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Society, Behaviour, and Climate Change Mitigation

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Editors:
  1. Eberhard Jochem

    1. Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
      Centre for Energy Policy and Economics, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. Jayant Sathaye

    1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, USA

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  3. Daniel Bouille

    1. Institute for Energy Economics Buenes, Aires, Argentina

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Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 8)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Incorporating Behavioural, Social, and Organizational Phenomena in the Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Options

    • John A. “Skip” Laitner, Stephen J. De Canio, Irene Peters
    Pages 1-64

  3. Cultural Discourses in the Global Climate Change Debate

    • Steven Ney, Michael Thompson
    Pages 65-92

  4. Consumption, Motivation and Choice Across Scale: Consequences for Selected Target Groups

    • Michael Thompson
    Pages 93-108

  5. The Legacy of Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: we know more about Individual Behaviour but next to Nothing about Demand

    • Harold Wilhite, Elizabeth Shove, Loren Lutzenhiser, Willett Kempton
    Pages 109-126

  6. Group Identity, Personal Ethics and Sustainable Development Suggesting New Directions For Social Marketing Research

    • Johanna Moisander
    Pages 127-156

  7. European Narratives about Human Nature, Society and the Good Life

    • Laurie Michaelis
    Pages 157-168

  8. Gender-Specific Patterns of Poverty and (Over-)Consumption in Developing and Developed Countries

    • Minu Hemmati
    Pages 169-189

  9. Climate Change and Relative Consumption

    • Richard B. Howarth
    Pages 191-206

  10. Social interactions and conditions for change in energy-related decision-making in SMCs — an empirical socio-economic analysis

    • Stephan Ramesohl
    Pages 207-226

  11. Motivation and decision criteria for energy efficiency in private households, companies and administrations in Russia

    • Inna Gritsevich
    Pages 227-237

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 233-238
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Envir- ment Programme (UNEP) to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. Since its inception the IPCC has produced a series of comprehensive - sessment Reports, Special Reports and Technical Papers on the state of the und- standing of causes of climate change, its potential impacts, and options for response strategies. In 1998, Working Group III (WG III) of the ongoing Third Assessment was charged by the IPCC Plenary to assess the scientific, technical, environmental, economic and social aspects of the mitigation of climate change and a series of cross-cutting issues such as equity, development and sustainability. Its mandate was changed from a predominantly disciplinary assessment of the economic and social dimensions of climate change in the Second Assessment Report to an interdisciplinary assessment of the options to control the emissions of greenhouse gases and/or enhance their sinks. One key issue of the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) on mitigation of climate change, which has undergone an extensive review by scientists and governments, is the role of present and future behaviour of individuals, households, private and p- lic companies, public authorities and other stakeholders.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Eberhard Jochem

  • Centre for Energy Policy and Economics, Zürich, Switzerland

    Eberhard Jochem

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, USA

    Jayant Sathaye

  • Institute for Energy Economics Buenes, Aires, Argentina

    Daniel Bouille

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