Urban drought challenge to 2030 sustainable development goals

X Zhang, N Chen, H Sheng, C Ip, L Yang… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the first two decades of the 21st century, 79 global big cities have suffered extensively
from drought disaster. Meanwhile, climate change has magnified urban drought in both …

Intrinsic motivation, norms and environmental behaviour: the dynamics of overarching goals

L Steg, S Lindenberg, K Keizer - International Review of …, 2016 - research.rug.nl
The understanding, prediction, and encouragement of pro-environmental behaviour (ie,
behaviour that impacts the environment as little as possible) depend to a large extent on …

Consumers underestimate the emissions associated with food but are aided by labels

AR Camilleri, RP Larrick, S Hossain… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Food production is a major cause of energy use and GHG emissions, and therefore diet
change is an important behavioural strategy for reducing associated environmental impacts …

Overcoming salience bias: How real-time feedback fosters resource conservation

V Tiefenbeck, L Goette, K Degen, V Tasic… - Management …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
Inattention and imperfect information bias behavior toward the salient and immediately
visible. This distortion creates costs for individuals, the organizations in which they work, and …

Nonprice incentives and energy conservation

OI Asensio, MA Delmas - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
In the electricity sector, energy conservation through technological and behavioral change is
estimated to have a savings potential of 123 million metric tons of carbon per year, which …

“Green to be seen” and “brown to keep down”: Visibility moderates the effect of identity on pro-environmental behavior

C Brick, DK Sherman, HS Kim - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Social identities predict pro-environmental behavior, but the strength may depend on
whether the behavior is visible to others. When an environmentalist considers a pro …

Public perceptions of water shortages, conservation behaviors, and support for water reuse in the US

L Garcia-Cuerva, EZ Berglund, AR Binder - Resources, Conservation and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Reclaimed water programs treat wastewater to remove hazardous compounds, pathogens,
and organic matter and provide reclaimed water for non-potable applications. Reusing water …

Liquid harvesting and transport on multiscaled curvatures

C Li, C Yu, S Zhou, Z Dong… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Various creatures, such as spider silk and cacti, have harnessed their surface structures to
collect fog for survival. These surfaces typically stay dry and have a large contact hysteresis …

Perception of pro-environmental behavior

HB Truelove, AJ Gillis - Global Environmental Change, 2018 - Elsevier
Interventions to change individual human behavior have real promise in helping to reach
sustainability goals and emissions reductions targets. However, little is known about how …

Changes in water consumption linked to heavy news media coverage of extreme climatic events

KJ Quesnel, NK Ajami - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
Public awareness of water-and drought-related issues is an important yet relatively
unexplored component of water use behavior. To examine this relationship, we first …