People with high socioeconomic status disproportionally affect energy-driven greenhouse
gas emissions directly through their consumption and indirectly through their financial and …

In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein
published a book in which they advocated a novel approach to public policy based on the …

An influential line of thinking in behavioral science, to which the two authors have long
subscribed, is that many of society's most pressing problems can be addressed cheaply and …

A carbon tax is widely accepted as the most effective policy for curbing carbon emissions but
is controversial because it imposes costs on consumers. An alternative,'nudge,'approach …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

To effectively limit climate change, we need people to both behave pro-environmentally and
support environmental policy. However, there are conflicting results about whether people …

Indirect rebound effects on the consumer level occur when potential greenhouse gas
emission savings from the usage of more efficient technologies or more sufficient …

A growing stream of literature at the interface between economics and psychology is
currently investigating 'behavioral spillovers' in (and across) different domains, including …

Stricter regulation of food waste reduction is widely presumed to increase food prices, which
could render its implementation politically unfeasible. Here we empirically tested whether …

Policy challenges can typically be addressed both through systemic changes (eg, taxes and
mandates) and by encouraging individual behavior change. In this paper, we propose that …