Environment and Human Behaviour programme

The core objectives of the now finished ESRC-funded Environment and Human Behaviour programme were to explore the following questions:

• Why do people behave as they do towards the natural environment?
• How do or will people seek to adapt their behaviour in response to environmental change, especially rapid environmental change?
• What public policy approaches might persuade people to change their behaviour, either to mitigate the extent of negative environmental change, or to adapt to it in ways that do not exacerbate it, and to change their behaviour in ways that are least costly for society as a whole?