Charles Vlek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4867549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Vlek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Vlek |
| SIGNATURE | VLEK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4009-9100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Relations between economic wealth, ecological footprint, and environmental protection depend on climatic demands
It is an incomplete story that richer societies have larger ecological footprints and are more inclined toward environmental protection. Our 116-nation study shows that all countries, but especially richer countries, have larger ecological footprints under more demanding thermal climates. Further, business executives’ ratings of the prevalence of environmental regulations and practices in their country are lowest in poor countries with demanding …
Social Decision Methodology for Technological Projects
Judicious management of uncertain risks: I. Developments and criticisms of risk analysis and precautionary reasoning
In situations of serious uncertain risk, precautionary assessment, decision‐making and control may be inevitable. In this paper, the long and wide‐ranging debate about the precautionary principle (PP) is surveyed in comparison to parallel developments of classical risk analysis. The ‘new risks’ provoking precaution typically are complex, often extensive in space and time, socially diverse, supposedly unlikely but highly uncertain, and potentially…
Judicious management of uncertain risks: II. Simple rules and more intricate models for precautionary decision‐making
Rational decision theory could be more fully exploited for the prudent management of uncertain‐risk situations. After an integrative circumscription of the precautionary principle (PP), 10 key issues are discussed covering assessment, decision and control. In view of this, a variety of decision‐theoretic considerations are explored. ‘Sufficient evidence’ for precautionary action is treated as a diagnostic decision in the framework of signal detec…
Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: An integrative review and research agenda
Practice and Outcomes of Multidisciplinary Research for Environmental Sustainability
Since about 1990, when sustainability became a key concept for a wide range of scientific disciplines, the need for multidisciplinary collaboration has increased. We present five illustrative cases from the long‐standing environmental research work at the University of Groningen. The projects described are about hazardous materials risk, odor annoyance, energy scenario evaluation, climate decision analysis, and household consumption, respectively…
Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability: Problems, Driving Forces, and Research Topics
Social and behavioral research is crucial for securing environmental sustainability and improving human living environments. To put the following articles into broader perspective, we first give an overview of worldwide developments in environmental quality and trends in resource use. Second, five general driving forces of global environmental change are distinguished: population, affluence, technology, institutions, and culture; these are consid…
The effect of tailored information, goal setting, and tailored feedback on household energy use, energy-related behaviors, and behavioral antecedents
A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation
Values, Environmental Concern, and Environmental Behavior: A Study into Household Energy Use
In this study, the role of values in the field of household energy use is investigated by using the concept of quality of life (QOL). Importance judgments on 22 QOL aspects could be summarized into seven clearly interpretable value dimensions. The seven value dimensions and general and specific environmental concern contributed significantly to the explanation of policy support for government regulation and for market strategies aimed at managing…
Household preferences for energy-saving measures: A conjoint analysis
Measurement and Determinants of Environmentally Significant Consumer Behavior
Measures of proenvironmental behavior in psychological studies do not always reflect the actual environmental impact of a person or household. Therefore, the results of these studies provide little insight into variables that could be helpful in reducing household environmental impact. In this article, an environmentally significant measure of household consumer behavior (i.e., combined direct and indirect energy use) is presented and compared wi…
Instrumental-reasoned and symbolic-affective motives for using a motor car
Behaviour in commons dilemmas: Homo economicus and Homo psychologicus in an ecological-economic model
Future-sketching and multi-attribute evaluation may affect your preference order of complex policy scenarios
A total of 158 citizens from Groningen and surrounding villages evaluated summary descriptions of four different policy scenarios (A–D) for metropolitan traffic in the next decades. Eighty subjects rank-ordered the scenarios following a multi-attribute evaluation method. The other 78 subjects provided an ‘intuitive’ rank-ordering. Of each group, half of the subjects did and the other half did not sketch their expected future consequences of each …
Perceived control, nature of risk information and risk taking. An experimental test of a simple taxonomy of uncertainty
Uncertainty may be categorized along two dimensions: (1) the nature of probabilistic information (i.e. frequency information, about the outcomes of similar situations in the past, versus process information, about the way(s) in which a future loss might occur), and (2) the degree of personal control (i.e. the extent to which an activity's outcomes depend on internal factors (e.g. knowledge, skills) versus external (e.g. chance) factors). The effe…
Utility, Probability, and Human Decision Making
Human decision making involves problems which are being studied with increasing interest and sophistication. They range from controversial political decisions via individual consumer decisions to such
The effect of tailored information, goal setting, and tailored feedback on household energy use, energy-related behaviors, and behavioral antecedents
Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability: Problems, Driving Forces, and Research Topics
Social and behavioral research is crucial for securing environmental sustainability and improving human living environments. To put the following articles into broader perspective, we first give an overview of worldwide developments in environmental quality and trends in resource use. Second, five general driving forces of global environmental change are distinguished: population, affluence, technology, institutions, and culture; these are consid…
Household preferences for energy-saving measures: A conjoint analysis
Judicious management of uncertain risks: I. Developments and criticisms of risk analysis and precautionary reasoning
In situations of serious uncertain risk, precautionary assessment, decision‐making and control may be inevitable. In this paper, the long and wide‐ranging debate about the precautionary principle (PP) is surveyed in comparison to parallel developments of classical risk analysis. The ‘new risks’ provoking precaution typically are complex, often extensive in space and time, socially diverse, supposedly unlikely but highly uncertain, and potentially…
Practice and Outcomes of Multidisciplinary Research for Environmental Sustainability
Since about 1990, when sustainability became a key concept for a wide range of scientific disciplines, the need for multidisciplinary collaboration has increased. We present five illustrative cases from the long‐standing environmental research work at the University of Groningen. The projects described are about hazardous materials risk, odor annoyance, energy scenario evaluation, climate decision analysis, and household consumption, respectively…
Judicious management of uncertain risks: II. Simple rules and more intricate models for precautionary decision‐making
Rational decision theory could be more fully exploited for the prudent management of uncertain‐risk situations. After an integrative circumscription of the precautionary principle (PP), 10 key issues are discussed covering assessment, decision and control. In view of this, a variety of decision‐theoretic considerations are explored. ‘Sufficient evidence’ for precautionary action is treated as a diagnostic decision in the framework of signal detec…
Perceived control, nature of risk information and risk taking. An experimental test of a simple taxonomy of uncertainty
Uncertainty may be categorized along two dimensions: (1) the nature of probabilistic information (i.e. frequency information, about the outcomes of similar situations in the past, versus process information, about the way(s) in which a future loss might occur), and (2) the degree of personal control (i.e. the extent to which an activity's outcomes depend on internal factors (e.g. knowledge, skills) versus external (e.g. chance) factors). The effe…
Utility, Probability, and Human Decision Making
Human decision making involves problems which are being studied with increasing interest and sophistication. They range from controversial political decisions via individual consumer decisions to such
Perceived control, nature of risk information and risk taking. An experimental test of a simple taxonomy of uncertainty
Uncertainty may be categorized along two dimensions: (1) the nature of probabilistic information (i.e. frequency information, about the outcomes of similar situations in the past, versus process information, about the way(s) in which a future loss might occur), and (2) the degree of personal control (i.e. the extent to which an activity's outcomes depend on internal factors (e.g. knowledge, skills) versus external (e.g. chance) factors). The effe…
Future-sketching and multi-attribute evaluation may affect your preference order of complex policy scenarios
A total of 158 citizens from Groningen and surrounding villages evaluated summary descriptions of four different policy scenarios (A–D) for metropolitan traffic in the next decades. Eighty subjects rank-ordered the scenarios following a multi-attribute evaluation method. The other 78 subjects provided an ‘intuitive’ rank-ordering. Of each group, half of the subjects did and the other half did not sketch their expected future consequences of each …
Behaviour in commons dilemmas: Homo economicus and Homo psychologicus in an ecological-economic model
Instrumental-reasoned and symbolic-affective motives for using a motor car
Measurement and Determinants of Environmentally Significant Consumer Behavior
Measures of proenvironmental behavior in psychological studies do not always reflect the actual environmental impact of a person or household. Therefore, the results of these studies provide little insight into variables that could be helpful in reducing household environmental impact. In this article, an environmentally significant measure of household consumer behavior (i.e., combined direct and indirect energy use) is presented and compared wi…
Household preferences for energy-saving measures: A conjoint analysis
Values, Environmental Concern, and Environmental Behavior: A Study into Household Energy Use
In this study, the role of values in the field of household energy use is investigated by using the concept of quality of life (QOL). Importance judgments on 22 QOL aspects could be summarized into seven clearly interpretable value dimensions. The seven value dimensions and general and specific environmental concern contributed significantly to the explanation of policy support for government regulation and for market strategies aimed at managing…
A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation
Practice and Outcomes of Multidisciplinary Research for Environmental Sustainability
Since about 1990, when sustainability became a key concept for a wide range of scientific disciplines, the need for multidisciplinary collaboration has increased. We present five illustrative cases from the long‐standing environmental research work at the University of Groningen. The projects described are about hazardous materials risk, odor annoyance, energy scenario evaluation, climate decision analysis, and household consumption, respectively…
Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability: Problems, Driving Forces, and Research Topics
Social and behavioral research is crucial for securing environmental sustainability and improving human living environments. To put the following articles into broader perspective, we first give an overview of worldwide developments in environmental quality and trends in resource use. Second, five general driving forces of global environmental change are distinguished: population, affluence, technology, institutions, and culture; these are consid…
The effect of tailored information, goal setting, and tailored feedback on household energy use, energy-related behaviors, and behavioral antecedents
Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: An integrative review and research agenda
Judicious management of uncertain risks: I. Developments and criticisms of risk analysis and precautionary reasoning
In situations of serious uncertain risk, precautionary assessment, decision‐making and control may be inevitable. In this paper, the long and wide‐ranging debate about the precautionary principle (PP) is surveyed in comparison to parallel developments of classical risk analysis. The ‘new risks’ provoking precaution typically are complex, often extensive in space and time, socially diverse, supposedly unlikely but highly uncertain, and potentially…
Judicious management of uncertain risks: II. Simple rules and more intricate models for precautionary decision‐making
Rational decision theory could be more fully exploited for the prudent management of uncertain‐risk situations. After an integrative circumscription of the precautionary principle (PP), 10 key issues are discussed covering assessment, decision and control. In view of this, a variety of decision‐theoretic considerations are explored. ‘Sufficient evidence’ for precautionary action is treated as a diagnostic decision in the framework of signal detec…
Social Decision Methodology for Technological Projects
Relations between economic wealth, ecological footprint, and environmental protection depend on climatic demands
It is an incomplete story that richer societies have larger ecological footprints and are more inclined toward environmental protection. Our 116-nation study shows that all countries, but especially richer countries, have larger ecological footprints under more demanding thermal climates. Further, business executives’ ratings of the prevalence of environmental regulations and practices in their country are lowest in poor countries with demanding …
Economics (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Management science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works)