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  2. The lifestyle approach as basis for interventions and campaigns to promote climate-conscious consumption, sustainable mobility and energy conservation The lifestyle approach as basis for interventions and campaigns to promote climate-conscious consumption, sustainable mobility and energy conservation

The lifestyle approach as basis for interventions and campaigns to promote climate-conscious consumption, sustainable mobility and energy conservation

Modern lifestyles are based on specific modes of consumption, mobility and housing. They are distinguishable by their respective energy consumption. In order to reach the goals of a “2000-watt-society”.

Brief information

School:

Business

Status:

Completed

Period:

01.01.2014 - 31.10.2017

Overview

Content and purpose of the research project

The way people live and are mobile is associated with attitudes, cultural expressions, forms of social interaction, identifications and knowledge. Sociology has established theories and methods that make group-specific regularities and differences visible and has tied them in to lifestyle typologies. So, differences in terms of mobility and housing become recognizable as characteristic features of socio-cultural groups. This project identifies energy-consumption lifestyle groups in Lucerne's population and raises the question of their potential for sustainable behaviour. For this purpose, models from psychology and marketing are involved in an interdisciplinary approach. At the end, environmental agencies get a tool that has already been successfully used in marketing or prevention campaigns. The administration may discover potentials and needs towards more sustainable behaviour in Lucerne’s population and may include state-of-the-art communication strategies to stimulate more climate-conscious consumption, sustainable mobility and energy saving.

Scientific and social context of the research project

The research project combines sociological with behavioural and social psychological approaches. The methodology for the typing of lifestyle groups can be developed further to meet the needs of the administration. The project is on the one hand a significant contribution at the intersection of environmental sociology and environmental psychology and lays an important foundation for the necessary energy reduction with respect to the objectives of the “2000-Watt-society”.

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Facts

Type of project

Forschung

Internal organisations involved
  • CC Mobility
Funding
  • SNF-HSLU als Hauptgesuchsteller/in
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Persons involved: internal

Project manager
  • Timo Ohnmacht
Project Co-Head
  • Dorothea Schaffner
Member of project team
  • Suzan Bayrak
  • Katharina Elisabeth Kossmann
  • Matthias Mahrer
  • Sindhuri Ponnapureddy
  • Helmut Schad
  • Flavio Steiger
  • Yann Stricker
  • Christian Weibel
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Documents

  • Toolbox Velo

    (5.7 MB) .PDF 

  • Toolbox Fleisch

    (3.0 MB) .PDF 

  • Toolbox gebrauchte Güter

    (2.9 MB) .PDF 

  • Toolbox Mobiltelefon

    (1.9 MB) .PDF 

  • ToolBox Wohnen

    (4.6 MB) .PDF 

  • Toolbox öffentlicher Verkehr

    (2.1 MB) .PDF 

Publications

  • Article, review; peer reviewed (5)

    • Weibel, Christian; Ohnmacht, Timo; Schaffner, Dorothea & Kossmann, Katharina (2019). Reducing individual meat consumption: An integrated phase model approach. Food Quality and Preference, 73, 8-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.11.011

    • Vu, Thao Thi & Ohnmacht, Timo (2019). The impact of the built environment on travel behavior: The Swiss experience based on two National Travel Surveys. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2020(36), 100386.

    • Ohnmacht, Timo; Vu, Thi Thao; Schaffner, Dorothea & Weibel, Christian (2018). How to postpone purchases of a new mobile phone? Pointers for interventions based on socio-psychological factors and a phase model of behavioural change. Journal of Cleaner Production, 200, 809-818. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.292

    • Ohnmacht, Timo; Schaffner, Dorothea; Weibel, Christian & Schad, Helmut (2017). Rethinking social psychology and intervention design: A model of energy savings and human behavior. Energy Research & Social Science, C(26), 40-53. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.01.017

    • Schaffner, Dorothea; Ohnmacht, Timo; Weibel, Christian & Mahrer, Matthias (2017). Moving into energy-efficient homes: A dynamic approach to understanding residents' decision-making. Building and Environment, 2017(123), 211-222. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.06.041

  • Other publication formats (3)

    • Kossmann, Katharina Elisabeth (25.07.2019). Klimawandel: Wie man Fleischliebhabern Gemüse schmackhaft macht. https://www.zentralplus.ch/klimawandel-wie-man-fleischliebhabern-gemuese-schmackhaft-macht-1570149/

    • Ohnmacht, Timo & Kossmann, Katharina Elisabeth (8.4.2019). Nachhaltigkeit: Vom Gedanken zur Tat (Das Magazin - Hochschule Luzern). https://news.hslu.ch/vom-gedanken-zur-tat/

    • Ohnmacht, Timo (8.4.2019). Gezielt informieren, um Streuverluste zu vermeiden (energeiaplus - Magazin des Bundesamts für Energie). https://energeiaplus.com/2019/04/09/gezielt-informieren-um-streuverluste-zu-vermeiden/

  • Presentation (conference/report/lectures) (4)

    • Ohnmacht, Timo (30.01.2020). Zielgruppenmodelle für Massnahmen zur Reduktion des Energieverbrauchs. Sozialwissenschaften und Praxis im Dialog: Auf dem Weg zu klimaneutralen Städten, Universität Basel.

    • Schaffner, Dorothea; Kossmann, Katharina; Ohnmacht, Timo & Weibel, Christian (05.09.2018). Towards a differentiated understanding of citizens' energy-saving behavior. BEHAVE 2018 - 5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Zürich.

    • Ohnmacht, Timo; Weibel, Christian; Schaffner, Dorothea & Mahrer, Matthias (21.05.2017). Rethinking social psychology and intervention design: A model of energy savings and human behavior. Human Dimensions of Environmental Risks, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland.

    • Ohnmacht, Timo & Weibel, Christian (01.09.2016). Lifestyle und Energiekonsum. Sozialwissenschaften und Praxis im Dialog: Energieeffiziente Haushalte, Winterthur.

Brief information

School:

Business

Status:

Completed

Period:

01/01/2014 - 10/31/2017

Project Head

Prof. Dr. Timo Ohnmacht

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+41 41 228 41 88

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