation has a positive impact on policy acceptability, while freedom infringement reduces it. Additionally, persuasive communication can improve policy acceptability for specific groups.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Shu Yang, Jiuchang Wei, Peng Cheng
Summary: This study found that penalty policy leads to negative spillover effects, while voluntary participation policy results in positive spillover effects, significantly impacting the acceptance of price increase policy. However, there were no spillover effects observed for subsidy policy acceptance. The study highlights the importance of carefully considering the potential negative effects of penalty policies and utilizing voluntary participation policies more effectively in future policy design.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Xiuqi Li, Aoyi Yang, Han Yan
Summary: This research analyzed 3,618 provincial policies in China and found that local elderly care policies have evolved through three phases. The priorities in each phase are solving legacy issues, increasing private sector participation, and improving elderly well-being. Mature regions use more environmental policy instruments, including financial services, regulatory systems, and strategic guidance, to effectively implement elderly care policies. In contrast, immature regions should focus on using core instruments alongside basic ones to serve local development and improve elderly well-being.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Business
Lei Yin, Di Wang, Yanyan Li
Summary: Targeted tax policies can promote corporate restructuring. The policies developed in China in 2014 have shown a compound effect. To further improve tax support for corporate restructuring, strategies such as lowering thresholds, improving policy designs, enhancing tax services, and strengthening supervision on high-risk restructuring issues should be considered.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jeanine Ammann, Andreia Arbenz, Gabriele Mack, Thomas Nemecek, Nadja El Benni
Summary: The current food system is unsustainable and contributes to the climate crisis. Consumers face challenges in making sustainable food decisions, making policy action necessary. A literature review of 160 studies was conducted to assess the effectiveness of consumer-targeted policy instruments, revealing that less intrusive instruments are more popular but more intrusive instruments are more effective. Additionally, consumers rely on information-based instruments and sociodemographic characteristics play a role in sustainable food choices.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Marco Rogna, Carla J. Vogt
Summary: Integrated assessment models are often criticized for their underlying assumptions. This paper introduces Fehr and Schmidt (F&S) utility functions to fill this gap, and shows that under optimal cooperation, the level of temperature rise is lower when F&S preferences are assumed.
Article
Environmental Studies
Christian Bretter, Felix Schulz
Summary: Public support is crucial for implementing and maintaining decarbonization policies. Examining public support for climate policies, this study finds that individuals in the UK prefer less effective policy instruments, such as information-based and voluntary policies. Beliefs in the free market, environmental worldviews, political party support, age, and regional variations are factors correlated with policy support. Place-based initiatives and improving the perception of market-based and command-and-control policies are proposed to increase support. The majority of the UK public supports all climate policy instruments regardless of their stringency, but more stringent policies received less public support compared to lenient ones.
Article
Economics
Xun Li, Yu Qiu
Summary: This study examines the impacts of siblings on social preferences, risk attitudes, and time preferences, finding that siblings mainly influence people's social preferences and cooperative behaviors. The results suggest that increased sibling interactions and decreased parental expectations are potential mechanisms through which siblings enhance prosocial behavior. The findings highlight a positive externality of sibling relationships, providing implications for fertility policies like China's recent Three-Child Policy.
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Miroslav Hajek, Jarmila Zimmermannova, Karel Helman
Summary: The study uses multiple panel regression analysis to examine how individual policy instruments contribute to reducing transport carbon emissions in groups of EU countries. Different tax revenues have varying impacts on emissions across countries and the rise in aviation emissions allowances prices is found to contribute to emission reduction, with a typical increase in EUAA price by 1 Euro corresponding to a per capita decrease in GHG emissions by 7.9 kg of CO2. Further research is suggested to help select the most effective economic instruments and their mix at the EU level.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Economics
Leo Cremer, Christine Weber
Summary: This study introduces the concept of net-benefit curves to quantify the decision-making process of landlords for energy retrofits and how climate policy instruments affect this decision. The empirical analysis on a typical residential building reveals that slight changes in policy parameters can lead to a significant transition from no retrofitting to substantial retrofitting.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stefano Carattini, Steffen Kallbekken, Anton Orlov
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anton Orlov, Steffen Kallbekken
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2019)
Article
Environmental Studies
William Brazil, Steffen Kallbekken, Hakon Saelen, James Carroll
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
Article
Economics
Ibon Galarraga, Steffen Kallbekken, Alessandro Silvestri
Article
Environmental Sciences
Todd L. Cherry, Steffen Kallbekken, Stephan Kroll, David M. McEvoy
Summary: The study found that providing information about solar geoengineering to respondents is more likely to increase their support for a proposed national carbon tax, rather than crowding out efforts to reduce emissions. People with egalitarian and communitarian worldviews are more responsive to this information compared to those with hierarchical and individualist worldviews.
Article
Environmental Studies
Steffen Kallbekken, Hakon Saelen
Summary: Research found that support is influenced by factors such as expected effectiveness, perceived threat, duration of the measures, knowledge, and trust, while constrained by the expected negative consequences for self and the poor. Despite support for restrictive measures being largely the same across different scenarios, the level of support differs because COVID-19 is seen as a more immediate threat, with measures expected to be shorter-lasting and more effective.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Areti Kontogianni, Dimitris Damigos, Michail Skourtos, Christos Tourkolias, Eleanor Denny, Ibon Galarraga, Steffen Kallbekken, Edin Lakic
Summary: This paper uses empirical data from five EU countries to refine and further develop a standard consumer decision model for energy investment. The study shows that the models are transferable in specific cases, with attitudinal factors and demographic characteristics playing a significant role. However, caution should be exercised when extrapolating these findings to specific populations in terms of space and target from a policy perspective.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Todd L. Cherry, Steffen Kallbekken, Hakon Saelen, Stine Aakre
Summary: Starting with easier cooperation does not lead to higher levels of trust, and it results in lower levels of cooperation when cooperation becomes more difficult in stage 2. The pledge-and-review approach does not lead to significantly higher levels of cooperation, but it helps mitigate the negative effect of starting with easy cooperation, acting as a safeguard against failed strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ambika Markanday, Steffen Kallbekken, Ibon Galarraga
Summary: This study explores how individuals, in the role of policymakers, determine acceptable levels of risk through different framings of flood risk information and experiencing economic losses. The results indicate that combining photos of climate impacts with numerical risk information can help the public engage more deeply with climate issues and encourage them to take precautionary measures to reduce future losses.
MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Steffen Kallbekken, David G. Victor
Summary: Efficiency and clean fuels alone are insufficient, governments and industry need to explore alternative approaches to significantly reduce the climate impact of aviation.
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Steffen Kallbekken
Summary: The transition to net-zero emissions is likely to face opposition, which can result in political polarization and social unrest. To ensure a successful and widely accepted transition, research on public support needs to rapidly advance in multiple dimensions.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Jan Fuglestvedt, Marianne T. Lund, Steffen Kallbekken, Bjorn Hallvard Samset, David S. S. Lee
Summary: The effects of aviation on climate present unique challenges for policy. A significant portion (65%) of CO2 emissions is international and not explicitly addressed in the Paris Agreement. The interpretation of Article 4.1 regarding the balance of anthropogenic emissions and greenhouse gas removals is ambiguous when considering the non-CO2 effects of aviation. This article discusses the role of aviation in the Paris Agreement and explores the complexities of defining and achieving a greenhouse gas balance for the sector.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hege Westskog, Tom Erik Julsrud, Steffen Kallbekken, Koen Frenken, Juliet Schor, Karina Standal
Summary: Institutional restructuring and redistributive exchange systems can help upscale community sharing initiatives and contribute to change. Sharing practices may strengthen ties and trust in an enterprise or local community. Community-sharing systems that build on existing values in line with sustainability transformation may be in the best position to contribute to deeper levers of change.
SUSTAINABILITY-SCIENCE PRACTICE AND POLICY
(2021)
Article
Economics
Nicholas Janusch, Stephan Kroll, Christopher Goemans, Todd L. Cherry, Steffen Kallbekken
Summary: The study found that after an experiential learning phase, congestion pricing policies are effective in reducing traffic congestion, and most subjects tend to vote in their monetary self-interest after experiencing the policy. Furthermore, the study shows that certain worldviews and beliefs can predict whether an individual finds a toll policy acceptable or not.
EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Economics
Steffen Kallbekken, Stine Aakre
REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY
(2018)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Eva Boon, Jurian Vincent Meijering, Robbert Biesbroek, Fulco Ludwig
Summary: This article introduces a global Delphi study, which presents a widely supported definition for successful climate services. The definition emphasizes the importance of user satisfaction and highlights the need for climate service developers to consider climate change uncertainties, build trust and capacity with users, and tailor interactions based on user needs.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhiqi Zhang, Xiangyu Jia, Zeren Gongbu, Dingling He, Wenjun Li
Summary: This study conducted research in two villages on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China and found that the village with interactive and supportive government involvement achieved better outcomes compared to the village with forceful government intervention. This highlights the importance of congruence between government actions and community demands in developing self-governance institutions for natural resource management.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yolanda L. Waters, Kerrie A. Wilson, Angela J. Dean
Summary: This study found that climate messages centered around the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are more effective in strengthening intentions to adopt energy reduction behaviors. However, they are limited in motivating more impactful civic and social behaviors, including those seeking to influence climate policy support. Messages emphasizing collective efficacy can enhance message effect and influence the uptake of a broader range of behaviors. Emotions related to distress played a significant role in this effect. This research offers an alternative for expanding beyond traditional climate communication strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Daniel A. Potts, Emma J. S. Ferranti, Joshua D. Vande Hey
Summary: This study investigates the barriers to integrating satellite data into air quality management and proposes the creation of a network of experts to facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange between scientific research and air quality management.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Amber W. Datta, Carina Wyborn, Brian C. Chaffin, Michele L. Barnes
Summary: Extreme climate events are changing social-ecological systems and challenging environmental governance paradigms. This study explores governance actors' perspectives on the future of reef management after a crisis and finds that multiple and conflicting visions are shaping the trajectory of coral reef governance.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ranjan Datta, Prarthona Datta
Summary: This paper discusses the importance of learning climate change solutions from the activities of cross-cultural children, and introduces reflective learning, Indigenous Elders land-based teaching, music and arts learning, and positive interactions with cross-cultural children in a cross-cultural community garden.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Julie Lydia Stounberg, Karen Timmerman, Karsten Dahl, Maurizio Pinna, Jon C. Svendsen
Summary: To combat biodiversity loss, the European Union established the Natura 2000 network. However, some sites are still not mapped, and habitats remain undefined. This study compared the definitions of blue mussel reefs in different EU member states and identified significant variations in parameters and limits used for reef identification. The study also highlighted the need for compatible and justified habitat definitions to ensure a consistent level of protection.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shilpi Kundu, Edward A. Morgan, James C. R. Smart
Summary: Climate change impacts in low lying coastal areas, like Bangladesh, are negatively affecting food and livelihood security, necessitating adaptation measures to build resilience. However, the effective implementation of these measures is hindered by a lack of local-level knowledge.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Theodore Tallent, Aiora Zabala
Summary: This study explores how pluralism and social equity are incorporated into the governance of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the field of conservation. Using a conceptual framework of social equity, the researchers analyze five exemplary cases to understand how practitioners assimilate these principles into their practices and governance processes. The findings highlight a strong commitment to participation and involvement of local communities, along with practices that aim to foster actor participation, build local capacity, and strengthen ownership. The study emphasizes the importance of considering diverse voices, perspectives, and forms of knowledge in conservation governance.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Natalie Sampson, Carmel Price, Melanie Sampson, Mary Bradshaw, Bianca Freeman
Summary: The Title V program of the Clean Air Act provides opportunities for public participation in permit-related decisionmaking, but there is a lack of substantive changes prioritizing environmental justice in overburdened communities. Increasing the use of plain language can improve public participation by enhancing access, transparency, and accountability. Analysis of public notices revealed poor writing quality and a lack of attention to writing strategies for improved understanding and addressing environmental health and justice. Suggestions for improving public notices are provided, emphasizing the need for plain language and environmental health literacy.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Karabi Bezboruah, Amruta Sakalker, Michelle Hummel, Oswald Jenewein, Kathryn Masten, Yonghe Liu
Summary: This study examines the role of a rural, community-based nonprofit organization in addressing coastal flooding. Through an analysis of the Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association (IOBCWA) in Texas, the study finds that the organization has improved the community's adaptive capacity through activities such as community organizing, advocacy, data collection, resident capacity building, and regional communication networks. However, more policies, partnerships, and inclusion of socially vulnerable groups are needed.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Heli Saarikoski, Suvi Vikstrom, Lasse Peltonen
Summary: This paper examines the cormorant conflict in Finland, highlighting the frame conflict resulting from different scales of analysis. The study finds that knowledge co-production processes have the potential to address environmental conflicts and generate practical and contextually appropriate knowledge. Key factors include participants' control over information and third-party facilitation of dialogue.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Naomi Terry, Azucena Castro, Bwalya Chibwe, Geci Karuri-Sebina, Codruta Savu, Laura Pereira
Summary: The practice of envisioning the future has deep roots in African traditions, but is not widely used in conventional futuring methodologies. To achieve a decolonial approach to futuring, it is important to consider diverse pasts and storytelling forms. Stories can serve as mechanisms of power, healing, and diversification, leading to more just and ecologically sustainable futures.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Priya Chetri, Upasna Sharma, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
Summary: Previous studies have overlooked the role of information in farmers' capacity to adapt to weather and climate variability. This paper examines the relationship between farmers' access to weather information and the uptake of farm-level adaptation strategies, and highlights the potential of information in improving farmers' adaptive capacity. The paper also emphasizes the moderating effect of farmers' social ecosystem on this relationship.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Baker Matovu, Floor Brouwer, Raimund Bleischwitz, Firas Aljanabi, Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz
Summary: This paper proposes a novel framework for sustainable sand mining based on Ecosystem Service Assessment. It analyzes the case of Kerala, India to demonstrate the impacts of sand mining on local ecosystems and livelihoods. The article also highlights seven key steps that can guide sustainable sand mining and promote integrated governance systems.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2024)
