Publications by category
Books
Stewart B, Jan P, Tim R, Gareth S (2017). Geographies of Transport and Mobility.
Bridge G, Barr SW, Bousorovski S, Bradshaw M, Brown E, Bulkeley H, Walker G (2016).
Energy and Society: a critical perspective., Taylor and Francis.
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Energy and Society: a critical perspective
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Barr SW (2008). Environment and Society: sustainability, policy and the citizen. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr SW (2004). Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis. London, David Fulton.
Barr SW (2002). Household Waste in Social Perspective., Ashgate.
Journal articles
Williamson D, Dawkins L, Barr S, Lampkin S (In Press). "What drives commuter behaviour?": a Bayesian clustering approach for understanding opposing behaviours in social surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A
Dawkins L, Williamson D, Barr S, Lampkin S (In Press). Influencing Transport Behaviour: a Bayesian Modelling
Approach for Segmentation of Social Surveys. Journal of Transport Geography
Lampkin SR, Barr S, Williamson DB, Dawkins LC (2023). Engaging publics in the transition to smart mobilities.
GeoJournalAbstract:
Engaging publics in the transition to smart mobilities
Commercial and public sector interests surrounding technological developments are promoting a widespread transition to autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems and smart phone communications in everyday life, as part of the smart mobility agenda. There is, however, inadequate understanding about the impact of such a shift on potential users, their readiness to engage and their vision of transportation systems for the future. This paper presents the findings from a series of citizen panels, as part of a 2-year project based in south-west England, focusing on in-depth discussions regarding the future of commuting, the flow of the daily commute and the inclusion of publics in smart mobility planning. The paper makes three key propositions for researchers: enabling publics should lead to a visionary evolution in the development of sustainable transportation systems; commercial interests, public bodies and IT innovators must employ a holistic approach to mobility flows; and, processes engaging publics need to be inclusive when co-creating solutions in the transition to smart mobilities.
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Auster RE, Puttock AK, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2023). Learning to live with reintroduced species: beaver management groups are an adaptive <i>process</i>.
Restoration Ecology,
31(5).
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Learning to live with reintroduced species: beaver management groups are an adaptive process
In anthropogenic landscapes, wildlife reintroductions are likely to result in interactions between people and reintroduced species. People living in the vicinity may have little familiarity with the reintroduced species or associated management, so will need to learn to live with the species in a new state of “Renewed Coexistence.” in England, Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) are being reintroduced and U.K. Government agencies are currently considering their national approach to reintroduction and management. Early indications are this will include requirement for “Beaver Management Groups” (BMGs) to engage with local stakeholders. This policy paper reports on qualitative research that captured lessons from the governance of two existing BMGs in Devon (south‐west England), drawing on both a prior study and new interview data. Through the analysis, we identified that BMGs are not a fixed structure, but an adaptive process. This consists of three stages (Formation, Functioning, and Future?), influenced by resource availability and national policy direction. We argue that, where they are used, Species‐specific Management Groups could provide a “front line” for the integration of reintroduced species into modern landscapes, but their role or remit could be scaled back over time and integrated into existing structures or partnerships to reduce pressure on limited resources, as knowledge of reintroduced species (such as beaver) grows and its presence becomes “normalized.” There must be sufficient flexibility in forthcoming policy to minimize constraint on the adaptive nature of BMGs and similar groups for other reintroduced species, if they are to facilitate a sustainable coexistence.
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Buchan P, Evans L, Pieraccini M, Barr S (2023). Marine citizenship: the right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability.
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Marine citizenship: the right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability
Marine citizenship is a relatively new field of enquiry and research to date has focused on individual pro-environmental behaviour change as an expression of responsibility towards the ocean. The field is underpinned by knowledge-deficit and technocratic approaches to behaviour change such as awareness raising, ocean literacy, and environmental attitudes research. In this paper we develop an interdisciplinary and inclusive conceptualisation of marine citizenship. We use mixed methods to study the views and experiences of active marine citizens in the United Kingdom to broaden understandings of marine citizens’ characterisation of marine citizenship, and their perceptions of its importance in policy- and decision-making. Our study shows that marine citizenship entails more than individual pro-environmental behaviours, and includes public-facing and socially collective political actions. We contextualise the role of knowledge, finding more complexity than normative knowledge-deficit approaches permit. We illustrate the importance of a rights-based framing of marine citizenship which incorporates political and civic rights to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability. Recognising this more inclusive approach to marine citizenship, we propose an expanded definition to support further exploration of the multiple dimensions and complexities of marine citizenship and to enhance its benefits for marine policy and management.
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Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities.
Journal of Flood Risk Management,
15(2).
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Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities
AbstractNatural flood management (NFM) methods work with natural processes to reduce flood risk, while often providing additional benefits such as water quality improvement or habitat provision. Increasingly, the activity of an animal—beavers—is recognised to potentially provide flow attenuation, along with multiple benefits for the environment and society, but there can also be associated challenges. We use Q‐Methodology to elicit and understand human perspectives of beavers and their potential role in flood management among communities living downstream of beavers at three sites in England (Cornwall, Yorkshire and the Forest of Dean). This is the first time a study has focused on downstream communities as the primary stakeholders. We identify diverse perspectives that exhibit a range of value judgements. We suggest a catchment‐based approach to beaver management and public engagement may facilitate deeper recognition of contextual perspectives in decision‐making and enable knowledge dissemination with communities. Further, we examine the relationship between beavers and other NFM methods through these perspectives. In doing so we identify features that relate to the unique element of relying on the natural behaviour of beavers for flood management, rather than human flood managers being the primary decision‐makers.
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Woodley E, Barr S, Stott P, Thomet P, Flint S, Lovell F, O'Malley E, Plews D, Rapley C, Robbins C, et al (2022). Climate Stories: enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication.
Geoscience Communication,
5(4), 339-354.
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Climate Stories: enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication
Abstract. The climate science community faces a major challenge with respect to communicating the
risks associated with climate change within a heavily politicised landscape that is
characterised by varying degrees of denial, scepticism, distrust in
scientific enterprise, and an increased prevalence of misinformation (“fake
news”). This issue is particularly significant given the reliance on
conventional “deficit” communication approaches, which are based on the
assumption that scientific information provision will necessarily lead to
desired behavioural changes. Indeed, the constrained orthodoxy of scientific practices in seeking to maintain strict objectivity and political separation imposes very tangible limits on the potential effectiveness of climate
scientists for communicating risk in many contemporary settings. To address
these challenges, this paper uses insights from a collaboration between UK
climate scientists and artist researchers to argue for a more creative and
emotionally attentive approach to climate science engagement and advocacy.
In so doing, the paper highlights innovative ways in which climate change
communication can be reimagined through different art forms to enable
complex concepts to become knowable. We suggest that in learning to express
their work through forms of art, including print-making, theatre and
performance, song-writing, and creative writing, researchers experienced not
only a sense of liberation from the rigid communicative framework operating
in their familiar scientific environment but also a growing self-confidence in their ability and willingness to engage in new ways of expressing their work. As such, we argue that scientific institutions and funding bodies should recognise the potential value of climate scientists engaging in advocacy through art–science collaborations and that these personal investments and contributions to science engagement by individuals should be rewarded and valued alongside conventional scientific outputs.
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Barr S (2022). Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography: treading an uneven path. Space and Polity, 26(2), 102-108.
Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gatersleben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (2022). Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate, 1(5).
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Renewed coexistence: learning from steering group stakeholders on a beaver reintroduction project in England.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH,
68(1).
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Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2022). ‘I feel the weather and you just know’. Narrating the dynamics of commuter mobility choices. Journal of Transport Geography, 103
Barr S (2021). An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,
27(4), 1029-1030.
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Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum, 127, 283-292.
Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum, 125, 140-149.
Auster RE, Barr S, Brazier R (2020). Alternative perspectives of the angling community on Eurasian beaver (<i>Castor fiber</i>) reintroduction in the River Otter Beaver Trial. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(7), 1252-1270.
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Improving engagement in managing reintroduction conflicts: learning from beaver reintroduction. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(10), 1713-1734.
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Wildlife tourism in reintroduction projects: Exploring social and economic benefits of beaver in local settings. Journal for Nature Conservation, 58, 125920-125920.
Bryan K, Ward S, Barr S, Butler D (2019). Coping with Drought: Perceptions, Intentions and Decision-Stages of South West England Households.
Water Resources Management,
33(3), 1185-1202.
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Coping with Drought: Perceptions, Intentions and Decision-Stages of South West England Households
As water supply in England increasingly faces threats of climate change, urbanisation and population growth, there is an imperative for household water users to be more resilient to extremes such as drought. However, since English water users have not traditionally been involved in drought management, there is need for in-depth understanding of perceptions and intentions towards drought management at a household scale to inform policy approaches. This paper fills this gap by investigating the perceptions and intentions of South West England households towards drought and drought coping. A theoretical framework developed through the lens of protection motivation theory and applying the trans-theoretical model, formed the basis of analysis of a survey administered in two communities in Exeter, England. Results indicated that despite low perceived likelihood and consequences of drought in their local area, participants were willing to implement household drought coping measures. Cluster analyses using a k-means clustering algorithm, found that participants were generally segmented in two typologies at different decision-stages. These decision-stages were defined by the variables perceived drought consequence, coping response efficacy, and behavioural intentions. Decision-stages were identified as contemplative and responsive decision-stages, illustrating willingness and participation in drought coping response at the household level. The importance of applying these psychological paradigms holds value for application in water company market research and policy decision-making in the context of targeted intervention strategies aimed at engendering drought resilient households.
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Brown K, Adger WN, Devine-Wright P, Anderies JM, Barr S, Bousquet F, Butler C, Evans L, Marshall N, Quinn T, et al (2019). Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability. Global Environmental Change, 56, 11-17.
Barr SW, Woodley E (2019). Enabling Communities for a changing climate: re-configuring spaces of hazard governance. Geoforum, 100, 116-127.
Barr S (2018). Personal mobility and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 9(5).
Barr S (2017). Knowledge, expertise and engagement. Environmental Values, 26(2), 125-130.
Barr S, Pollard J (2016). Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’. Environment and Planning a Economy and Space, 49(1), 47-64.
Barr SW (2015). Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 7, 115-115.
Hall CM, Amelung B, Cohen S, Eijgelaar E, Gössling S, Higham J, Leemans R, Peeters P, Ram Y, Scott D, et al (2015). Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research.
Tourism Management,
47, 352-356.
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Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
This final response to the two climate change denial papers by Shani and Arad further highlights the inaccuracies, misinformation and errors in their commentaries. The obfuscation of scientific research and the consensus on anthropogenic climate change may have significant long-term negative consequences for better understanding the implications of climate change and climate policy for tourism and create confusion and delay in developing and implementing tourism sector responses.
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Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Are we resilient enough?. Exe Press, 35, 7-8.
Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Climate Change: communicating the risks.
Geography Review,
28(1), 34-37.
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Climate Change: communicating the risks
Scientists argue that climate change caused by humans is a major threat to billions of people in the world today. Yet many of us don’t appear to accept the science. This article explores why we need to study the ways that people react to issues like climate change and how we can help people understand the risks they pose to their everyday lives.
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Hall CM, Amelung B, Cohen S, Eijgelaar E, Go ssling S, Higham J, Leemans R, Peeters P, Ram Y, Scott D, et al (2014). No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad.
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No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Shani and Arad (2014) claimed that tourism scholars tend to endorse the most pessimistic assessments regarding climate change, and that anthropogenic climate change was a “fashionable“ and “highly controversial scientific topic“. This brief rejoinder provides the balance that is missing from such climate change denial and skepticism studies on climate change and tourism. Recent research provides substantial evidence that reports on anthropogenic climate change are accurate, and that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including from the tourism industry, play a significant role in climate change. Some positive net effects may be experienced by some destinations in the short-term, but in the long-term all elements of the tourism system will be impacted. The expansion of tourism emissions at a rate greater than efficiency gains means that it is increasingly urgent that the tourism sector acknowledge, accept and respond to climate change. Debate on tourism-related adaptation and mitigation measures is to be encouraged and welcomed. Climate change denial is not.
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Barr S (2014). Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?.
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography,
96(3), 231-243.
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Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?
Debates concerning the development of the green economy necessarily focus on "upstream" issues that underpin the re-structuring of national and regional economies through the lenses of financial, institutional and regulatory change. However, the growing interest in the cultural green economy requires a re-scaling of debates surrounding the links that occur in complex socio-technical systems, notably between individual consumers, social units and the architectures of the developing green economy. This necessitates a research and policy agenda that is attentive to both the complexities of such interactions (between structures, processes and practices) and the imperative to foster change in practices within wider society. This article explores the ways in which environmental social scientists have examined and evidenced these issues, arguing that two major barriers still exist for creating adequate understandings and opportunities for change. First, the overt focus on the individual consumer as a unit of measurement and political attention has stifled debate concerning the ways in which environmentally related social practices have developed in association with wider economic contexts. In this way, environmental social scientists have often failed to make the connections between individuals, practices and the economic system. Second, in adopting a largely individualistic perspective, environmental social scientists have tended to focus their attention on incrementalist and narrowly defined views of what ecological citizenship might look like and constitute in the green economy. The article therefore argues that environmental social scientists need to constructively engage in a new inter-disciplinary dialogue about the role, purpose and ethics of citizen participation in developing and sustaining the green economy in an age of climate change and potential resource scarcity.
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Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2013). A Smarter Choice? Exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmentally sustainable mobility. Environment and Planning C
Barr S, Guilbert S, Metcalfe A, Riley M, Robinson GM, Tudor TL (2013). Beyond recycling: an integrated approach for understanding municipal waste management.
Applied Geography,
39, 67-77.
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Beyond recycling: an integrated approach for understanding municipal waste management
Recent decades have witnessed a major increase in structured recycling services offered to households across the developed world, in large part providing a kerbside pick-up of materials for recycling in addition to waste destined for landfill sites. Yet despite these service improvements, local authorities still face major challenges in reducing the overall volume of materials collected and the appropriate treatment of an expanding range of materials, including food and garden wastes. Moving 'up' the waste hierarchy towards reduction, re-use and repair raises questions about the ways in which municipal authorities can effectively engage individuals to conceptualise and deal with household materials in ways that move beyond the simple disposal of things, to a re-consideration of 'waste' through new practices of (re)creating value via both habitual and externally-driven behaviours. Utilising an analysis of quantitative survey data from research undertaken in the Royal Borough of Kingston, London, this paper argues that new practices of (re)creating value are underlain by both individualistic and social characteristics, and through the use of a segmentation analysis, the paper presents an example of the ways in which ideas concerning the discrete 'social marketing' of pro-environmental behavioural change can be challenged through unveiling the complexity of waste-related practices. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
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Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2013). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate.
Water Resources Management,
27(4), 959-979.
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Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate
This paper considers aspects of environmental social science research in the UK and explores an obvious bias towards the development of instruments to manage demand as an adaptation to climate change, and consequently the predominance of interest in the customer from a demand-side perspective. In the case of water, this has resulted in an inappropriate mixing of individualist research methods designed to measure public perceptions of risk and water-based practices, with mass consumption data that cannot be specifically linked to the individual. This mixing has a tendency to reinforce a long-standing blame culture that drives interest in the development of behaviour change initiatives while the relatively unchallenged hydraulic mission to provide safe drinking water and sanitation progresses. With this in mind this paper reviews examples of water use research from California, Australia, and the UK and highlights the more effective routes to understanding water customers and developing behaviour change initiatives that utilise stages of change models and grounded techniques incorporating qualitative and quantitative data from individual sources. A secondary aim is to argue for re-framing the relations between various actors in a changing climate to allow the development of new policy approaches, learning, and openness, from industry, regulators, and customers, based on new theories from the field. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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Metcalfe A, Riley M, Barr S, Tudor T, Robinson G, Guilbert S (2012). Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
60, 135-155.
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Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK: exploring water-user perceptions. Urban Water Journal
Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2012). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Management, 1-21.
Barr SW, Devine-Wright P (2012). Resilient Communities: transforming sustainabilities. Local Environment, 17(5), 525-532.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2012). ‘Lead has become Carbon Dioxide'. Framing sustainable travel in the age of climate change. Local Environment, 17(4), 425-440.
Tudor TL, Robisnon GM, Riley M, Guilbert S, Barr SW (2011). Challenges facing the sustainable consumption and waste management agendas:. perspectives on UK households. Local Environment, 16, 51-66.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2011). Citizen-consumers? Challenges for sustainable travel in an age of climate change. Town and Country Planning, 80, 399-402.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2011). Citizens, Consumers and Sustainability: (Re)Framing Environmental Practice in an Age of Climate Change. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1224-1233.
Barr S (2011). Climate Forums: virtual discourses on climate change and the sustainable lifestyle. Area, 43, 14-22.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2011). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. Applied Geography, 32, 798-809.
Prillwitz J, Barr S (2011). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. Journal of Transport Geography, 19(6), 1590-1600.
Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2011). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. Journal of Transport Geography, 19, 1590-1600.
Prillwitz J, Barr S (2011). Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour.
Journal of Transport Geography,
19(6), 1590-1600.
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Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour
Future scenarios for the transport sector are increasingly confronted with the finite nature of fossil-based resources (petrol, natural gas) and an urgent need for reductions of negative transport-related effects (CO 2 and other exhaust emissions, noise, land consumption). In view of limited technical advances and efficiency improvements, along with growing traffic volumes, behavioural changes towards more sustainable travel futures have attained a crucial importance. This paper will discuss initial results from a 2-year project (funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC) which aims to develop the notion of sustainability-related 'mobility styles' as a context for applying targeted social marketing policies to specific population segments. Based on ten focus group discussions and a survey of more than 1500 participants in the South West of England, two segmentation approaches are used to identify gaps between different domains of individual travel behaviour and the varying role of attitudes for travel decisions. The results demonstrate the usefulness and limitations of existing segmentation approaches and underline the need for more complex and comprehensive mobility style frameworks as basis for measures aiming at behavioural change towards sustainable mobility. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
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Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Sustainable Lifestyles: sites, practices and policy. Environment and Planning A, 43, 3011-3029.
Barr S (2011). The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality and Social Change.
URBAN STUDIES,
48(16), 3631-3633.
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Barr SW, Shaw G (2011). The Policy and Practice of ‘Sustainable Lifestyles’. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 54, 1331-1350.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1234-1244.
Barr S, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2011). ‘Helping People Make Better Choices’: exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmental sustainability. Applied Geography, 31, 712-720.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles T, Prillwitz J (2010). 'A holiday is a holiday': practicing sustainability, home and away. Journal of Transport Geography, 18, 474-481.
Barr S (2010). Book review of Environment and citizenship: integrating justice, responsibility, and civic engagement. PROG HUM GEOG, 34(4), 546-547.
Ward S, Butler D, Barr S, Memon FA (2009). A framework for supporting rainwater harvesting in the UK.
Water Sci Technol,
60(10), 2629-2636.
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A framework for supporting rainwater harvesting in the UK.
Numerous policy vehicles have been introduced in the UK promoting the use of rainwater harvesting (RWH). However, an 'implementation deficit' exists where legislation limits action by failing to provide adequate support mechanisms. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to construct a framework to address the issue of overcoming this deficit. Evidence bases have identified six deficit categories, which confirm a lack of enabling of stakeholders. Outline recommendations, such as coordinated information provision and reconsideration of incentive schemes are made in relation to these categories to complete the framework for supporting RWH in the UK.
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Barr SW (2009). Review of Davies, A. R. Geographies of Garbage Governance: interactions, interventions and outcomes. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008. Environment and Planning C, 27(5), 942-943.
Corbridge S, Barr S, Griffin L, Bailey I, Portman M, Betsill M, Pugh M (2009). Review: the Limits to Capital: the Geographies of Garbage Governance: Interventions, Interactions and Outcomesm, Governing a Common Sea: Environmental Policies in the Baltic Sea Region, Innovation in Environmental Policy? Integrating the Environment for Sustainability, Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, the Politics of Climate Change, Insecure Spaces: Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia. Environment and Planning. C, Government and Policy, 27(5), 940-949.
Barr S (2009). The geographies of garbage governance: interventions, interactions and outcomes. ENVIRON PLANN C, 27(5), 942-943.
Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2008). A novel conceptual framework for examining environmental behavior in large organizations - a case study of the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom.
ENVIRON BEHAV,
40(3), 426-450.
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A novel conceptual framework for examining environmental behavior in large organizations - a case study of the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom
This article is concerned with the development of a conceptual framework of the key antecedents that lead to sustainable environmental behavior amongst employees within a large organizational setting. A range of quantitative and qualitative methods was employed in the study to examine behavior. Using the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom as a case study, the research demonstrated that both organizational and individual/cognitive factors served as key predictors for sustainable waste behavior. However, these factors did not work in isolation but rather, within a dynamic, holistic, intrarelated, and interrelated conceptual framework to ultimately determine individual behavior. The results suggest the need to address both categories of variables when developing policies to achieve greater sustainability in the behavior of employees within large organizations.
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Barr S (2008). Book Review of Environmental management for sustainable development 2nd edn. AREA, 40(1), 142-143.
Barr S, Gilg AW (2007). A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour.
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography,
89 B(4), 361-379.
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A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour
Encouraging environmental action by citizens in developed nations has become a major priority for governments who are seeking to reach environmental targets by exhorting individuals to participate in a range of behaviours to ameliorate the negative impact of their lifestyles. Such activities conventionally include energy saving, water conservation, waste management and forms of 'green' consumption. Current policy discourses are focused around a linear model of behaviour, which assumes that an awareness of environmental problems and knowledge of how to tackle them will lead to individual ameliorative actions. This paper explores these assumptions by applying a previously developed conceptual framework (Barr et al. 2001) to a range of environmental actions, to show how a variety of different factors influence environmental action. Using data from a major (UK) Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project in Devon, United Kingdom, data on environmental actions collected during the project are interrogated to uncover the relationships between environmental actions and how these are influenced by values, personal situations and attitudes. The research demonstrates that environmental action is structured around people's everyday lifestyles (rather than a compartmentalized notion of behaviour) and that these have radically different antecedents. © 2007 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
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Tudor T, Barr S, Gilg A (2007). A tale of two locational settings: is there a link between pro-environmental behaviour at work and at home?.
Local Environment,
12(4), 409-421.
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A tale of two locational settings: is there a link between pro-environmental behaviour at work and at home?
This paper examines the nature of the relationship between sustainable waste management behaviour between the 'home' and 'work' settings. A questionnaire survey of 566 employees of the Cornwall NHS (National Health Service) was used to examine the nature of the behaviour between the two settings and to understand the main factors influencing the behaviour. The results indicate that there is strong link in the behaviour of individuals between the two settings, with employees who practised recycling activities at home also being more likely to practise a similar behaviour at work. There was also some similarity in the level of sustainability of the behaviour between the two settings. These behaviours were strongly influenced by the underlying attitudes and beliefs of the staff towards the environment. The implications for policy-making to improve sustainable waste management behaviour amongst individuals in England and Wales are also discussed.
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Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). A tale of two settings: does pro-environmental behaviour at home influence sustainable environmental actions at work?. Local Environment, 4(12), 409-421.
Barr SW (2007). Factors influencing environmental attitudes and behaviors: a UK case study of household waste management. Environment and Behavior, 39(4), 435-473.
Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). Linking intended behaviour and actions: a case study of healthcare waste management in the Cornwall NHS.
RESOUR CONSERV RECY,
51(1), 1-23.
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Linking intended behaviour and actions: a case study of healthcare waste management in the Cornwall NHS
This paper examines the main factors which link intended behaviour and actions to sustainably manage waste from, within a large organisational setting in the UK. A quantitative study of 566 employees from the Cornwall NHS and waste bin analyses were employed to examine the difference between intended behaviour and actions. Regression analyses demonstrated that the key factors that linked intended behaviour to actions were the beliefs about the priority of waste management as an issue and the benefits of recycling, as well as whether staff were concerned with recycling. The results also indicate the usefulness of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as a framework for predicting actions. Recommendations for overcoming the gap between intended behaviour and actions are also suggested. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). Strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the UK.
Waste Management and Research,
25(6), 510-516.
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Strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the UK
This paper examines strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS). Using quantitative (questionnaires and waste bin analyses) and qualitative (ethnography and interviews) methodologies, the study examined the waste management practices of staff from the Cornwall NHS. It was found that employee participation in waste recycling at work was low due to a range of factors including NHS focus and policies, group norms, and individual attitudes and beliefs about sustainable waste management. Recommendations for improving the sustainability of NHS, employee waste management practices, with a specific focus on recycling are included in the paper. These recommendations include measures focused towards both the NHS organization and individual staff members. © ISWA 2007.
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Barr SW (2006). Book review of Waste in Ecological Economics. Local Environment, 3(11), 347-348.
Barr SW (2006). Environmental Action in the Home: investigating the "value-action" gap. Geography, 91(1), 43-54.
Barr SW, Gilg A (2006). Sustainable Lifestyles: framing environmental action in and around the home. Geoforum, 37(6), 906-920.
Barr S (2006). Waste in Ecological Economics.
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT,
11(3), 347-348.
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Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Behavioural attitudes towards water saving: Evidence from a study of environmental actions. Ecological Economics, 57(3), 400-414.
Barr S (2005). Book Review of Garbage wars: the search for environmental justice in Chicago. ENVIRON PLANN A, 37(2), 379-380.
Barr SW (2005). Book review of Case Studies in Ecotourism. Tourism Geographies, 1(7), 113-115.
Barr S, Gilg AW (2005). Conceptualising and analysing household attitudes and actions to a growing environmental problem - Development and application of a framework to guide local waste policy.
APPL GEOGR,
25(3), 226-247.
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Conceptualising and analysing household attitudes and actions to a growing environmental problem - Development and application of a framework to guide local waste policy
Publication of the Government's Waste Strategy in June 2000 [Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR). (2000). Waste Strategy 2000. London: the Stationary Office] highlighted the importance of gaining public involvement in managing household waste in more sustainable ways. However, practically implementing waste policy at this micro-level requires a greater appreciation of the factors that influence individual behaviour patterns. This paper begins by outlining the concepts and variables involved in predicting individual waste management behaviour and a conceptual framework is illustrated, based on the Fishbein and Ajzen's Theory of Reasoned Action [Fishbein, M. and Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief attitude, intention and behavior: an introduction to theory and research. Addison-Wesley: Reading, MA] for organising the large number of motivations and barriers involved in promoting individual waste management behaviour. The utilisation of the framework in an applied context is demonstrated with a case study of waste management in Exeter, Devon, where a large number of practical policy recommendations were derived from an analysis of the determining factors of waste management behaviour. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2005). Defining the multi-dimensional aspects of household waste management: a study of reported behaviour in Devon. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 45(2), 172-192.
Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Encouraging Environmental Action by Exhortation: Evidence from a case study in Devon. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 48(4), 593-618.
Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Green consumption or sustainable lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer. Futures, 37(6), 481-504.
Barr S, Church A (2005). Literature Reviews. Tourism Geographies, 7(1), 113-117.
Barr S, Gilg, A.W. Ford, N. (2005). ‘The Household Energy Gap: examining the divide between habitual and purchase-related conservation behaviours’. Energy Policy, 33(11), 1425-1444.
Barr SW (2004). Are we all environmentalists now? Rhetoric and reality in environmental action. Geoforum, 35(2), 231-249.
Barr S (2004). What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice, sustainable household waste management in the UK.
SUSTAIN DEV,
12(1), 32-44.
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What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice, sustainable household waste management in the UK
Sustainable waste management is a core issue facing local and national governments. It is widely acknowledged that although producers of goods and materials have a role to play in reducing waste, the general public, in the way that we consume and utilize products, have a key role in delivering sustainable waste management. This paper supports this assertion with data from a study of waste management attitudes and reported behaviours in southwest England. The paper presents a conceptual framework for examining attitudes and behaviours towards waste management, incorporating environmental values, situational factors and psychological variables. Using this framework, the paper demonstrates the range of influences acting on attitudes and actions towards sustainable waste management practices, focusing especially on recycling behaviour. The paper argues that the framework could provide a useful tool for examining the variety of factors influencing a range of public actions relevant to sustainable development. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Attitudes towards recycling household waste in Exeter, Devon: quantitative and qualitative approaches. Local Environment, 8(4), 407-421.
Barr SW (2003). Book review of Exploring Sustainable Consumption. Journal of Rural Studies, 2(19), 253-254.
Barr S (2003). Exploring sustainable consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES,
19(2), 253-254.
Author URL.
Barr, S. (2003). Strategies for Sustainability: citizens and responsible environmental behaviour. Area, 35(3), 227-240.
Barr SW (2003). The Big Clean Up: Public Rhetoric and Reality. Town and Coutnry Planning, 71(10), 280-281.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 1: environmentalism in Britain today. Town and Country Planning, 72(6), 185-186.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 2: how do people value the environment. Town and Country Planning, 72(7), 216-217.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 3: encouraging environmental action. Town and Country Planning, 72(7), 218-220.
Barr SW, Ford N, Gilg AW (2001). A conceptual framework for understanding and analysing attitudes towards household waste management. Environment and Planning A, 33(11), 2025-2048.
Barr SW (2001). Book review of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development. Local Environment, 3(6), 375-376.
Barr SW (2001). Book review of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development. Local Environment, 3(6), 375-376.
Barr S, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2001). Differences between household waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported behaviours, intentions and explanatory variables.
Environmental and Waste Management,
4(2), 69-82.
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Differences between household waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported behaviours, intentions and explanatory variables
Research into individual waste management has focused primarily on recycling behaviour. It is argued here that there also needs to be a focus on reuse and reduction of waste. The diversity of waste behaviour and its antecedents is therefore emphasised. The declared reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour of 673 households in Exeter, Devon is detailed. Differences between behaviours are examined. This is then discussed in the context of the intentions stated by respondents towards these three activities. Comparison are made. The data are then subjected to factor analyses and regression procedures rto demonstrate the diversity of variables that explain each behaviour.
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Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2001). Differences between reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported waste management behaviour. Journal of Environmental and Waste Management, 4(2), 69-82.
Chapters
Barr S (In Press). Household Analysis: researching 'green lifestyles through a survey approach. In Fahy F, Bau H (Eds.) Research Methods for Sustainability in the Social Sciences.
Barr S, Shaw G (2022). 14 “Getting the summer you deserve” locking-in flying to the tourist experience. In (Ed) Low-Cost Aviation, 213-231.
Barr S (2017). Environment and Waste. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography, 1-9.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Preston J (2017). Influencing travel behaviour. In Shaw J, Doherty I (Eds.) The Inside Track: why transport matters and how we can make it better, Routledge.
Barr SW (2016). Environment and Waste. In Castree N, Goodchilrd M, Kobayashi A, Lui W, Marston D, Richardson D (Eds.)
Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology.
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Environment and Waste
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Barr SW, Shaw G (2016). Knowledge co-production and behavioural change: collaborative approaches for promoting low-carbon mobility. In Higham J, Hopkins D (Eds.)
Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, Goodhfellow Publishing.
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Knowledge co-production and behavioural change: collaborative approaches for promoting low-carbon mobility
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Barr S, Prillwitz J (2016). Negotiating tourist identities: Mobilities in an age of climate change. In (Ed)
Lifestyle Mobilities: Intersections of Travel, Leisure and Migration, 223-238.
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Negotiating tourist identities: Mobilities in an age of climate change
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Barr SW (2015). Beyond behaviour change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In Kennedy E, Cohen M, Krogman N (Eds.) Putting Sustainability into Practice: applications and advances in research on sustainable consumption, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 91-108.
Barr S (2015). Chapter 5: Beyond behavior change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In (Ed) Putting Sustainability into Practice, 91-108.
Barr SW (2015). Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS. In Clifford N, French S, Valentine G (Eds.)
Key Methods in Geography, London: Sage.
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Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS
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Barr SW, Wright JD (2015). Sustainable Lifestyles. In (Ed)
International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences 2E, London: Elsevier.
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Sustainable Lifestyles
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Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2014). A strategic framework for rainwater harvesting. In Adeyeye K (Ed) Water Efficiency in Buildings: theory and practice, New York, US: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 209-226.
Shaw G, Barr S, Wooler J (2014). The Application of Social Marketing to Tourism. In McCabe S (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Marketing, London: Routledge, 54-65.
Robinson GM, Guilbert S, Tudor T, Barr SW, Metcalfe A, Riley M (2013). Ethnicity, environmental behaviour and environmental justice: Initial findings from research in a London borough. In (Ed) Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment, 291-314.
Barr SW (2011). Environmentalism. In Mansvelt J (Ed) Encyclodepia of Green Consumerism, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 125-129.
Barr SW (2011). Recycling. In Mansvelt J (Ed) Encyclopedia of Green Consumerism, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 375-382.
Barr S, Prillwitz J (2011). Sustainable Travel: mobilities, lifestyles and practice. In Newton P (Ed) Urban Consumption, CSIRO, 159-171.
Barr SW (2010). Municipal Solid Waste Management. In Warf B (Ed) Enclyclopedia of Geography, Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2008). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: a social marketing approach. In Krishna SJ (Ed) Marketing for Social Change: perspectives and experiences, Hyderebad: Icfair University Press, 145-169.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2008). Understanding and promoting behaviour change using lifestyle groups. In Reddy S (Ed) Green Consumerism: approaches and country experiences, Hyderebad: Icfai University Press, 108-128.
Barr SW, Gilg AW (2004). Global Action Plan: rural environmentalism in Devon. In Lobley M (Ed) Annual Review: Centre for Rural Research.
Barr S (2003). 7 Waste minimisation strategies. In (Ed) Local Environmental Sustainability, 138-168.
Barr SW, Gilg AW (2003). Environmentalism in rural Devon. In Lobley M (Ed) Annual Review: Centre for Rural Research.
Barr SW (2003). Waste minimisation strategies. In Theobald K, Buckingham-Hatfield, S (Eds.) Local Environmental Sustainability: approaches and solutions, Cambridge: Woodhead, 138-168.
Conferences
Barr S, Prillwitz J (In Press). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. World Conference on Travel Research.
Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2010). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. EASST010 Conference. 31st Aug - 3rd Sep 2010.
Barr SW, Ward S, Memon FA, Butler D (2010). Transitioning SMEs to Sustainable Water Management Practices: Challenges and Opportunities. Sustainable Water Management 2010.
Barr SW (2009). Encouraging Pro-environmental Behaviour: exploring a lifestyles approach. Sustainable Consumption: changing habits.
Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2009). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J, Shaw G (2009). Spaces of (un)sustainability: the ‘paradox’ of the citizen-consumer. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW (2009). ‘Eco-hypocrisy!’ Contested notions of the ‘sustainable lifestyle’. Association of American Geographers.
Barr SW (2009). “Like Swampy and his mates”. Sustainable lifestyles and the behaviour change agenda’. University of Nottingham School of Geography seminar.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles T, Prillwitz J (2008). 'A holiday is a holiday’: practicing sustainability, home and away. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW, Coles T, Shaw G (2008). Changing Behaviours for a Changing Climate: a lifestyles approach. Claimte Change: dangerous rates of change.
Barr SW (2008). Changing consumption patterns. ESRC Seminar: Local economic development in an era of climate change and peak oil.
Barr SW, Blewitt J (2008). Developing Sustainability Leaders for the Future. all Our Futures.
Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2008). Do We Go Too Far? Connections Between Tourist Travel, Mobility Behaviour and (Sustainable) Lifestyles. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW (2008). Doing Your Bit? can we change our lifestyles to help the Planet?. Planet Eath Lecture Series.
Barr SW (2008). Sustainable Lifestyles: just for Christmas?. University of Plymouth School of Geography Seminar.
Barr SW (2008). Sustainable Lifestyles?. The contested notions of environmentally-responsible behaviour. Great Western Research Seminar Series.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2007). Environmentally responsible behaviour and attitudes to low cost airlines: a UK perspective. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW (2006). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: policy and practice in the UK. University of Portsmouth Geography Seminar.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Targeting Specific Lifestyle Groups: a social marketing approach. Influencing Behaviour Through Policy Conference.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2006). Understanding and Promoting Behaviour Change Using Lifestyle Groups. can We Change a Rubbish Habit? Conference (international conference on the social context of waste management).
Barr SW (2005). Household waste and environmental lifestyles in Devon. RGS-IBG.
Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2005). The Role of Sustainability within service delivery in the National Health Service in Cornwall (UK). International Solid Waste Management Association Conference.
Barr SW (2005). The household energy gap: examining the links between attitudes and behaviours in energy saving in the home. Institute for Sustainable Energy Seminar.
Barr SW (2004). Green Today, Gone Tomorrow: the new environmentalism. University of Plymouth Geograplhy Seminar paper.
Barr SW (2003). Collaborative working and environmental behaviour research. Environmental Psychology in the UK.
Barr SW (2003). Conceptualising environmental action: a geographical approach. Seminar, Institute forSustainable Technology.
Barr SW (2003). Green consumerism. Centre for Rural Research Policy Symposium.
Barr SW, Gilg AW (2003). New horizons in environmental behaviour research in geography. RGS-BG.
Barr SW (2003). Sustainable lifestyles: environmental action in and around the home. International Sustainable Development Research Conference.
Barr SW (2002). Environmental behaviour research in geography: integrating research agendas. Environmental Psychology in the UK.
Barr SW (2001). Factors influencing household attitudes and behaviours towards waste management in Exeter, Devon. Environmental Design Research Association Conference.
Reports
Coles TE, Barr SW (In Prep). West Somerset Housing Needs Survey 2003. West Somerset District Council, 2004.
Auster R, Barr S, Brazier R (2022). Beaver Management Groups: Capturing lessons from the River Otter Beaver Trial and River Tamar Catchment (NECR434). Natural England, Natural England.
Cloke P, Barr SW, Barnett J, Williams A (2015).
Housing Needs in Exeter: a report to Exeter City Council. Exeter City Council, Exeter, University of Exeter.
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Housing Needs in Exeter: a report to Exeter City Council
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Barr SW, Woodley E (2014).
Flooding and the River Barle Catchment. Exmoor National Park Authority, Exeter, University of Exeter.
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Flooding and the River Barle Catchment
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Barr SW (2007). Sustainable Living Project: Final Report (Report 4) Analysis of Data from Residents & DCHA Employees. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.
Barr SW (2006). Exeter City Council Student Recycling Project Report. Exeter City Council.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: a social marketing approach. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.
Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 1 Behaviour and Attitude Change at Oak Meadow.
Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 2 Environmental knowledge, awareness and quality of life e at Oak Meadow. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.
Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 3 a comparison between Oak Meadow residents and a sample of Devon’s population. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Targeting Specific Lifestyle Groups. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Technical Report: Providing the supporting analysis, methodological approaches and emerging findings. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.
Barr SW (2003). Green consumption: a social-psychological perspective. Exeter, University of Exeter.
Publications by year
In Press
Williamson D, Dawkins L, Barr S, Lampkin S (In Press). "What drives commuter behaviour?": a Bayesian clustering approach for understanding opposing behaviours in social surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A
Barr S, Prillwitz J (In Press). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. World Conference on Travel Research.
Barr S (In Press). Household Analysis: researching 'green lifestyles through a survey approach. In Fahy F, Bau H (Eds.) Research Methods for Sustainability in the Social Sciences.
Dawkins L, Williamson D, Barr S, Lampkin S (In Press). Influencing Transport Behaviour: a Bayesian Modelling
Approach for Segmentation of Social Surveys. Journal of Transport Geography
In Prep
Coles TE, Barr SW (In Prep). West Somerset Housing Needs Survey 2003. West Somerset District Council, 2004.
2023
Barr S, Burningham K, Golding S, Guilbert S, Hartley S (2023). ACCESS Guiding Principles V4 - March 2023.
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ACCESS Guiding Principles V4 - March 2023
WHAT ARE OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES?
The ACCESS programme has three Guiding Principles:
1. Environmental Sustainability (ES)
2. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
3. Knowledge Co-Production (KCP).
These three principles play two key roles within ACCESS. Firstly, to act as a common, intertwined, thread running through, and stitching together, different parts of the programme. Secondly, to inform, shape and guide all ACCESS activities.
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Lampkin SR, Barr S, Williamson DB, Dawkins LC (2023). Engaging publics in the transition to smart mobilities.
GeoJournalAbstract:
Engaging publics in the transition to smart mobilities
Commercial and public sector interests surrounding technological developments are promoting a widespread transition to autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems and smart phone communications in everyday life, as part of the smart mobility agenda. There is, however, inadequate understanding about the impact of such a shift on potential users, their readiness to engage and their vision of transportation systems for the future. This paper presents the findings from a series of citizen panels, as part of a 2-year project based in south-west England, focusing on in-depth discussions regarding the future of commuting, the flow of the daily commute and the inclusion of publics in smart mobility planning. The paper makes three key propositions for researchers: enabling publics should lead to a visionary evolution in the development of sustainable transportation systems; commercial interests, public bodies and IT innovators must employ a holistic approach to mobility flows; and, processes engaging publics need to be inclusive when co-creating solutions in the transition to smart mobilities.
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Auster RE, Puttock AK, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2023). Learning to live with reintroduced species: beaver management groups are an adaptive <i>process</i>.
Restoration Ecology,
31(5).
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Learning to live with reintroduced species: beaver management groups are an adaptive process
In anthropogenic landscapes, wildlife reintroductions are likely to result in interactions between people and reintroduced species. People living in the vicinity may have little familiarity with the reintroduced species or associated management, so will need to learn to live with the species in a new state of “Renewed Coexistence.” in England, Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) are being reintroduced and U.K. Government agencies are currently considering their national approach to reintroduction and management. Early indications are this will include requirement for “Beaver Management Groups” (BMGs) to engage with local stakeholders. This policy paper reports on qualitative research that captured lessons from the governance of two existing BMGs in Devon (south‐west England), drawing on both a prior study and new interview data. Through the analysis, we identified that BMGs are not a fixed structure, but an adaptive process. This consists of three stages (Formation, Functioning, and Future?), influenced by resource availability and national policy direction. We argue that, where they are used, Species‐specific Management Groups could provide a “front line” for the integration of reintroduced species into modern landscapes, but their role or remit could be scaled back over time and integrated into existing structures or partnerships to reduce pressure on limited resources, as knowledge of reintroduced species (such as beaver) grows and its presence becomes “normalized.” There must be sufficient flexibility in forthcoming policy to minimize constraint on the adaptive nature of BMGs and similar groups for other reintroduced species, if they are to facilitate a sustainable coexistence.
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Buchan P, Evans L, Pieraccini M, Barr S (2023). Marine citizenship: the right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability.
PLoS ONEAbstract:
Marine citizenship: the right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability
Marine citizenship is a relatively new field of enquiry and research to date has focused on individual pro-environmental behaviour change as an expression of responsibility towards the ocean. The field is underpinned by knowledge-deficit and technocratic approaches to behaviour change such as awareness raising, ocean literacy, and environmental attitudes research. In this paper we develop an interdisciplinary and inclusive conceptualisation of marine citizenship. We use mixed methods to study the views and experiences of active marine citizens in the United Kingdom to broaden understandings of marine citizens’ characterisation of marine citizenship, and their perceptions of its importance in policy- and decision-making. Our study shows that marine citizenship entails more than individual pro-environmental behaviours, and includes public-facing and socially collective political actions. We contextualise the role of knowledge, finding more complexity than normative knowledge-deficit approaches permit. We illustrate the importance of a rights-based framing of marine citizenship which incorporates political and civic rights to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship for sustainability. Recognising this more inclusive approach to marine citizenship, we propose an expanded definition to support further exploration of the multiple dimensions and complexities of marine citizenship and to enhance its benefits for marine policy and management.
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2022
Barr S, Shaw G (2022). 14 “Getting the summer you deserve” locking-in flying to the tourist experience. In (Ed) Low-Cost Aviation, 213-231.
Woodley E, Barr S, Stott P, Thomet P, Flint S, Lovell F, O'Malley E, Plews D, Rapley C, Robbins C, et al (2022). <em>Climate Stories</em>: Enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication. , 2022, 1-47.
Auster R, Barr S, Brazier R (2022). Beaver Management Groups: Capturing lessons from the River Otter Beaver Trial and River Tamar Catchment (NECR434). Natural England, Natural England.
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities.
Journal of Flood Risk Management,
15(2).
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Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities
AbstractNatural flood management (NFM) methods work with natural processes to reduce flood risk, while often providing additional benefits such as water quality improvement or habitat provision. Increasingly, the activity of an animal—beavers—is recognised to potentially provide flow attenuation, along with multiple benefits for the environment and society, but there can also be associated challenges. We use Q‐Methodology to elicit and understand human perspectives of beavers and their potential role in flood management among communities living downstream of beavers at three sites in England (Cornwall, Yorkshire and the Forest of Dean). This is the first time a study has focused on downstream communities as the primary stakeholders. We identify diverse perspectives that exhibit a range of value judgements. We suggest a catchment‐based approach to beaver management and public engagement may facilitate deeper recognition of contextual perspectives in decision‐making and enable knowledge dissemination with communities. Further, we examine the relationship between beavers and other NFM methods through these perspectives. In doing so we identify features that relate to the unique element of relying on the natural behaviour of beavers for flood management, rather than human flood managers being the primary decision‐makers.
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Woodley E, Barr S, Stott P, Thomet P, Flint S, Lovell F, O'Malley E, Plews D, Rapley C, Robbins C, et al (2022). Climate Stories: enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication.
Geoscience Communication,
5(4), 339-354.
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Climate Stories: enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication
Abstract. The climate science community faces a major challenge with respect to communicating the
risks associated with climate change within a heavily politicised landscape that is
characterised by varying degrees of denial, scepticism, distrust in
scientific enterprise, and an increased prevalence of misinformation (“fake
news”). This issue is particularly significant given the reliance on
conventional “deficit” communication approaches, which are based on the
assumption that scientific information provision will necessarily lead to
desired behavioural changes. Indeed, the constrained orthodoxy of scientific practices in seeking to maintain strict objectivity and political separation imposes very tangible limits on the potential effectiveness of climate
scientists for communicating risk in many contemporary settings. To address
these challenges, this paper uses insights from a collaboration between UK
climate scientists and artist researchers to argue for a more creative and
emotionally attentive approach to climate science engagement and advocacy.
In so doing, the paper highlights innovative ways in which climate change
communication can be reimagined through different art forms to enable
complex concepts to become knowable. We suggest that in learning to express
their work through forms of art, including print-making, theatre and
performance, song-writing, and creative writing, researchers experienced not
only a sense of liberation from the rigid communicative framework operating
in their familiar scientific environment but also a growing self-confidence in their ability and willingness to engage in new ways of expressing their work. As such, we argue that scientific institutions and funding bodies should recognise the potential value of climate scientists engaging in advocacy through art–science collaborations and that these personal investments and contributions to science engagement by individuals should be rewarded and valued alongside conventional scientific outputs.
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Barr S, Winks L, Hilser H (2022). Education at a Time of Emergency: a practitioner's handbook.
Barr S (2022). Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography: treading an uneven path. Space and Polity, 26(2), 102-108.
Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gatersleben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (2022). Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate, 1(5).
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Renewed coexistence: learning from steering group stakeholders on a beaver reintroduction project in England.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH,
68(1).
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Sukmana G (2022). Women and Food Waste in Indonesia: Within the Household and Community.
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Women and Food Waste in Indonesia: Within the Household and Community
Food waste has been a concern for numerous stakeholders because of its negative impact. Since consumers are believed to be the primary cause of food waste, various policies are in place to reduce food waste generated by consumers. On the other hand, academics carry out numerous studies, one of which examines the habits of consumers concerning food waste. Research also shows that women play a significant role in the community and at home when it comes to food and waste management. Therefore, this research aims to critically examine women’s experience and knowledge concerning food waste practices within the community and the household from a feminist perspective.
This study used a qualitative approach, in contrast to the majority of studies on gendered food waste management, which employ a quantitative approach. More precisely, this study criticised the use of a psychological approach by taking the ‘everyday life’ approach. Psychological approaches are deemed incapable of providing insight into the selection of individuals as units of analysis, and it disregards the decision-making process of individuals. RW 09 Palasari, a community in Bandung, Indonesia, was chosen as the research location, involving 29 female respondents.
This study found the importance of the ‘everyday life’ approach in research on food waste management in the community and the household from women’s perspective. In addition, this study also found that women played an important role in managing food waste in the household. As for the household scope, this study found two things: knowing that cultural and demographic factors affected women in food waste management practices, and women’s foodwork activities affected the amount of food waste produced.
While this study has a global scope on food waste, it is primarily based on empirical research conducted in Bandung, Indonesia. The study intends to serve as a guide for identifying common reasons for food waste; however, it does not provide a universal truth applicable to all places and cultures. To what extent places-specific or cultural factors can account for the degree of inconsistency in results is beyond the scope of this study but could be a potential area for future research.
This study also yielded recommendations for future research on gendered food waste management. A religious perspective in food waste management should be considered in future research because it was found to be quite influential in this study. Furthermore, because the majority of respondents in this study held traditional household divisions of labour, it is necessary to investigate the household division of labour when both men and women work in an office.
This study recommended several policy implementations in addition to future research. Women are the main target of food waste management campaigns because of their significant role in food waste management in the community and at home. A biodigester was also found to be effective in the management of food waste. As a result, more research is required so that people can manage food waste while also benefiting from this technology.
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Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2022). ‘I feel the weather and you just know’. Narrating the dynamics of commuter mobility choices. Journal of Transport Geography, 103
2021
Barr S (2021). An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth.
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE,
27(4), 1029-1030.
Author URL.
Hilser H (2021). Collective stewardship and pathways to change: understanding pro-social values, connectedness to nature and empathic capacity to cultivate ecocentrism in rural communities of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Abstract:
Collective stewardship and pathways to change: understanding pro-social values, connectedness to nature and empathic capacity to cultivate ecocentrism in rural communities of North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Drawing from multiple research traditions, I investigated pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours and assessed potential of behaviour change strategies, focusing on addressing hunting as a practice. An immersive 14-month ethnographic study involving participant observations, interviews, and focus groups explored the cognitive, social, and spiritual histories of four rural communities in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Particular attention was paid to the individualistic elements of attitudes, values, and beliefs, along with the social norms and perceived behavioural control governing these variables.
My research revealed highly pro-social communities, with empathic tendencies and care-giving values, demonstrating latent potential for conservation advocacy. Expression of these values is dependent on several loci of control, particularly normative pressures of close communal living and religious doctrine. Land stewardship through participation in resource management initiatives generates responsibility toward wildlife and natural areas. I discovered the heterogenization of old and new belief systems toac have major implications for control and acceptance of behaviours and how likely people partake in practices related to the environment. Next, a strong affinity for nature was recorded, demonstrated by preferences for natural settings, awe and wonder of nature, human-animal relations including expression of empathic and compassionate predispositions. I noted a growing phenomenon of cultural erosion and loss of traditional ecological knowledge. A call for preservationism reflected the wish to avert breakdown of ancient cultural roots and identities, and the wisdom which connects people to the natural world. Finally, I experienced emergent environmental identities and openness to change, with a transition toward pride over exploitation of native wildlife, suggesting potential pathways to ecocentrism and thus more sustainable lifestyles. I distilled these insights into a strategic theory of change. This includes developing campaign messages which promote pro-sociality and environmental citizenship; working within the governing structures of societal control, particularly belief systems; and speaking to pre-existing communal values and social norms surrounding the acceptance of exploitative practices related to the natural world. Emergent from this research is a nuanced understanding of cultural dynamism and the links between pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours, which may help to normalise more harmonious relationships between people and nature.
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Buchan PM (2021). Investigating marine citizenship and its role in creating good marine environmental health.
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Investigating marine citizenship and its role in creating good marine environmental health
The negative anthropogenic impacts upon the world ocean are accelerating. Marine citizenship has been proposed as a policy channel to work at an individual level of responsibility to improve marine environmental health and contribute to the achievement of a sustainable future. This interdisciplinary research reflects the principles of post-normal science, through its epistemologically pragmatic and pluralist approach to broadening our understanding of marine citizenship.
Drawing on environmental psychology, human geography, environmental law, green political theory, and sociology, this research considers marine citizenship according to four key research questions: i) What is marine citizenship and who participates in it? ii) How are institutional policy frameworks of marine citizenship understood, interpreted and experienced by participants? iii) How do motivational and value-based factors influence marine citizenship choices? and iv) How do place-related factors influence the practice of marine citizenship? Mixed methods were used to bring together a range of data and maximise their thesis contribution. The research design consisted of an online survey of active marine citizens reached via three case studies: two community marine groups and one national citizen science project. This was followed by ethnographic observation of marine citizenship in practice and open-ended interview of purposively selected participants, to maximise insight into diversity of marine citizens and gain in-depth qualitative data.
The results provide a number of novel insights into the conception and motivation of marine citizenship. In my research, prevailing interpretations of marine citizenship as a set of pro-environmental behaviours are extended by situating the concept within citizenship theory. Here I give additional focus to the understanding of marine citizenship as the right to construct and transform society’s relationship with the ocean, and how public participation in marine decision-making is perceived as being under-served by legislation and procedure. My data show that marine citizenship is influenced by a complex of interacting variables and that there is no one kind of person who becomes a marine citizen. Yet environmental identity, stimulation and conformity basic human values, climate change concern, place attachment and, in particular, place dependency are important factors for ‘thicker’ marine citizenship. The research uncovered a human affinity with the ocean through unique marine place attachment, which I call thalassophilia.
These findings challenge normative approaches to pro-environmental behaviour, which frequently focus on environmental education, information, and awareness raising. Creating opportunities for marine experiences promotes attachment to the ocean and in turn ‘thicker’ marine citizenship. The results collectively point to a marine identity, formed through ocean connectedness and enabled by favourable socio-economic and policy conditions. When associated with good ocean health, marine identity can underpin and be reinforced by marine citizenship. Marine citizenship coincides with broader environmental and civic citizenship; therefore marine experience opportunities may contribute to wider acceptance of policy and public participation in the paradigmatic change now facing humans, as we attempt to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the coming years.
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Auster R (2021). Renewed Coexistence: Human dimensions of reintroducing the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) into England.
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Renewed Coexistence: Human dimensions of reintroducing the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) into England
Coexistence is the adaptive but sustainable behaviour of humans and animals living together, which can be beneficial for humans. Conflicts can occur between humans and wildlife or among humans about wildlife which require effective and socially acceptable management solutions to achieve coexistence. Wildlife reintroduction is where species are returned to landscapes where they previously existed but are no longer present. A knowledge of how to anticipate and address conflicts in reintroduction scenarios would aid the development of sustainable solutions in this unique coexistence context, as would an understanding of how social benefits occur and can be maximised post-reintroduction. Further, understanding how reintroduction governance compares to the governance of coexistence with species that are already present would help aid the integration of reintroduced species into anthropogenic landscapes. In this thesis, these questions are addressed with a pragmatic, mixed-methods approach to investigating the human dimensions of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction in England. Informed by a foundational nationwide attitudinal survey, the research consists of a series of studies: two of potential conflicts, two of social benefits, and one exploring the experiences of stakeholders involved in a reintroduction project. The thesis finds: 1) potential conflicts can be anticipated and addressed with early and appropriate engagement, and by seeking to understand social attitudes towards potential management solutions beyond just reintroduction itself; 2) social benefits occur naturally to some extent, but are greatest where there is active investment in the opportunities; 3) lessons from existing literature can be applied to governance of coexistence with reintroduced species, but key differences arise from the ‘future-thinking’ needed in reintroduction. The thesis concludes reintroduction is both an ecological and social science, and defines ‘Renewed Coexistence’ as coexistence between a species which was formerly resident and humans in the locality today to whom the species is a ‘new’ presence.
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Daprano G (2021). Roots through the City: Urban Foraging and Ecological Literacy.
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Roots through the City: Urban Foraging and Ecological Literacy
Situating the practice of urban foraging within theoretical contexts of experiential learning necessitates a consideration of environmental discourses concerned with the challenges of placing ourselves into a concept of nature that is inclusive of the more-than-human beings we share the world with. The practice of gathering plants as food stuffs engages us politically as well as philosophically within these debates and requires a post-humanist appreciation of how to conduct research that acknowledges the messiness of the lifeworld. The experience of this through the lens of urban foraging remains tantalisingly beyond our ability to theorise and reduce it to absolutes. The ‘walk and talk’ interview method is deployed to comment first on the practices of urban foragers as an in-situ event replete with embodied and emotional entanglements, and secondly to be able to approach the concept of ecological literacy as a developmental faculty derived from the practice. Urban foraging simultaneously gives a means to develop greater awareness of the more-than -human through a material and physical experience of plant cycles and plant agency that also contributes to a growing awareness of food systems existing beyond a consumerist agenda. Consequently, levels of eco-literacy are enhanced through shared bodies and materials whilst engaged on a foraging walk in the city. The research asks that several large bodies of theory and empirical research - environmentalism, educational discourse and post-humanist geographies engage more fully in conversations aimed at uncovering how it is we can live and learn with more- than-human beings who partake as equal subjects in our research endeavors.
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Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum, 127, 283-292.
Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum, 125, 140-149.
Manning R (2021). The Role and Potential of Environmental Education for Enhancing the Wellbeing of Young People: a Case Study of the Field Studies Council, Slapton Ley.
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The Role and Potential of Environmental Education for Enhancing the Wellbeing of Young People: a Case Study of the Field Studies Council, Slapton Ley
This thesis explores the role that curriculum-based environmental education plays in influencing young people’s wellbeing. It adopts a social constructivist approach to understand how young people's wellbeing is understood, articulated, and experienced in residential learning environments. The thesis argues that positivistic and adult-centred accounts of wellbeing have restricted our appreciation of the diverse ways in which young people engage with and recognise their emotions in educational settings. In adopting an alternative framework, the thesis argues for experiential and subjective understandings of wellbeing to be developed through a range of methodological tools. The research sought to develop these ideas by focusing on the experiences of students visiting the Field Studies Centre at Slapton Ley (Devon, UK) and utilised focus groups and solicited participant diaries, providing a basis for phenomenological inquiry that enabled a direct engagement with young people participating in environmental education programmes.
The empirical research focused on the experiences of young people between the ages of 14 and 18 years on a residential, curriculum-based environmental education programme and examined the role and potential of environmental education for supporting the wellbeing of young people. From an initial thematic analysis of the data, five elements were identified as key to the participants’ wellbeing: wellbeing as multidimensional, social elements, psychological elements, physical health and environmental elements. These elements were then used to provide a framing for understanding young people’s experiences of wellbeing throughout the lived experience of curriculum-based environmental education and, as a result, the research yielded three themes that provide an understanding of the key experiences of environmental education and its connection to wellbeing: experiences of place, experiences of people, and the learning experience. Using these themes and the participants’ conceptualisations of wellbeing, the research then explored how strategies can be developed within environmental education to promote the wellbeing of young people and reveals the importance of fostering feelings of restoration, increasing social bonds and developing a sense of achievement and accomplishment. Consequently, this research contributes to the fields of environmental education and health and wellbeing research within a geographical context through demonstrating the importance of qualitative approaches in revealing the ways young people articulate their emotions in educational settings. Alongside this, it challenges assumptions about the way nature is utilised in wellbeing interventions, highlighting the role that social and cultural backgrounds can play in the way nature is experienced by different groups and how this can be addressed within environmental education. Therefore, a key contribution of this research is in providing an empirical analysis for the relationship between environmental education and wellbeing, and how to best design environmental education programmes that meet the needs of young people.
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2020
Auster RE, Barr S, Brazier R (2020). Alternative perspectives of the angling community on Eurasian beaver (<i>Castor fiber</i>) reintroduction in the River Otter Beaver Trial. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(7), 1252-1270.
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Improving engagement in managing reintroduction conflicts: learning from beaver reintroduction. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(10), 1713-1734.
Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Wildlife tourism in reintroduction projects: Exploring social and economic benefits of beaver in local settings. Journal for Nature Conservation, 58, 125920-125920.
2019
Harmannij D (2019). Bringing Environmental Issues into Church Life & Bringing Faith-based motivations into the Environmental movement: What role can faith play in addressing environmental problems?.
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Bringing Environmental Issues into Church Life & Bringing Faith-based motivations into the Environmental movement: What role can faith play in addressing environmental problems?
In recent years many people have started to see religious institutions as valuable actors in addressing environmental problems. However, beyond well-known statements by faith leaders, much remains understudied about how ‘ordinary believers’ engage with the often novel and polarised issue of environmental problems. Therefore, by building on existing research about postsecularity and ‘religion and the environment’ this thesis wants to understand how believers engage with the environment, both in the context of the church and within the wider society through collaboration with secular groups. Firstly, it will critique the approach that human geography scholarship has taken towards Habermas and his idea of postsecularity. Secondly, it seeks to understand how local churches relate and engage with the environment. Thirdly, it wants to understand how environmentally concerned Christians from a faith-based environmental group attempt to give environmental issues a more prominent place in church life and lastly, this thesis wants to understand how environmentally concerned Christians join secular groups on shared concerns about the planet. In its findings this thesis will be critical and point out the many struggles and difficulties that churches and environmentally concerned Christians face when they try to get involved with environmental issues. But it will also portray hopeful aspects such as the eco-church approach that one of the participating churches used and the strong faith-based motivations to address environmental problems that environmentally concerned Christians have.
This thesis will also argue that religion/faith doesn’t make believers ‘green’ but if for example people have trust in science, have been raised in an environmentally minded household and are left wing than their religious belief can provide a deep and sincere faith-based commitment for protecting the environment. This thesis will also argue that many environmentally concerned Christians are involved in secular environmental groups and find many shared concerns with them but that secular environmental groups also have little attention for personal faith or even find it ‘irrelevant’. The implications of this will be discussed and there will also be attention for the ways in which Christian environmental ethics can ‘cross over’ to the wider green movement and the rest of society.
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Bryan K, Ward S, Barr S, Butler D (2019). Coping with Drought: Perceptions, Intentions and Decision-Stages of South West England Households.
Water Resources Management,
33(3), 1185-1202.
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Coping with Drought: Perceptions, Intentions and Decision-Stages of South West England Households
As water supply in England increasingly faces threats of climate change, urbanisation and population growth, there is an imperative for household water users to be more resilient to extremes such as drought. However, since English water users have not traditionally been involved in drought management, there is need for in-depth understanding of perceptions and intentions towards drought management at a household scale to inform policy approaches. This paper fills this gap by investigating the perceptions and intentions of South West England households towards drought and drought coping. A theoretical framework developed through the lens of protection motivation theory and applying the trans-theoretical model, formed the basis of analysis of a survey administered in two communities in Exeter, England. Results indicated that despite low perceived likelihood and consequences of drought in their local area, participants were willing to implement household drought coping measures. Cluster analyses using a k-means clustering algorithm, found that participants were generally segmented in two typologies at different decision-stages. These decision-stages were defined by the variables perceived drought consequence, coping response efficacy, and behavioural intentions. Decision-stages were identified as contemplative and responsive decision-stages, illustrating willingness and participation in drought coping response at the household level. The importance of applying these psychological paradigms holds value for application in water company market research and policy decision-making in the context of targeted intervention strategies aimed at engendering drought resilient households.
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Brown K, Adger WN, Devine-Wright P, Anderies JM, Barr S, Bousquet F, Butler C, Evans L, Marshall N, Quinn T, et al (2019). Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability. Global Environmental Change, 56, 11-17.
Barr SW, Woodley E (2019). Enabling Communities for a changing climate: re-configuring spaces of hazard governance. Geoforum, 100, 116-127.
Warren S (2019). From spectacle to relational: an exploration of an emotionally and geographically centred approach to visitor behaviour change at the zoo.
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From spectacle to relational: an exploration of an emotionally and geographically centred approach to visitor behaviour change at the zoo.
This thesis is centred on the zoo, its 21st century mission as a centre for conservation, and specifically within this mission, the aim to engage visitors to undertake pro-environmental behaviours in support of wildlife and wider nature conservation. To date zoos have utilised community-based social marketing as the predominant approach to deliver such behavioural changes. This is reflective of the wider framework for addressing environmental challenges, where a psychologically-based approach to behaviour change has provided the dominant paradigm within western governance. This thesis engages with critique of this paradigm, which has failed to reduce the negative impact of human activities on the natural world, by exploring a richer engagement with the ‘more than rational’ i.e. emotional aspects of decision making within the context of the zoo. In so doing it mobilises alternative conceptualisations of behaviour change beyond the psychologically-based approach, and scholarship from animal geographies and wider cultural geography. The research methodology engaged an ethnographic approach, to date underutilised in zoo-based visitor studies. This was deployed in three separate phases between November 2016 and September 2017, engaging a total of 41 participants within 14 different participant groups. Go-along interviews at Paignton Zoo, Devon, were used to capture and explore participants’ emotional responses to the animals they encountered. Beyond the boundary of the zoo visit, semi-structured interviews enabled exploration of the influence of these zoo-based human-animal encounters on participants’ expressed feelings towards, and pro-environmental behaviours in support of, endangered wildlife and the wider natural world. From a detailed thematic analysis of the empirical data, three key themes were identified: embodied experience; persistence: the influence of the zoo visit over time and space; and opportunities and challenges. These provide the framing to address the influence of the emotional dimension of human-animal encounters at the zoo in relation to behaviour change. In addition, the research yielded four critical, cross-cutting dimensions, which have provided new and original evidence towards the value of employing an alternative research practice in relation to behaviour change at the zoo, which moves beyond the dominant psychologically-based approach: (i) the importance of the emotional dimension of human-animal encounters at the zoo as a dynamic element in driving potential behaviour change; (ii) the limitations of social marketing as an approach to engage visitors in wildlife conservation; (iii) the practices of visitor engagement at the zoo as a mechanism to deliver behaviour change; and (iv) the tensions in delivering the zoo’s behaviour change agenda alongside its other aims.
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2018
Barr SW, Shaw G, Ryley T, Prillwitz J (2018). Geographies of Transport and Mobility: prospects and challenges in an age of climate change.
Environmental ValuesAbstract:
Geographies of Transport and Mobility: prospects and challenges in an age of climate change
Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the 21st Century. In so doing, the book focuses on three devices to introduce readers to the critical debates in transport geography and mobilities research related to climate change. First, Part I provides the necessary context for understanding how personal mobility and the ways in which it relates to everyday living has evolved since the mid-19th Century. This will plot the intricate relationship between new forms of mobile technology, urban planning and design and social practices. Second, Part II will examine how researchers study transport and mobility through an exploration of the different intellectual trajectories of transport geography and its relationship to the mobilities paradigm that has come to dominate some social science disciplines in recent years. In so doing, this second part of the book will focus on two key aspects of personal mobility – the analysis of everyday travel practices and the geographies of tourism and leisure. Third, Part III will outline and discuss the discourse of sustainable mobility that has emerged in recent years and will examine the ways in which social, economic and environmental sustainability can be promoted through different strategies, focusing on the paradigm of behavioural change and then urban design. In this way, the book will aim to build a set of narratives for understanding and analysing personal mobility in the 21st Century and to position mobility within the context of likely major social transformations driven by climate change.
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Barr S (2018). Personal mobility and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 9(5).
2017
Barr S (2017). Environment and Waste. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography, 1-9.
Stewart B, Jan P, Tim R, Gareth S (2017). Geographies of Transport and Mobility.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Preston J (2017). Influencing travel behaviour. In Shaw J, Doherty I (Eds.) The Inside Track: why transport matters and how we can make it better, Routledge.
Barr S (2017). Knowledge, expertise and engagement. Environmental Values, 26(2), 125-130.
2016
Bridge G, Barr SW, Bousorovski S, Bradshaw M, Brown E, Bulkeley H, Walker G (2016).
Energy and Society: a critical perspective., Taylor and Francis.
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Energy and Society: a critical perspective
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Barr SW (2016). Environment and Waste. In Castree N, Goodchilrd M, Kobayashi A, Lui W, Marston D, Richardson D (Eds.)
Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology.
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Environment and Waste
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Barr S, Pollard J (2016). Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’. Environment and Planning a Economy and Space, 49(1), 47-64.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2016). Knowledge co-production and behavioural change: collaborative approaches for promoting low-carbon mobility. In Higham J, Hopkins D (Eds.)
Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, Goodhfellow Publishing.
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Knowledge co-production and behavioural change: collaborative approaches for promoting low-carbon mobility
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Barr S, Prillwitz J (2016). Negotiating tourist identities: Mobilities in an age of climate change. In (Ed)
Lifestyle Mobilities: Intersections of Travel, Leisure and Migration, 223-238.
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Negotiating tourist identities: Mobilities in an age of climate change
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2015
Barr SW (2015). Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 7, 115-115.
Barr SW (2015). Beyond behaviour change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In Kennedy E, Cohen M, Krogman N (Eds.) Putting Sustainability into Practice: applications and advances in research on sustainable consumption, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 91-108.
Barr S (2015). Chapter 5: Beyond behavior change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In (Ed) Putting Sustainability into Practice, 91-108.
Hall CM, Amelung B, Cohen S, Eijgelaar E, Gössling S, Higham J, Leemans R, Peeters P, Ram Y, Scott D, et al (2015). Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research.
Tourism Management,
47, 352-356.
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Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
This final response to the two climate change denial papers by Shani and Arad further highlights the inaccuracies, misinformation and errors in their commentaries. The obfuscation of scientific research and the consensus on anthropogenic climate change may have significant long-term negative consequences for better understanding the implications of climate change and climate policy for tourism and create confusion and delay in developing and implementing tourism sector responses.
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Cloke P, Barr SW, Barnett J, Williams A (2015).
Housing Needs in Exeter: a report to Exeter City Council. Exeter City Council, Exeter, University of Exeter.
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Housing Needs in Exeter: a report to Exeter City Council
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Barr SW (2015). Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS. In Clifford N, French S, Valentine G (Eds.)
Key Methods in Geography, London: Sage.
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Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS
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Barr SW, Wright JD (2015). Sustainable Lifestyles. In (Ed)
International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences 2E, London: Elsevier.
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Sustainable Lifestyles
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2014
Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2014). A strategic framework for rainwater harvesting. In Adeyeye K (Ed) Water Efficiency in Buildings: theory and practice, New York, US: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 209-226.
Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Are we resilient enough?. Exe Press, 35, 7-8.
Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Climate Change: communicating the risks.
Geography Review,
28(1), 34-37.
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Climate Change: communicating the risks
Scientists argue that climate change caused by humans is a major threat to billions of people in the world today. Yet many of us don’t appear to accept the science. This article explores why we need to study the ways that people react to issues like climate change and how we can help people understand the risks they pose to their everyday lives.
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Barr SW, Woodley E (2014).
Flooding and the River Barle Catchment. Exmoor National Park Authority, Exeter, University of Exeter.
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Flooding and the River Barle Catchment
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Hall CM, Amelung B, Cohen S, Eijgelaar E, Go ssling S, Higham J, Leemans R, Peeters P, Ram Y, Scott D, et al (2014). No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad.
Tourism ManagementAbstract:
No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad
Shani and Arad (2014) claimed that tourism scholars tend to endorse the most pessimistic assessments regarding climate change, and that anthropogenic climate change was a “fashionable“ and “highly controversial scientific topic“. This brief rejoinder provides the balance that is missing from such climate change denial and skepticism studies on climate change and tourism. Recent research provides substantial evidence that reports on anthropogenic climate change are accurate, and that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including from the tourism industry, play a significant role in climate change. Some positive net effects may be experienced by some destinations in the short-term, but in the long-term all elements of the tourism system will be impacted. The expansion of tourism emissions at a rate greater than efficiency gains means that it is increasingly urgent that the tourism sector acknowledge, accept and respond to climate change. Debate on tourism-related adaptation and mitigation measures is to be encouraged and welcomed. Climate change denial is not.
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Barr S (2014). Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?.
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography,
96(3), 231-243.
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Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?
Debates concerning the development of the green economy necessarily focus on "upstream" issues that underpin the re-structuring of national and regional economies through the lenses of financial, institutional and regulatory change. However, the growing interest in the cultural green economy requires a re-scaling of debates surrounding the links that occur in complex socio-technical systems, notably between individual consumers, social units and the architectures of the developing green economy. This necessitates a research and policy agenda that is attentive to both the complexities of such interactions (between structures, processes and practices) and the imperative to foster change in practices within wider society. This article explores the ways in which environmental social scientists have examined and evidenced these issues, arguing that two major barriers still exist for creating adequate understandings and opportunities for change. First, the overt focus on the individual consumer as a unit of measurement and political attention has stifled debate concerning the ways in which environmentally related social practices have developed in association with wider economic contexts. In this way, environmental social scientists have often failed to make the connections between individuals, practices and the economic system. Second, in adopting a largely individualistic perspective, environmental social scientists have tended to focus their attention on incrementalist and narrowly defined views of what ecological citizenship might look like and constitute in the green economy. The article therefore argues that environmental social scientists need to constructively engage in a new inter-disciplinary dialogue about the role, purpose and ethics of citizen participation in developing and sustaining the green economy in an age of climate change and potential resource scarcity.
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Shaw G, Barr S, Wooler J (2014). The Application of Social Marketing to Tourism. In McCabe S (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Marketing, London: Routledge, 54-65.
2013
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2013). A Smarter Choice? Exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmentally sustainable mobility. Environment and Planning C
Barr S, Guilbert S, Metcalfe A, Riley M, Robinson GM, Tudor TL (2013). Beyond recycling: an integrated approach for understanding municipal waste management.
Applied Geography,
39, 67-77.
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Beyond recycling: an integrated approach for understanding municipal waste management
Recent decades have witnessed a major increase in structured recycling services offered to households across the developed world, in large part providing a kerbside pick-up of materials for recycling in addition to waste destined for landfill sites. Yet despite these service improvements, local authorities still face major challenges in reducing the overall volume of materials collected and the appropriate treatment of an expanding range of materials, including food and garden wastes. Moving 'up' the waste hierarchy towards reduction, re-use and repair raises questions about the ways in which municipal authorities can effectively engage individuals to conceptualise and deal with household materials in ways that move beyond the simple disposal of things, to a re-consideration of 'waste' through new practices of (re)creating value via both habitual and externally-driven behaviours. Utilising an analysis of quantitative survey data from research undertaken in the Royal Borough of Kingston, London, this paper argues that new practices of (re)creating value are underlain by both individualistic and social characteristics, and through the use of a segmentation analysis, the paper presents an example of the ways in which ideas concerning the discrete 'social marketing' of pro-environmental behavioural change can be challenged through unveiling the complexity of waste-related practices. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
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Robinson GM, Guilbert S, Tudor T, Barr SW, Metcalfe A, Riley M (2013). Ethnicity, environmental behaviour and environmental justice: Initial findings from research in a London borough. In (Ed) Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment, 291-314.
Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2013). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate.
Water Resources Management,
27(4), 959-979.
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Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate
This paper considers aspects of environmental social science research in the UK and explores an obvious bias towards the development of instruments to manage demand as an adaptation to climate change, and consequently the predominance of interest in the customer from a demand-side perspective. In the case of water, this has resulted in an inappropriate mixing of individualist research methods designed to measure public perceptions of risk and water-based practices, with mass consumption data that cannot be specifically linked to the individual. This mixing has a tendency to reinforce a long-standing blame culture that drives interest in the development of behaviour change initiatives while the relatively unchallenged hydraulic mission to provide safe drinking water and sanitation progresses. With this in mind this paper reviews examples of water use research from California, Australia, and the UK and highlights the more effective routes to understanding water customers and developing behaviour change initiatives that utilise stages of change models and grounded techniques incorporating qualitative and quantitative data from individual sources. A secondary aim is to argue for re-framing the relations between various actors in a changing climate to allow the development of new policy approaches, learning, and openness, from industry, regulators, and customers, based on new theories from the field. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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2012
Metcalfe A, Riley M, Barr S, Tudor T, Robinson G, Guilbert S (2012). Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW,
60, 135-155.
Author URL.
Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK: exploring water-user perceptions. Urban Water Journal
Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2012). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Management, 1-21.
Barr SW, Devine-Wright P (2012). Resilient Communities: transforming sustainabilities. Local Environment, 17(5), 525-532.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2012). ‘Lead has become Carbon Dioxide'. Framing sustainable travel in the age of climate change. Local Environment, 17(4), 425-440.
2011
Tudor TL, Robisnon GM, Riley M, Guilbert S, Barr SW (2011). Challenges facing the sustainable consumption and waste management agendas:. perspectives on UK households. Local Environment, 16, 51-66.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2011). Citizen-consumers? Challenges for sustainable travel in an age of climate change. Town and Country Planning, 80, 399-402.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2011). Citizens, Consumers and Sustainability: (Re)Framing Environmental Practice in an Age of Climate Change. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1224-1233.
Barr S (2011). Climate Forums: virtual discourses on climate change and the sustainable lifestyle. Area, 43, 14-22.
Barr SW (2011). Environmentalism. In Mansvelt J (Ed) Encyclodepia of Green Consumerism, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 125-129.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2011). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. Applied Geography, 32, 798-809.
Prillwitz J, Barr S (2011). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. Journal of Transport Geography, 19(6), 1590-1600.
Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2011). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. Journal of Transport Geography, 19, 1590-1600.
Prillwitz J, Barr S (2011). Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour.
Journal of Transport Geography,
19(6), 1590-1600.
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Moving towards sustainability? Mobility styles, attitudes and individual travel behaviour
Future scenarios for the transport sector are increasingly confronted with the finite nature of fossil-based resources (petrol, natural gas) and an urgent need for reductions of negative transport-related effects (CO 2 and other exhaust emissions, noise, land consumption). In view of limited technical advances and efficiency improvements, along with growing traffic volumes, behavioural changes towards more sustainable travel futures have attained a crucial importance. This paper will discuss initial results from a 2-year project (funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC) which aims to develop the notion of sustainability-related 'mobility styles' as a context for applying targeted social marketing policies to specific population segments. Based on ten focus group discussions and a survey of more than 1500 participants in the South West of England, two segmentation approaches are used to identify gaps between different domains of individual travel behaviour and the varying role of attitudes for travel decisions. The results demonstrate the usefulness and limitations of existing segmentation approaches and underline the need for more complex and comprehensive mobility style frameworks as basis for measures aiming at behavioural change towards sustainable mobility. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
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Barr SW (2011). Recycling. In Mansvelt J (Ed) Encyclopedia of Green Consumerism, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 375-382.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Sustainable Lifestyles: sites, practices and policy. Environment and Planning A, 43, 3011-3029.
Barr S, Prillwitz J (2011). Sustainable Travel: mobilities, lifestyles and practice. In Newton P (Ed) Urban Consumption, CSIRO, 159-171.
Barr S (2011). The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality and Social Change.
URBAN STUDIES,
48(16), 3631-3633.
Author URL.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2011). The Policy and Practice of ‘Sustainable Lifestyles’. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 54, 1331-1350.
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1234-1244.
Barr S, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2011). ‘Helping People Make Better Choices’: exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmental sustainability. Applied Geography, 31, 712-720.
2010
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles T, Prillwitz J (2010). 'A holiday is a holiday': practicing sustainability, home and away. Journal of Transport Geography, 18, 474-481.
Barr S (2010). Book review of Environment and citizenship: integrating justice, responsibility, and civic engagement. PROG HUM GEOG, 34(4), 546-547.
Barr SW (2010). Municipal Solid Waste Management. In Warf B (Ed) Enclyclopedia of Geography, Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2010). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. EASST010 Conference. 31st Aug - 3rd Sep 2010.
Barr SW, Ward S, Memon FA, Butler D (2010). Transitioning SMEs to Sustainable Water Management Practices: Challenges and Opportunities. Sustainable Water Management 2010.
2009
Ward S, Butler D, Barr S, Memon FA (2009). A framework for supporting rainwater harvesting in the UK.
Water Sci Technol,
60(10), 2629-2636.
Abstract:
A framework for supporting rainwater harvesting in the UK.
Numerous policy vehicles have been introduced in the UK promoting the use of rainwater harvesting (RWH). However, an 'implementation deficit' exists where legislation limits action by failing to provide adequate support mechanisms. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to construct a framework to address the issue of overcoming this deficit. Evidence bases have identified six deficit categories, which confirm a lack of enabling of stakeholders. Outline recommendations, such as coordinated information provision and reconsideration of incentive schemes are made in relation to these categories to complete the framework for supporting RWH in the UK.
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Barr SW (2009). Encouraging Pro-environmental Behaviour: exploring a lifestyles approach. Sustainable Consumption: changing habits.
Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2009). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW (2009). Review of Davies, A. R. Geographies of Garbage Governance: interactions, interventions and outcomes. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008. Environment and Planning C, 27(5), 942-943.
Corbridge S, Barr S, Griffin L, Bailey I, Portman M, Betsill M, Pugh M (2009). Review: the Limits to Capital: the Geographies of Garbage Governance: Interventions, Interactions and Outcomesm, Governing a Common Sea: Environmental Policies in the Baltic Sea Region, Innovation in Environmental Policy? Integrating the Environment for Sustainability, Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, the Politics of Climate Change, Insecure Spaces: Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia. Environment and Planning. C, Government and Policy, 27(5), 940-949.
Barr SW, Prillwitz J, Shaw G (2009). Spaces of (un)sustainability: the ‘paradox’ of the citizen-consumer. RGS-IBG.
Barr S (2009). The geographies of garbage governance: interventions, interactions and outcomes. ENVIRON PLANN C, 27(5), 942-943.
Barr SW (2009). ‘Eco-hypocrisy!’ Contested notions of the ‘sustainable lifestyle’. Association of American Geographers.
Barr SW (2009). “Like Swampy and his mates”. Sustainable lifestyles and the behaviour change agenda’. University of Nottingham School of Geography seminar.
2008
Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles T, Prillwitz J (2008). 'A holiday is a holiday’: practicing sustainability, home and away. RGS-IBG.
Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2008). A novel conceptual framework for examining environmental behavior in large organizations - a case study of the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom.
ENVIRON BEHAV,
40(3), 426-450.
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A novel conceptual framework for examining environmental behavior in large organizations - a case study of the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom
This article is concerned with the development of a conceptual framework of the key antecedents that lead to sustainable environmental behavior amongst employees within a large organizational setting. A range of quantitative and qualitative methods was employed in the study to examine behavior. Using the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom as a case study, the research demonstrated that both organizational and individual/cognitive factors served as key predictors for sustainable waste behavior. However, these factors did not work in isolation but rather, within a dynamic, holistic, intrarelated, and interrelated conceptual framework to ultimately determine individual behavior. The results suggest the need to address both categories of variables when developing policies to achieve greater sustainability in the behavior of employees within large organizations.
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Barr S (2008). Book Review of Environmental management for sustainable development 2nd edn. AREA, 40(1), 142-143.
Barr SW, Coles T, Shaw G (2008). Changing Behaviours for a Changing Climate: a lifestyles approach. Claimte Change: dangerous rates of change.
Barr SW (2008). Changing consumption patterns. ESRC Seminar: Local economic development in an era of climate change and peak oil.
Barr SW, Blewitt J (2008). Developing Sustainability Leaders for the Future. all Our Futures.
Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2008). Do We Go Too Far? Connections Between Tourist Travel, Mobility Behaviour and (Sustainable) Lifestyles. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW (2008). Doing Your Bit? can we change our lifestyles to help the Planet?. Planet Eath Lecture Series.
Barr SW (2008). Environment and Society: sustainability, policy and the citizen. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2008). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: a social marketing approach. In Krishna SJ (Ed) Marketing for Social Change: perspectives and experiences, Hyderebad: Icfair University Press, 145-169.
Barr SW (2008). Sustainable Lifestyles: just for Christmas?. University of Plymouth School of Geography Seminar.
Barr SW (2008). Sustainable Lifestyles?. The contested notions of environmentally-responsible behaviour. Great Western Research Seminar Series.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2008). Understanding and promoting behaviour change using lifestyle groups. In Reddy S (Ed) Green Consumerism: approaches and country experiences, Hyderebad: Icfai University Press, 108-128.
2007
Barr S, Gilg AW (2007). A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour.
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography,
89 B(4), 361-379.
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A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour
Encouraging environmental action by citizens in developed nations has become a major priority for governments who are seeking to reach environmental targets by exhorting individuals to participate in a range of behaviours to ameliorate the negative impact of their lifestyles. Such activities conventionally include energy saving, water conservation, waste management and forms of 'green' consumption. Current policy discourses are focused around a linear model of behaviour, which assumes that an awareness of environmental problems and knowledge of how to tackle them will lead to individual ameliorative actions. This paper explores these assumptions by applying a previously developed conceptual framework (Barr et al. 2001) to a range of environmental actions, to show how a variety of different factors influence environmental action. Using data from a major (UK) Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research project in Devon, United Kingdom, data on environmental actions collected during the project are interrogated to uncover the relationships between environmental actions and how these are influenced by values, personal situations and attitudes. The research demonstrates that environmental action is structured around people's everyday lifestyles (rather than a compartmentalized notion of behaviour) and that these have radically different antecedents. © 2007 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
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Tudor T, Barr S, Gilg A (2007). A tale of two locational settings: is there a link between pro-environmental behaviour at work and at home?.
Local Environment,
12(4), 409-421.
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A tale of two locational settings: is there a link between pro-environmental behaviour at work and at home?
This paper examines the nature of the relationship between sustainable waste management behaviour between the 'home' and 'work' settings. A questionnaire survey of 566 employees of the Cornwall NHS (National Health Service) was used to examine the nature of the behaviour between the two settings and to understand the main factors influencing the behaviour. The results indicate that there is strong link in the behaviour of individuals between the two settings, with employees who practised recycling activities at home also being more likely to practise a similar behaviour at work. There was also some similarity in the level of sustainability of the behaviour between the two settings. These behaviours were strongly influenced by the underlying attitudes and beliefs of the staff towards the environment. The implications for policy-making to improve sustainable waste management behaviour amongst individuals in England and Wales are also discussed.
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Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). A tale of two settings: does pro-environmental behaviour at home influence sustainable environmental actions at work?. Local Environment, 4(12), 409-421.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2007). Environmentally responsible behaviour and attitudes to low cost airlines: a UK perspective. RGS-IBG.
Barr SW (2007). Factors influencing environmental attitudes and behaviors: a UK case study of household waste management. Environment and Behavior, 39(4), 435-473.
Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). Linking intended behaviour and actions: a case study of healthcare waste management in the Cornwall NHS.
RESOUR CONSERV RECY,
51(1), 1-23.
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Linking intended behaviour and actions: a case study of healthcare waste management in the Cornwall NHS
This paper examines the main factors which link intended behaviour and actions to sustainably manage waste from, within a large organisational setting in the UK. A quantitative study of 566 employees from the Cornwall NHS and waste bin analyses were employed to examine the difference between intended behaviour and actions. Regression analyses demonstrated that the key factors that linked intended behaviour to actions were the beliefs about the priority of waste management as an issue and the benefits of recycling, as well as whether staff were concerned with recycling. The results also indicate the usefulness of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as a framework for predicting actions. Recommendations for overcoming the gap between intended behaviour and actions are also suggested. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). Strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the UK.
Waste Management and Research,
25(6), 510-516.
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Strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the UK
This paper examines strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS). Using quantitative (questionnaires and waste bin analyses) and qualitative (ethnography and interviews) methodologies, the study examined the waste management practices of staff from the Cornwall NHS. It was found that employee participation in waste recycling at work was low due to a range of factors including NHS focus and policies, group norms, and individual attitudes and beliefs about sustainable waste management. Recommendations for improving the sustainability of NHS, employee waste management practices, with a specific focus on recycling are included in the paper. These recommendations include measures focused towards both the NHS organization and individual staff members. © ISWA 2007.
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Barr SW (2007). Sustainable Living Project: Final Report (Report 4) Analysis of Data from Residents & DCHA Employees. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.
2006
Barr SW (2006). Book review of Waste in Ecological Economics. Local Environment, 3(11), 347-348.
Barr SW (2006). Environmental Action in the Home: investigating the "value-action" gap. Geography, 91(1), 43-54.
Barr SW (2006). Exeter City Council Student Recycling Project Report. Exeter City Council.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: a social marketing approach. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.
Barr SW (2006). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: policy and practice in the UK. University of Portsmouth Geography Seminar.
Barr SW, Gilg A (2006). Sustainable Lifestyles: framing environmental action in and around the home. Geoforum, 37(6), 906-920.
Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 1 Behaviour and Attitude Change at Oak Meadow.
Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 2 Environmental knowledge, awareness and quality of life e at Oak Meadow. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.
Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 3 a comparison between Oak Meadow residents and a sample of Devon’s population. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Targeting Specific Lifestyle Groups. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Targeting Specific Lifestyle Groups: a social marketing approach. Influencing Behaviour Through Policy Conference.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Technical Report: Providing the supporting analysis, methodological approaches and emerging findings. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.
Barr SW, Shaw G (2006). Understanding and Promoting Behaviour Change Using Lifestyle Groups. can We Change a Rubbish Habit? Conference (international conference on the social context of waste management).
Barr S (2006). Waste in Ecological Economics.
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT,
11(3), 347-348.
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2005
Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Behavioural attitudes towards water saving: Evidence from a study of environmental actions. Ecological Economics, 57(3), 400-414.
Barr S (2005). Book Review of Garbage wars: the search for environmental justice in Chicago. ENVIRON PLANN A, 37(2), 379-380.
Barr SW (2005). Book review of Case Studies in Ecotourism. Tourism Geographies, 1(7), 113-115.
Barr S, Gilg AW (2005). Conceptualising and analysing household attitudes and actions to a growing environmental problem - Development and application of a framework to guide local waste policy.
APPL GEOGR,
25(3), 226-247.
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Conceptualising and analysing household attitudes and actions to a growing environmental problem - Development and application of a framework to guide local waste policy
Publication of the Government's Waste Strategy in June 2000 [Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR). (2000). Waste Strategy 2000. London: the Stationary Office] highlighted the importance of gaining public involvement in managing household waste in more sustainable ways. However, practically implementing waste policy at this micro-level requires a greater appreciation of the factors that influence individual behaviour patterns. This paper begins by outlining the concepts and variables involved in predicting individual waste management behaviour and a conceptual framework is illustrated, based on the Fishbein and Ajzen's Theory of Reasoned Action [Fishbein, M. and Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief attitude, intention and behavior: an introduction to theory and research. Addison-Wesley: Reading, MA] for organising the large number of motivations and barriers involved in promoting individual waste management behaviour. The utilisation of the framework in an applied context is demonstrated with a case study of waste management in Exeter, Devon, where a large number of practical policy recommendations were derived from an analysis of the determining factors of waste management behaviour. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2005). Defining the multi-dimensional aspects of household waste management: a study of reported behaviour in Devon. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 45(2), 172-192.
Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Encouraging Environmental Action by Exhortation: Evidence from a case study in Devon. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 48(4), 593-618.
Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Green consumption or sustainable lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer. Futures, 37(6), 481-504.
Barr SW (2005). Household waste and environmental lifestyles in Devon. RGS-IBG.
Barr S, Church A (2005). Literature Reviews. Tourism Geographies, 7(1), 113-117.
Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2005). The Role of Sustainability within service delivery in the National Health Service in Cornwall (UK). International Solid Waste Management Association Conference.
Barr SW (2005). The household energy gap: examining the links between attitudes and behaviours in energy saving in the home. Institute for Sustainable Energy Seminar.
Barr S, Gilg, A.W. Ford, N. (2005). ‘The Household Energy Gap: examining the divide between habitual and purchase-related conservation behaviours’. Energy Policy, 33(11), 1425-1444.
2004
Barr SW (2004). Are we all environmentalists now? Rhetoric and reality in environmental action. Geoforum, 35(2), 231-249.
Barr SW, Gilg AW (2004). Global Action Plan: rural environmentalism in Devon. In Lobley M (Ed) Annual Review: Centre for Rural Research.
Barr SW (2004). Green Today, Gone Tomorrow: the new environmentalism. University of Plymouth Geograplhy Seminar paper.
Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr SW (2004). Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis. London, David Fulton.
Barr S (2004). What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice, sustainable household waste management in the UK.
SUSTAIN DEV,
12(1), 32-44.
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What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice, sustainable household waste management in the UK
Sustainable waste management is a core issue facing local and national governments. It is widely acknowledged that although producers of goods and materials have a role to play in reducing waste, the general public, in the way that we consume and utilize products, have a key role in delivering sustainable waste management. This paper supports this assertion with data from a study of waste management attitudes and reported behaviours in southwest England. The paper presents a conceptual framework for examining attitudes and behaviours towards waste management, incorporating environmental values, situational factors and psychological variables. Using this framework, the paper demonstrates the range of influences acting on attitudes and actions towards sustainable waste management practices, focusing especially on recycling behaviour. The paper argues that the framework could provide a useful tool for examining the variety of factors influencing a range of public actions relevant to sustainable development. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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2003
Barr S (2003). 7 Waste minimisation strategies. In (Ed) Local Environmental Sustainability, 138-168.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Attitudes towards recycling household waste in Exeter, Devon: quantitative and qualitative approaches. Local Environment, 8(4), 407-421.
Barr SW (2003). Book review of Exploring Sustainable Consumption. Journal of Rural Studies, 2(19), 253-254.
Barr SW (2003). Collaborative working and environmental behaviour research. Environmental Psychology in the UK.
Barr SW (2003). Conceptualising environmental action: a geographical approach. Seminar, Institute forSustainable Technology.
Barr SW, Gilg AW (2003). Environmentalism in rural Devon. In Lobley M (Ed) Annual Review: Centre for Rural Research.
Barr S (2003). Exploring sustainable consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES,
19(2), 253-254.
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Barr SW (2003). Green consumerism. Centre for Rural Research Policy Symposium.
Barr SW (2003). Green consumption: a social-psychological perspective. Exeter, University of Exeter.
Barr SW, Gilg AW (2003). New horizons in environmental behaviour research in geography. RGS-BG.
Barr, S. (2003). Strategies for Sustainability: citizens and responsible environmental behaviour. Area, 35(3), 227-240.
Barr SW (2003). Sustainable lifestyles: environmental action in and around the home. International Sustainable Development Research Conference.
Barr SW (2003). The Big Clean Up: Public Rhetoric and Reality. Town and Coutnry Planning, 71(10), 280-281.
Barr SW (2003). Waste minimisation strategies. In Theobald K, Buckingham-Hatfield, S (Eds.) Local Environmental Sustainability: approaches and solutions, Cambridge: Woodhead, 138-168.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 1: environmentalism in Britain today. Town and Country Planning, 72(6), 185-186.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 2: how do people value the environment. Town and Country Planning, 72(7), 216-217.
Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 3: encouraging environmental action. Town and Country Planning, 72(7), 218-220.
2002
Barr SW (2002). Environmental behaviour research in geography: integrating research agendas. Environmental Psychology in the UK.
Barr SW (2002). Household Waste in Social Perspective., Ashgate.
2001
Barr SW, Ford N, Gilg AW (2001). A conceptual framework for understanding and analysing attitudes towards household waste management. Environment and Planning A, 33(11), 2025-2048.
Barr SW (2001). Book review of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development. Local Environment, 3(6), 375-376.
Barr SW (2001). Book review of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development. Local Environment, 3(6), 375-376.
Barr S, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2001). Differences between household waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported behaviours, intentions and explanatory variables.
Environmental and Waste Management,
4(2), 69-82.
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Differences between household waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported behaviours, intentions and explanatory variables
Research into individual waste management has focused primarily on recycling behaviour. It is argued here that there also needs to be a focus on reuse and reduction of waste. The diversity of waste behaviour and its antecedents is therefore emphasised. The declared reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour of 673 households in Exeter, Devon is detailed. Differences between behaviours are examined. This is then discussed in the context of the intentions stated by respondents towards these three activities. Comparison are made. The data are then subjected to factor analyses and regression procedures rto demonstrate the diversity of variables that explain each behaviour.
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Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2001). Differences between reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported waste management behaviour. Journal of Environmental and Waste Management, 4(2), 69-82.
Barr SW (2001). Factors influencing household attitudes and behaviours towards waste management in Exeter, Devon. Environmental Design Research Association Conference.
