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Postdoctoral Researcher at Lund University Research in Behavioral Ecological Economics, Sufficiency and Post-Growth Currently working on attractive future visions considering planetary boundaries and citizens views.
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❓Can people be encouraged to engage in more sufficiency behavior (i.e. living well on less consumption) by making them aware of the potential benefits for themselves, society, or nature? 📝 Our new study explores how different messages about sufficiency benefits impact actual sufficiency behavior.

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💡For behavioral scientists💡 We have developed and validated a task called "Tree Task" to study pro-environmental behavior in the lab or online in the form of tree planting. The validation study has now been published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology:

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Alice Weidel nennt Universitäten "queer-woke Kaderschmieden" und sagt: "Wir schließen alle Gender Studies und schmeißen alle diese Professoren raus". Die Naturwissenschafts-Community muss sich hier klar auf die Seite der Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaft stellen. Das ist ein Angriff auf alle. (Thread)

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To the peace and conflict experts out here: How can countries protect themselves effectively geopolitically from aggressors without focusing on GDP growth as a means of financing military armament?

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‘Developing countries in particular can avoid wasting billions on car infrastructure and go straight to cycling. This isn’t just for rich cities – it’s something every city on the planet can do if they want to become more efficient.’

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💫 I love the direction new economy funding is heading! 💫 In this article I share 10 ways funders can even better support new economy organizations: medium.com/postgrowth/1... #postgrowth

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Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

submitted 55 days ago • 29 comments

🎉 Embrace sufficiency 🎉 Sufficiency has great untapped potential to accelerate the energy transition. In our new paper, we review key barriers, sketch how various actors can help overcome them, & draw broad lessons from transition studies for systemic change: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Climate scientists be like..

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The end of the year is a time to pause, reflect, and dream. Here's what I hope for in the coming year:

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🌍 Even small differences in how we communicate about climate change can shape people’s behavior. In a study we showed that even the tense used matters for climate action. 🧵

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What being a pedestrian feels like when you’ve surrendered too much space to cars, leaving too little for everyone and everything else. Powerful llustration by Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration.

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"Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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