Stewart Barr
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582668 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stewart Barr |
| PRENOMES | Stewart |
| SOBRENOME | Barr |
| ASSINATURA | BARR S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7734-0519 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 372 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Transformative learning for sustainability
Purpose This case study aims to describe the pilot phase of the Future17 Sustainable Development Goals Challenge program. This program is led by the University of Exeter (UK) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and is designed to promote interdisciplinary teamwork, intercultural learning and digital competencies for addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach Future17 integrates interdisciplinary team…
Pining for Martens? Perspectives on a proposed Mustelid reintroduction in south-west England
Manoeuvring rural mobility policy for active and sustainable travel
Promoting "slow mobilities" and low carbon transport alternatives, through supporting active and sustainable travel (AST, including walking, cycling, wheeling, and public transport), is a priority for both public health and net zero strategies. Using a situational analysis drawing on local and national documents and stakeholder interviews, we explore the policy ecology of local authority ambitions and practices for creating and implementing AST p…
Do we really make a difference? A case study on the value of taught environmental sustainability postgraduate programmes within geography
Purpose The purpose of this research was to discover the impacts of taught environmental sustainability-focused geography postgraduate programmes on student attitudes, behaviours and practices in relation to environmental awareness within two research-intensive universities in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A case study involved online surveys to measure environmental attitudes, behaviours and practices at the start and end of four taught ge…
The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education
Field courses are widely regarded as integral to geography degree programmes, providing students with opportunities for experiential learning, often in unfamiliar international environments. Yet, this key area of pedagogy appears increasingly unsustainable and complex for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within the context of the urgent need for decarbonisation, increasing financial costs, and the institutional challenges of comprehensively e…
Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography
This essay examines the ways in which geographers have engaged with the concept and practice of sustainability and the lessons that we might learn from commentaries on the application of geographical ideas in the field of public policy. First, the essay highlights the need to question our academic relationship with a ‘slippery’ concept such as sustainability. Second, it examines the role of geographers in generating impact for sustainability caus…
Improving engagement in managing reintroduction conflicts
Social factors hold implications for the success or failure of wildlife reintroductions. Potential conflict issues may prevent projects from proceeding or succeeding. The manner in which wildlife managers engage with affected people in conflict scenarios may prevent or contribute toward conflict escalation, so an understanding of how to improve engagement is required. We conducted interviews with individuals who reported conflicts with beavers (C…
Alternative perspectives of the angling community on Eurasian beaver ( Castor fiber ) reintroduction in the River Otter Beaver Trial
Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction is taking place in England with potential benefits for flood alleviation and biodiversity; however there is also opposition. One area of controversy relates to fish and fishing. A previous meta-analysis of research into beaver-fish relationships found perceived benefits of beavers amongst fish and beaver “experts” included increased fish abundance and productivity, whilst perceived negatives included …
Shared space
Smart cities and behavioural change
Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
Enabling communities for a changing climate
Personal mobility and climate change
Changing personal mobility behavior in response to climate change represents a major challenge for social scientists and practitioners, given the embedded nature of mobility in daily life. Attempts to understand, govern, and promote more sustainable mobility have tended to focus on individual decision making and incremental shifts in behavior, such as reduced car use and increased walking, cycling, and public transport use. Indeed, these are prog…
Influencing transport behaviour
Current approaches for understanding and influencing transport behaviour often involve creating fixed, homogenous groups of similar surveyed individuals in order to explore specific behavioural profiles, an approach known as segmentation. Most commonly, segmentation is not based on a formal statistical model, but either a simple ‘a priori’ defined group classification narrative, failing to capture the complexity of varying group characteristics, …
Environment and Waste
This entry explores the emergence of one of the most iconic aspects of environmental management in the late twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries: the challenge of dealing with “waste” in consumption‐based societies. Linked to broader social and political discourses on the environment, understanding, defining, and dealing with waste have become a preoccupation for researchers and governments seeking to address a range of environmental goals.…
Geographies of Transition
The growth of community-based Transition Town initiatives in countries like the UK, USA and Canada is popularly perceived to represent a broad, socially inclusive and grounded approach to tackling environmental problems in place-based communities. In focusing on resilience as a core theme, so-called re-localisation initiatives attempt to adopt consensus based approaches to decision making and to highlight the need for an 'inner transition' of the…
Sustainable Lifestyles
No time for smokescreen skepticism
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Practicing the cultural green economy
Debates concerning the development of the green economy necessarily focus on “upstream” issues that underpin the re‐structuring of national and regional economies through the lenses of financial, institutional and regulatory change. However, the growing interest in the cultural green economy requires a re‐scaling of debates surrounding the links that occur in complex socio‐technical systems, notably between individual consumers, social units and …
Food Waste Bins
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. A case-study of consumers at home and away
Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour
Citizens, consumers and sustainability
Sustainable Lifestyles
Proenvironmental behaviour change remains a high priority for many governments and agencies and there are now numerous programmes aimed at encouraging citizens to adopt sustainable forms of living. However, although programmes for addressing behaviour change in and around the home are well developed, there has been significantly less attention paid to activities beyond this site of practice. This is despite the environmental implications of consu…
Sustainable lifestyles
Green consumption or sustainable lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer
Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
A holiday is a holiday’
Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour
Citizens, consumers and sustainability
A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour
Encouraging environmental action by citizens in developed nations has become a major priority for governments who are seeking to reach environmental targets by exhorting individuals to participate in a range of behaviours to ameliorate the negative impact of their lifestyles. Such activities conventionally include energy saving, water conservation, waste management and forms of ‘green’ consumption. Current policy discourses are focused around a l…
Are we all environmentalists now? Rhetoric and reality in environmental action
Strategies for sustainability
Policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in the means by which individuals can be encouraged to engage in environmental actions around the home. This paper uses evidence from existing empirical research and a large questionnaire survey undertaken by the author to argue that environmental action is open to a range of influences, focusing especially on environmental values, situational characteristics and psychological variables. According…
A Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Analysing Attitudes towards Household-Waste Management
The disposal of household waste has become a major problem for all industrialised countries. Public policy has focused on changing household attitudes by information campaigns. However, the link between environmental attitudes and actions is a very complex one. The authors develop a conceptual framework with three predictors: environmental values, situational variables, and psychological variables. This framework can be used to formulate both que…
Food Waste Bins
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
Personal mobility and climate change
Changing personal mobility behavior in response to climate change represents a major challenge for social scientists and practitioners, given the embedded nature of mobility in daily life. Attempts to understand, govern, and promote more sustainable mobility have tended to focus on individual decision making and incremental shifts in behavior, such as reduced car use and increased walking, cycling, and public transport use. Indeed, these are prog…
Smart cities and behavioural change
Geographies of Transition
The growth of community-based Transition Town initiatives in countries like the UK, USA and Canada is popularly perceived to represent a broad, socially inclusive and grounded approach to tackling environmental problems in place-based communities. In focusing on resilience as a core theme, so-called re-localisation initiatives attempt to adopt consensus based approaches to decision making and to highlight the need for an 'inner transition' of the…
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Shared space
Enabling communities for a changing climate
Sustainable Lifestyles
Proenvironmental behaviour change remains a high priority for many governments and agencies and there are now numerous programmes aimed at encouraging citizens to adopt sustainable forms of living. However, although programmes for addressing behaviour change in and around the home are well developed, there has been significantly less attention paid to activities beyond this site of practice. This is despite the environmental implications of consu…
What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice. Sustainable household waste management in the UK
Sustainable waste management is a core issue facing local and national governments. It is widely acknowledged that although producers of goods and materials have a role to play in reducing waste, the general public, in the way that we consume and utilize products, have a key role in delivering sustainable waste management. This paper supports this assertion with data from a study of waste management attitudes and reported behaviours in southwest …
The future of geography field course pedagogy in UK higher education
Field courses are widely regarded as integral to geography degree programmes, providing students with opportunities for experiential learning, often in unfamiliar international environments. Yet, this key area of pedagogy appears increasingly unsustainable and complex for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within the context of the urgent need for decarbonisation, increasing financial costs, and the institutional challenges of comprehensively e…
No time for smokescreen skepticism
Practicing the cultural green economy
Debates concerning the development of the green economy necessarily focus on “upstream” issues that underpin the re‐structuring of national and regional economies through the lenses of financial, institutional and regulatory change. However, the growing interest in the cultural green economy requires a re‐scaling of debates surrounding the links that occur in complex socio‐technical systems, notably between individual consumers, social units and …
Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography
This essay examines the ways in which geographers have engaged with the concept and practice of sustainability and the lessons that we might learn from commentaries on the application of geographical ideas in the field of public policy. First, the essay highlights the need to question our academic relationship with a ‘slippery’ concept such as sustainability. Second, it examines the role of geographers in generating impact for sustainability caus…
Climate forums
Internet discussion forums and other forms of virtual social networking media are increasingly being used as sites of discursive practice. Quite apart from the research opportunities offered by conventional forms of Internet research (such as surveys and polls), discussion forums (alongside Web-logs and social networking sites) arguably provide new opportunities for social researchers to gather data in this very particular, but nonetheless popula…
A Conceptual Framework for Understanding and Analysing Attitudes towards Household-Waste Management
The disposal of household waste has become a major problem for all industrialised countries. Public policy has focused on changing household attitudes by information campaigns. However, the link between environmental attitudes and actions is a very complex one. The authors develop a conceptual framework with three predictors: environmental values, situational variables, and psychological variables. This framework can be used to formulate both que…
Exploring sustainable consumption
Are we all environmentalists now? Rhetoric and reality in environmental action
Strategies for sustainability
Policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in the means by which individuals can be encouraged to engage in environmental actions around the home. This paper uses evidence from existing empirical research and a large questionnaire survey undertaken by the author to argue that environmental action is open to a range of influences, focusing especially on environmental values, situational characteristics and psychological variables. According…
What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice. Sustainable household waste management in the UK
Sustainable waste management is a core issue facing local and national governments. It is widely acknowledged that although producers of goods and materials have a role to play in reducing waste, the general public, in the way that we consume and utilize products, have a key role in delivering sustainable waste management. This paper supports this assertion with data from a study of waste management attitudes and reported behaviours in southwest …
The household energy gap
Literature Reviews
review of \nCase Studies on Ecotourism \nRalf Buckley \nWallingford, CABI, 2003, ISBN 0 85199 665 5
Green consumption or sustainable lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer
Behavioural attitudes towards water saving? Evidence from a study of environmental actions
Sustainable lifestyles
Factors Influencing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
Three waste management behaviors (waste reduction, reuse, and recycling) were examined with the use of a conceptual framework developed by the author. It was posited that environmental values, situational characteristics, and psychological factors all play a significant role in the prediction of waste management behavior, within the context of a core intention-behavior relationship. The framework was tested in a self-report questionnaire of 673 r…
A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour
Encouraging environmental action by citizens in developed nations has become a major priority for governments who are seeking to reach environmental targets by exhorting individuals to participate in a range of behaviours to ameliorate the negative impact of their lifestyles. Such activities conventionally include energy saving, water conservation, waste management and forms of ‘green’ consumption. Current policy discourses are focused around a l…
Environmental management for sustainable development 2nd edn – by Chris Barrow
A holiday is a holiday’
Climate forums
Internet discussion forums and other forms of virtual social networking media are increasingly being used as sites of discursive practice. Quite apart from the research opportunities offered by conventional forms of Internet research (such as surveys and polls), discussion forums (alongside Web-logs and social networking sites) arguably provide new opportunities for social researchers to gather data in this very particular, but nonetheless popula…
Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. A case-study of consumers at home and away
Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour
Citizens, consumers and sustainability
Sustainable Lifestyles
Proenvironmental behaviour change remains a high priority for many governments and agencies and there are now numerous programmes aimed at encouraging citizens to adopt sustainable forms of living. However, although programmes for addressing behaviour change in and around the home are well developed, there has been significantly less attention paid to activities beyond this site of practice. This is despite the environmental implications of consu…
Food Waste Bins
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
Practicing the cultural green economy
Debates concerning the development of the green economy necessarily focus on “upstream” issues that underpin the re‐structuring of national and regional economies through the lenses of financial, institutional and regulatory change. However, the growing interest in the cultural green economy requires a re‐scaling of debates surrounding the links that occur in complex socio‐technical systems, notably between individual consumers, social units and …
Sustainable Lifestyles
No time for smokescreen skepticism
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Environment and Waste
This entry explores the emergence of one of the most iconic aspects of environmental management in the late twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries: the challenge of dealing with “waste” in consumption‐based societies. Linked to broader social and political discourses on the environment, understanding, defining, and dealing with waste have become a preoccupation for researchers and governments seeking to address a range of environmental goals.…
Sociology (29 obras) · Political science (27 obras) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (23 obras) · Geography (20 obras) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (17 obras) · Economics (16 obras) · Business (15 obras) · Ecology (15 obras) · Public relations (14 obras) · Social science (14 obras)