Buildings are key in supporting human activities and well-being by providing shelter and
other important services to their users. Buildings are, however, also responsible for major …

Ambitious climate mitigation policies face social and political resistance. One reason is that
existing policies insufficiently capture the diversity of relevant insights from the social …

Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction
potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

In recent years, global studies have attempted to understand the contribution that energy
demand reduction could make to climate mitigation efforts. Here we develop a bottom-up …

Public support for stringent climate policies is currently weak. We develop a model to study
the dynamics of public support for climate policies. It comprises three interconnected …

Scenarios from integrated assessment models play a central role in helping policymakers
envisage pathways to limit global warming to well below 2° C. We demonstrate that many …

With its update of the Bioeconomy Strategy and the Green Deal, the European Commission
committed itself to a transformation towards a sustainable and climate-neutral European …

There has so far been no shared understanding of validity in agent-based simulation. We
here conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the premises on which …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) has been widely used in numerous disciplines and practice
domains, subject to many eulogies and criticisms. This article presents key advances and …