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of the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles' Members
OECD Environmental pressures from households are significant, and their impacts are likely to intensify over the coming years. A household survey (PDF - 130 KB) on environmental behaviour, an OECD project, is ongoing to better understand household environmental behaviour in five areas:
The household survey has been implemented covering the five areas and 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Experts from the selected participating countries are examining differences in environmental behaviour across types households and their response to environmental policy measures (e.g. waste charges, waste collection and recycling services, energy price, energy efficiency labelling, fuel taxes, technical standards, organic food labelling). Policy recommendations will be formulate for the design of efficient and effective environmental policies targeted at households, and the results will be presented at a conference in 2009. Contact:
SAG has organized two Indian Roundtables on SCP: in Mumbai (September 2006) and New Delhi (December 2007). Current SCP proposals include: 1) a training programme for Indian and South Asian officials on National SCP Action Plans; 2) an engagement meeting between the Marrakech Task Forces and India/South Asia; and 3) hopefully a 3rd India SCP Roundtable. Contact:
Creative Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles (CCSL) project is part of the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles and aims at investigating the possible links between grass roots innovations and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. It discusses the potentialities of collaborative everyday life creativity (the creative communities) in generating and diffusing new and more sustainable ways of living in the urban environments of emerging countries (with a focus on Brazil, India and China). CCSL has revealed clusters of creative communities' cases in different countries with very different economic social and cultural backgrounds that altogether represent original ways of dealing with everyday problems, i.e. anticipations of sustainable lifestyles. CCSL is currently evolving in different ways. The initial CCSL project (led in India, China and Brazil) has triggered follow-up initiatives through which partner institutions seek to further understand the notion of creative communities and their potential role in leapfrogging towards new and more sustainable lifestyles. CCSL in Africa has been currently launched. Contact:
The Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE) is a novel collaboration located entirely within the University of Surrey (UK), involving four internationally acclaimed departments: the Centre for Environmental Strategy, the Surrey Energy Economics Centre, the Environmental Psychology Research Group and the Department of Sociology. Sponsored by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of the Research Councils' Energy Programme, RESOLVE aims to unravel the complex links between lifestyles, values and the environment. In particular, the group will provide robust, evidence-based advice to policy-makers in the UK and elsewhere who are seeking to understand and to influence the behaviours and practices of 'energy consumers'. RESOLVE's inter-disciplinary research programme is arranged around six thematic research strands: Carbon Footprinting; Psychology of Energy Behaviours; Sociology of Lifestyles; Household change over time; Lifestyle Scenarios, and Energy/Carbon Governance. Contacts: |
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