Innovative Behavioral Approaches to Analyze the Incentives of Environmental Instruments

Beckenbach, Frank

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“…In addition, our (daily) decisions are affected to a large extent also by the amount of available time, capacity for deliberate thinking, and decision-making contexts (e.g. Kahneman 2003Kahneman , 2013Beckenbach 2015).…”

Section: Pro-environmental Behaviour Change Interventions At the Workplace-an Overview Of Existing Interventions And Their Impactsmentioning

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Habitually green: integrating the concept of habit into the design of pro-environmental interventions at the workplace

Michalek

Thronicker

Yildiz

et al. 2019

NachhaltigkeitsManagementForum

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In the course of sustainability strategies many enterprises and organisations have implemented measures to promote pro-environmental behaviours at work, including sustainable resource use. This task, however, often represents a challenge because many daily behaviours of the employees are based on habits and routines that are very difficult to change. This article discusses pro-environmental behavioural interventions in the corporate environment with a particular emphasis placed on habit formation. In reference to common behaviour change interventions and habit formation theory, we discuss how to enhance the design of behaviour change programs and support their implementation at the workplace in order to facilitate the process of habit-formation. The identified habit-enabling adjustments can be used to achieve a permanent reduction in the negative environmental impact of companies and thus become an integral part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental Management System (EMS) strategies. Gewohnheitsmäßig grün: Integration des Konzepts der Gewohnheit in die Gestaltung umweltorientierter Maßnahmen am ArbeitsplatzZusammenfassung Im Zuge umfassender Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien beinhalten Maßnahmenpakete von Unternehmen oftmals Schritte, um den schonenden Umgang mit Ressourcen im betrieblichen Alltag der Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen zu fördern. Diese Zielsetzung stellt sich jedoch oftmals als Herausforderung dar, da viele Verhaltensweisen auf gefestigten Gewohnheiten basieren, die nur schwer zu ändern sind. Dieser Beitrag fokussiert das Thema der Gewohnheitsbildung bei betrieblichen Interventionen zur Förderung von umweltfreundlicherem Verhalten am Arbeitsplatz. Ausgehend von gängigen betrieblichen Maßnahmen und der Theorie zur Gewohnheitsbildung wird erörtert, wie betriebliche Maßnahmen so gestaltet und umgesetzt werden können, dass das gewünschte Verhalten sich möglichst zu einer Gewohnheit ausbildet. Die hier identifizierten Maßnahmenkonzepte können somit einen Beitrag leisten, die negativen Umweltwirkungen unternehmerischen Handelns nachhaltig zu reduzieren und als Bestandteil in Corporate Social Responsibility-und Umweltmanagementsystem-Strategien einfließen.

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Section: Pro-environmental Behaviour Change Interventions At the Workplace-an Overview Of Existing Interventions And Their Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Habitually green: integrating the concept of habit into the design of pro-environmental interventions at the workplace

Michalek

Thronicker

Yildiz

et al. 2019

NachhaltigkeitsManagementForum

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“…Effective environmental policies must be based on a coherent conception of human nature that speaks to the relationship between how people approach new information, how information relates to motivation, and how information and motivation relate to behavior change [107]. Several field experiments testing the effects of green nudges have been conducted over the last years for a variety of ecological purposes, including energy efficiency and pollution prevention [108]. The "green nudge community" is a new and spirited voice in whether behavioral sciences can contribute to better environmental policy [109].…”

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Consumer Behavior and Sustainable Development in China: The Role of Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Policymaking

Simões

2016

Sustainability

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China's astonishing economic development over the last decades has produced a momentous impact on the country's environmental equilibrium. Chinese officials are now confronted with the need to tackle environmental problems without disrupting the country's development. The Chinese government seems keen on striking a balance between these two apparently contradictory goals by promoting the concept of "ecological civilization", a notion that emphasizes the importance of individual behavior. Over the last few years, environmental policymaking worldwide has been giving a lower profile to the role of the State and placing increasing responsibility for many environmental issues on citizens/consumers. Individuals are increasingly perceived as agents for environmental change and their behaviors are subject to tighter scrutiny. Due to the emergence of a consumer society in China, individual behaviors are increasingly a source of environmental problems and a key component of efficient and long-lasting solutions. Accordingly, Chinese policymakers should recognize the environmental significance of individual behaviors and look beyond traditional policy tools. This article argues that Behavioral Sciences can offer important lessons and help in designing new strategies that can speak directly to the Chinese people as a source of environmental harm, thus reducing their impact on the environment.

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Green Nudges: Do They Work? Are They Ethical?

Schubert

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Real-world consumers, though, are motivated by more than incentives and information (Michalek et al. 2015). These are innovative policy tools that are designed with a specific focus on behavioral factors 1 Most economist readers can be assumed to be familiar with the key insights of Behavioral Economics; those interested in the details may be referred to the excellent surveys by Camerer and Loewenstein (2004) and Della Vigna (2009). Van den Bergh et al. (2000) give an outline of behavioral economics insights with a focus on their relevance for environmental economics prior to Nudge. The contributions by Norton et al. (1998) and Söderbaum (1994) are particularly interesting as precursors of the nudge agenda, as they argue that environmental policies should try to exploit endogenous preference change. 2 An important exception to that rule was Jack Knetsch, see, e.g. Knetsch and Sinden (1984), Knetsch (1989 and structured. To nudge someone is to deliberately intervene in a given CA. Nudges are widely regarded as potential complements to more traditional incentive-based regulation; the hope is that adding them to the policy mix may be both more effective and more popular among the general public than relying on traditional regulatory tools alone (Thaler and Sunstein 2008: ch. 12). 6 As Cass Sunstein (2014: 13) puts it, the general aim is to develop "sensible, low-cost policies with close reference to how human beings actually think and behave." There is an important caveat, though: Due to their unclear welfare foundations and the potentially paternalistic and manipulative way in which these tools shape human behavior (viz., by addressing and exploiting cognitive biases), nudges raise complex ethical questions. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayThe exact definition of nudges is a matter of some controversy. What's typically offered as a back-of-the-envelope definition -"interventions that influence people's behavior without significantly changing their monetary incentives or coercing them" -is unhelpful, as it also lets the mere provision of information count as a nudge. We rather suggest to follow Hansen (2016) by supplementing this shorthand with the notion, originally advanced by Thaler and Sunstein (2008: 8) To illustrate, the subsidy and tax schemes discussed by Allcott and Taubinsky (2015) in the context of energy efficiency policy qualify as BEP in our sense of the term. 5 See in particular (ibid.: ch. 12) on green nudging, and Sunstein (201...

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Innovative Behavioral Approaches to Analyze the Incentives of Environmental Instruments

Cited by 5 publications

References 93 publications

Habitually green: integrating the concept of habit into the design of pro-environmental interventions at the workplace

Habitually green: integrating the concept of habit into the design of pro-environmental interventions at the workplace

Consumer Behavior and Sustainable Development in China: The Role of Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Policymaking

Green Nudges: Do They Work? Are They Ethical?

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