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dc.contributor.authorVita, Gibran
dc.contributor.authorIvanova, Diana
dc.contributor.authorDumitru, Adina
dc.contributor.authorGarcía-Mira, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorCarrus, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.authorStadler, Konstantin
dc.contributor.authorKrause, Karen
dc.contributor.authorWood, Richard
dc.contributor.authorHertwich, Edgar G.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T10:26:08Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T10:26:08Z
dc.date.created2019-11-20T16:05:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2214-6296
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2630041
dc.description.abstractScientists and policymakers recognize the need to address consumption and lifestyles in order to reconcile environmental and development agendas. Sustainability-oriented grassroots initiatives emerge bottom-up to create opportunities for sustainable lifestyles; yet no prior assessment has ascertained the efficacy of their members to reduce carbon footprints (CF) and enhance well-being. We compare the CF of non-members and members of grassroots initiatives in the domains of food, clothing, housing and transport. We further compare the groups by testing the influence of socio-economic variables that are typically associated with both footprint and well-being. Here we show that grassroots initiative members have 16% lower total carbon footprint, and 43% and 86% lower carbon footprints for food and clothing respectively, compared to their “non-member” regional socio-demographic counterparts. We find a higher adoption of some energy-saving behaviors for initiative members such as greater active travel distance and lower indoor temperatures in the winter, yet no significant differences in the CF of housing and transport. Interestingly, increases in income are not associated with increases in the total CF of members, while the influence of income is confirmed for the CF of the total sample. Instead, factors such as age, household size, and gender better explain the variation in the domain-specific CFs of initiative members. Finally, members show higher life satisfaction compared to non-members and are 11–13% more likely to evaluate their life positively. Our results suggest that initiative members uncover lifestyle features that not only enable lower emissions, but also reconcile emissions with income and well-being.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherElseviernb_NO
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleHappier with less? Members of European environmental grassroots initiatives reconcile lower carbon footprints with higher life satisfaction and income increasesnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.volume60nb_NO
dc.source.journalEnergy Research & Social Sciencenb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.erss.2019.101329
dc.identifier.cristin1750073
dc.description.localcode© 2019. This is the authors’ accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. Locked until 6.11.2021 due to copyright restrictions. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/nb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,64,25,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for energi- og prosessteknikk
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