Mark Boulet

• Monash University (Australia)

Targeting households with food waste reduction interventions represents a critical opportunity to meet global targets to halve food loss and waste. While the evidence base on the effectiveness of food waste interventions is growing generally, less is known about the outcomes of household-focused interventions. This mixed methods study explores how...

The COMB model of behaviour, which aids in understanding behaviours by exploring and categorising the barriers and drivers of behaviour change, and in developing interventions, has been widely utilised. This model identifies three crucial elements for behaviour enactment: capability, motivation, and opportunity. However, for projects involving comp...

More than half of the waste in the global food system's consumption stage comes from households, which therefore represent a critical entry point to tackle this challenge with its combined social, economic, and environmental impacts. Yet there is a tension for policy makers between promoting food waste reduction behaviours to householders and overl...

Changing consumer food waste-related behaviours is critical to meeting global targets of halving food loss and waste. This paper presents a food waste reduction intervention trialled in five Australian schools and explores its influence on food provisioning practices, changed behaviours and food waste. Consisting of a mix of educational, skills-bas...

Households are responsible for a significant amount of food waste, estimated to be around 50% of economic value in developed countries. This food waste emerges from the complex interplay of behaviours associated with the planning, shopping, storing, preparing and disposing practices of food provisioning. Three segments were identified based on anal...

Changing the household food waste related behaviours of consumers vital to the sustainable transformation of the global food system. This study utilised a video-elicitation methodology to explore the different factors that influence the food provisioning practices of the household dietary gatekeeper from a multi-level perspective, and to consider t...

The challenge of understanding and influencing human behaviour has been the focus of decades of applied psychology research and other forms of scientific enquiry. Knowledge from this research can add considerable value to problem-solving by illuminating potential solutions and, just as importantly, flagging areas where investment may be wasted on s...

In the previous chapter, we suggested that you might not be “normal” - namely that what motivates, or prevents, your own engagement with a particular behaviour might be very different to what influences your target audience. We introduced a range of conscious and unconscious behavioural influences and argued that it is important to identify which a...

We know that many policy and program problems are complex, and do not have one single behavioural solution. Indeed, one problem could involve multiple different stakeholders, who may all need to enact a wide range of behaviours to create a positive impact. The previous chapters describe the Exploration phase of the BWA Method, including tools such...

The use of lethal methods to manage locally overabundant wildlife populations is rarely without some level of public opposition or debate. While a range of factors have been found to be associated with public support for the use of lethal methods, research has predominately focused on a small set of species in a limited number of countries. We buil...

Changing the everyday food-related behaviours of consumers is a critical part of tackling the global food waste challenge. Comprehensive frameworks of household food waste and consumer behavior are needed to guide the development of targeted interventions and future research agendas. This study systematically reviews food waste and behaviour studie...

Behavioral theories have much to offer researchers and policy makers who seek sustainable resource management within households. However, much research on household resource consumption applies theories of the individual to understand the behavioral patterns of what are very often groups of people cohabiting in a particular dwelling. This misalignm...

Waste is an inherent part of the global food system, with significant environmental, social and economic impacts. Rather than simply managing its disposal, addressing the food waste challenge in Australia requires engagement with consumers to encourage behaviours that reduce wastage. This exploratory case study utilised a behavioural approach to id...

Introduction: Neurogenic bladder following acute spinal cord injury (SCI) increases urinary tract infection (UTI) risk and affects quality of life and health system costs. Objectives: This study aimed to identify, describe and evaluate quality of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for managing neurogenic bladder following SCI. Methods: A comp...

Over recent times concern about the physical environment has fluctuated. Even after the coverage of environment and sustainability issues in the education of many professions, a decline of community concern suggests that the potential for the inclusion of environmental issues in the work of professionals could be limited. This situation raises the...

Information and communication technologies can be a valuable tool for enhancing health communication. However, not everyone is utilising the wide suite of digital opportunities. This disparity has the potential to exacerbate existing social and health inequalities, particularly among vulnerable groups such as those who are in poor health and the el...

The evidence base for the performance and effectiveness of non-structural measures to manage stormwater pollution in industrial areas is relatively underdeveloped, despite their increased use in practice. This study aims to advance stormwater management practice and research by presenting a detailed case study of the development, implementation and...

Interim evaluations of government programs can sometimes reveal lower than expected outcomes, leading to the question of how adjustments can be made while the program is still underway. Although adaptive management frameworks can provide a practical roadmap to address this question, a lack of successful learnings and poor implementation have hamper...

Background: Optimising bladder management following acute spinal cord injury (SCI) improves quality of life and reduces costs associated with bladder complications. This project aimed to identify best evidence-informed practice for bladder catheter management following SCI; explore current practice across Australia and New Zealand; and describe bar...

Following the inaugural Australian Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) research symposium in November 2014, we — a group of emerging researchers in Environmental Education/Sustainability Education (EE/SE) — commenced an online collaboration to identify and articulate our responses to the main themes of the symposium. Identifying as #aaee...

Training employees in sustainability knowledge and skills is considered a vital element in creating a sustainability culture within an organisation. Yet, the particular types of training programs that are effective for this task are still relatively unknown. This case study describes an innovative workplace training program using a ‘head, hands, he...

There is general theoretical agreement that parents should alter offspring sex ratios in response to the relative costs of producing and raising sexually dimorphic male and female offspring. Among raptors females are often much larger than males, yet there is little skew in nestling sex ratios at the population level. The food intake of male and fe...

Among large falcons males provide most of the prey for the breeding attempt. In the light of such high male contribution it might be expected that males vary in their provisioning ability and hence their reproductive success. Parental provisioning rates during the nestling period were investigated at thirteen Peregrine Falcon nests with broods of f...