Alina Mia Udall

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at University of Warwick

Humans are generating many environmental problems and our behaviours are not sustainable over the long term. According to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on the impacts of global warming by Allen and colleagues in 2018, encouraging pro-environmental energy behaviour is most likely to reduce carbon emissions, which...

This Deliverable elaborates a consolidated scientific knowledge base stemming from the correlation of the main findings obtained throughout the ECHOES project with the existing literature in order to advance consensus on the key factors and relationships driving (or meaningfully influencing) specific energy choices and related behavioural patterns...

Encouraging pro‐environmental behaviour (PEB) is an environmental and societal concern. Encouraging PEB focussing on how consumers see themselves (their identity) has blossomed. However, a theoretical assessment of this research is missing. Three main identity theories seem to best explain the research, specifically, and two‐fold, identity, and soc...

Prolific research suggests identity associates with pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) that are individual and/or group focused. Individual PEB is personally driven, self-reliant, and are conducted on one’s own (e.g., home recycling). Group focused PEB is other people-reliant and completed as part of a group (e.g., attending meetings of an environ...

In two studies, the role of nature experiences and social norms during childhood is explored next to adulthood biospheric values, connectedness to nature, environmental identity, and objective knowledge in relation to pro-environmental behaviors. Study 1 (N = 185) tested the hypothesized model in the realm of general pro-environmental behaviors and...

As the extreme climate crisis increases, sustainable development is at the forefront of the public mind. However, as one of the major catalysts of sustainable development, sustainable consumer behavior (SCB) is still not being adopted by mainstream consumers. Therefore, this study attempted to find a new way to encourage sustainable consumer behavi...

This paper shows that interventions based on social norms and on increasing the visibility of people's decisions to others (“decision observability”) present promising pathways of generating public support for renewable energy development. In a laboratory experiment (n = 300), we show that social norms and decision observability increase support fo...

Transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy sources is indispensable to the achievement of carbon-neutral targets in climate change mitigation. Such transition not only requires policy changes and technological advances but also hinges on individuals' actions and support. Accordingly, there is a pressing need to engage the public in renewable e...