Behavior Change

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Behavioral Insights for Change will draw on social-behavioral science to design and test interventions that nudge and boost people toward sustainable attitudes, beliefs, and behavior that will meet the climate challenge. These include changes to civic action and engagement that supports substantive policy as well as changes to individual consumption to achieve drawdown of greenhouse gas emissions.  

Recent activities

  • Leaf Van Boven was a panelist at the The Institute for Science and Policy: The Future of Climate Policy (December 2024)

  • Amanda Carrico and Leaf Van Boven participated in a conference on : From Individual to Collective Action, Stanford University, Doer School of Sustainability (December 2024)

  • Amanda Carrico and Leaf Van Boven participated in a conference on , Vanderbilt University (October 2024)

  • Van Boven participated in a meeting on , The Ohio State University (April 2023)

  • Van Boven and Boykofff were panelists at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Conference on World Affairs (April 2023)

  • (with CIRES, Boykoff, Van Boven, upcoming, Oct 2022) 

  • (CU/DU, Carrico & Van Boven, December 2021)

  • (UCSB, Van Boven, October 2021)

  • (2021, Van Boven)
  • Research Seed Grants
  • Publications and Presentations