Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity's most existential crisis

EK Papies, KS Nielsen, VA Soares - Health Psychology Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and
wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food …

The key role of sufficiency for low demand-based carbon neutrality and energy security across Europe

F Wiese, N Taillard, E Balembois, B Best… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A detailed assessment of a low energy demand, 1.5∘ C compatible pathway is provided for
Europe from a bottom-up, country scale modelling perspective. The level of detail enables a …

[HTML][HTML] Energy sufficiency in buildings and cities: current research, future directions

M Sahakian, T Fawcett, S Darby - Buildings & Cities, 2024 - journal-buildingscities.org
This special issue is dedicated to the topic of energy sufficiency, where the guiding question
is how decent living standards for all can be ensured without exceeding planetary …

[HTML][HTML] Planning beyond growth: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits

C Durand, E Hofferberth, M Schmelzer - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Degrowth and post-growth economics has emerged as a particularly fruitful approach in the
debates about the reorientation of economies in the Global North towards environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Embracing sufficiency to accelerate the energy transition

F Dablander, C Hickey, M Sandberg… - Energy Research & …, 2025 - Elsevier
In a rapidly warming world, the transition to renewable energy faces challenges on many
fronts. Sufficiency measures, which focus on reducing overall energy demand, hold great …

[HTML][HTML] Can app-based communities support energy sufficiency in households? Evidence from a one-year quasi-experiment in Switzerland

F Cellina, T Gerosa, P Granato, E Lobsiger-Kägi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
App-based interventions are increasingly used to foster energy-sufficient household
routines. Previous studies rarely measure whether the effect persists in the long-term, and …

[图书][B] Der neue sozial-ökologische Klassenkonflikt: Mentalitäts-und Interessengegensätze im Streit um Transformation

D Eversberg, M Fritz, L von Faber, M Schmelzer - 2024 - library.oapen.org
Wie lässt sich angesichts der krisenhaften sozialen, politischen und ökologischen
Herausforderungen der Gegenwart die gesellschaftliche Konfliktlage verstehen, aus der der …

[HTML][HTML] What do you mean'Climate Change'? An analysis of climate change framings in three climate assemblies

C Zeitfogel, T Daw, D Collste - Environmental Science & Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
How climate change is framed within CAs is critical for both the democratic legitimacy and
transformative potential of CAs. Narrow technical frames can exclude valid perspectives and …

When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place

R Bärnthaler - Ambio, 2024 - Springer
Today's ecological crises are entwined with inequality dynamics, yet prevailing techno-
economic approaches in climate research and policy fall short in addressing the ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Political embedding of climate assemblies. How effective strategies for policy impact depend on context

J Pfeffer, J Newig - Environmental Science & Policy, 2025 - Elsevier
Scholars and practitioners discuss how to increase the policy impact of climate assemblies
(CAs) noting that their proposals tend to be more ambitious than government policy. CAs …