Energy, the Environment and Behaviour Change: A survey of insights from behavioural economics

Michelle Baddeley

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: Evidence of climate change is largely undisputed but moderating the impacts not only of climate change but also of resource depletion is a complex, multi-faceted problem. Technical solutions will have a large role to play but engineering behaviour change within households and firms is essential to harnessing the potential for energy efficient consumption, production and investment. To inform debates about behavior change, this paper explores some insights from behavioural economics including analyses of bounded rationality, cognitive bias / heuristics, temporal discounting, social in uences, well-being and emotions.

Keywords: energy economics; environmental economics; environmental behavioural economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D03 Q5 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-ene, nep-env, nep-evo, nep-hme and nep-res
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