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Using Behavioural Insights to Promote Food Waste Recycling in Urban Households—Evidence From a Longitudinal Field Experiment
Linder, N., T. Lindahl, S. Borgström. 2018. Using Behavioural Insights to Promote Food Waste Recycling in Urban Households—Evidence From a Longitudinal Field Experiment. Front. Psychol 9:352.
Promoting pro-environmental behaviour amongst urban dwellers is one of today’s greatest sustainability challenges. The aim of this study is to test whether an information intervention, designed based on theories from environmental psychology and behavioural economics, can be effective in promoting recycling of food waste in an urban area. To this end we developed and evaluated an information leaflet, mainly guided by insights from nudging and...
Allowing variance may enlarge the safe operating space for exploited ecosystems
Carpenter, S.R., W. A. Brock, C. Folke, E. H. van Nes, and M. Scheffer. 2015. Allowing variance may enlarge the safe operating space for exploited ecosystems. PNAS 112:14384-14389.
Variable flows of food, water, or other ecosystem services complicate planning. Management strategies that decrease variability and increase predictabilitymay therefore be preferred. However, actions to decrease variance over short timescales (2–4 y), when applied continuously,may lead to long-termecosystem changes with adverse consequences. We investigated the effects of managing short-term variance in three well-understood models of ecosystem services: lake eutrophication, harvest of a wild population, and...
Genuine saving under stochastic growth
Li, C.-Z., and K.G. Löfgren. 2012. Genuine saving under stochastic growth. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 5:167–174.
The concept of genuine saving has in recent years become widely accepted as a dynamic welfare indicator, which first appeared inWeitzman (Q. J. Econ. 99:1–13, 1976) and then formalized by Pearce and Atkinson (Ecol. Econ. 8:103–108, 1993). This paper attempts to generalize this concept in a stochastic setting using an extended version of the standard Ramsey growth model (Merton in Rev. Econ. Stud. 42:375–379, 1975)....
The Dynamics of Ecosystems, Biodiversity Management and Social Institutions at High Northern Latitudes
Elmqvist, T., F. Berkes, C. Folke, P. Angelstam, A.-S. Crepin, and J. Niemelä. 2004. The Dynamics of Ecosystems, Biodiversity Management and Social Institutions at High Northern Latitudes. Ambio 33:350-355.
Ecosystems at high latitudes are highly dynamic, influenced by a multitude of large-scale disturbances. Due to global change processes these systems may be expected to be particularly vulnerable, affecting the sustained production of renewable wood resources and abundance of plants and animals on which local cultures depend. In this paper, we assess the implications of new understandings of high northern latitude ecosystems and what must...
