Published today in Global Environmental Change and available open access here Can practice theory make a difference to policy? In this article, we contribute to a vexed debate on that question. We draw on our learning from a series of projects working in collaboration with key policy partners to bring evidence from practice research to inform policy onContinue reading “Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with social practice theories: The Change Points approach”
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Change Points presentation to inaugural meeting of the Behavioural Science and the Natural Environment group
Sam Outhwaite and Matt Watson represented the Change Points team, which was invited to present the approach to the inaugural meeting of the Behavioural Science and the Natural Environment group.
The Change Points Toolkit is online
The Change Points Toolkit in online now. It supports users in developing interventions that unlock unsustainable practices so that alternative, less intensive patterns of consumption can emerge. It is not like any existing behaviour change toolkit. Rather than focusing on the individual – ‘the customer’, ‘the user’, ‘the consumer’ – this toolkit aids users toContinue reading “The Change Points Toolkit is online”
The water–energy–food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability
Online open access at: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12257 A new output from the nexus project work, lead authored by Mike Foden with the rest of the project team, published in The Geographical Journal. This paper contributes to the nascent transdisciplinary research agenda of translating home practices research into wider conceptualisations of “intervention”, with a specific orientation towards academic and non-academic stakeholders who areContinue reading “The water–energy–food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability”
New report: Energy use, flexibility and domestic food practices: implications for policy and intervention.
Energy and kitchen practices report DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16398.46405 This report introduces a new approach to understanding the role of everyday household practices in domestic resource consumption and addressing the policy challenges this presents. To demonstrate this ‘change points’ approach we focus on one such topic: tackling energy use in the provision of food at home. ProvidingContinue reading “New report: Energy use, flexibility and domestic food practices: implications for policy and intervention.”
New report: Food waste, food safety and kitchen practices: implications for policy and intervention
Food waste and safety report – nexus at home doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10747.62243 This report, produced in consultation with the Food Standards Agency, is one of four reports introducing a new approach to understanding the role of everyday household practices in domestic resource consumption and addressing the policy challenges this presents. To demonstrate this ‘change points’ approachContinue reading “New report: Food waste, food safety and kitchen practices: implications for policy and intervention”
New Report: Food waste and kitchen practices: implications for policy and intervention
Food waste report – nexus at home doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23212.56960 This report, developed for and in consultation with Defra, is one of four reports introducing a new approach to understanding the role of everyday household practices in domestic resource consumption and addressing the policy challenges this presents. To demonstrate this ‘change points’ approach this report focuses onContinue reading “New Report: Food waste and kitchen practices: implications for policy and intervention”
New Report: Fats, oils, grease and kitchen practices implications for policy and intervention
FOG report and kitchen practices – nexus at home doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13146.24005 This report, developed for and in consultation with Waterwise, is one of four reports introducing a new approach to understanding the role of everyday household practices in domestic resource consumption and addressing the policy challenges this presents. To demonstrate this ‘change points’ approach this reportContinue reading “New Report: Fats, oils, grease and kitchen practices implications for policy and intervention”
Talking FOGs with Pennine Water Group
Early in the project we worked with our partner organisations to identify four specific issues, through which we can explore the new light that nexus thinking, together with a focus on everyday kitchen practices, can shed on ongoing policy challenges. One such issue, identified in collaboration with Waterwise, is the widespread disposal of fats, oilsContinue reading “Talking FOGs with Pennine Water Group”
Sustainability in turbulent times, Westminster conference
, Just over the Thames from Parliament, the project was featured at Sustainability in Turbulent Times. This major event, attended by around 350 and featuring a range of high profile speakers, was the culmination of the work of the ESRC funded Nexus Network. In a wide ranging programme, we covered issues around the challenges and opportunitiesContinue reading “Sustainability in turbulent times, Westminster conference”
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