Greening Household Behaviour
Overview from the 2011 Survey - Revised edition
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- Greening Household Behaviour
Developing growth strategies that promote greener lifestyles requires a good understanding of the factors that affect people’s behaviour towards the environment. Based on periodic surveys of more than 10 000 households, this publication presents responses from the most recent round of the OECD survey implemented in 2011, in 5 areas (energy, food, transport, waste and water) and 11 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
The survey provides a common framework to collect unique empirical evidence for better policy design. Analysis comparing the data across countries, policy conditions and household characteristics reveals which measures most effectively change behaviour. Each round of the survey also allows to track changes over time and to explore new emerging issues.
The new survey confirms the importance of providing the right economic incentives for influencing our decisions. The findings indicate that “soft” measures such as labelling and public information campaigns also have a significant complementary role to play. Spurring desirable behaviour change requires a mix of these instruments.
This edition completely replaces the previously posted 2013 edition.
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OECD 2011 Survey: Implementation
OECD work on Greening Household Behaviour involves implementing a periodic survey on Environmental Policy and Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC) across a number of countries and areas. This activity was initiated with the first survey in 2008 and the second round was implemented in early 2011 in eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Details on the project timeline are provided in .
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