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Professor Stewart Barr

Professor of Geography

3832

Amory 364c

Amory Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ , UK

Office hours:

Office hours for Term 2:

Important: office hours this year are being operated to the following weekly pattern: one on campus, one online. Please e-mail me if you'd like to attend either an office hour on campus or online and I will give you a specific time slot. There will be no drop-in sessions to avoid queuing.

Online office hour: Mondays 16:00-17:00

On campus office hour (Amory C364c): Thursdays: 11:30-12:30

Overview

Stewart Barr graduated from the University of Exeter’s Geography Department in 1998 and continued his studies at Exeter undertaking a PhD exploring household waste practices. Building on this research, he worked for two years in the Department as a post-doctoral researcher on an ESRC-funded project entitled ‘Environmental Action in and Around the Home’. He became a Lecturer in Geography in 2003, Senior Lecturer in 2008, Associate Professor in 2012 and is now Professor of Geography. Within the Department Stewart undertakes research in the Environment and Sustainability and Spatial Responsibilities Research Groups and he teaches modules at all levels of undergraduate study.

Broad Research Specialisms:

Geographies of sustainable development: sustainable practices; behaviour change theory, policy and practice; community resilience to environmental change; sustainable travel, tourism and mobilities.

Qualifications

BA (University of Exeter)
PhD (University of Exeter)

Research group links

Research

Research interests

Stewart’s research focuses on the ways in which publics engage with contemporary environmental dilemmas such as climate change and ‘Peak Oil’. In so doing, his research speaks to a range of inter-disciplinary audiences through publication in Geography and Environmental Social Science journals and the authorship of research monographs. In particular, his research aims to advance new agendas in both theoretical and applied contexts, with a recent focus on impact generation activities through business engagement. There are three broad strands to Stewart’s research:

First, Stewart’s research aims to provide a contextually rich and spatially situated understanding of environmental practices and how these have emerged and continue to evolve in an age of climate change and other major global environmental dilemmas like ‘Peak Oil’. In so doing, Stewart’s research calls for inter-disciplinary understandings of how social practices are both evolving in the light of ‘mega-issues’ like climate change and the ways in which consumption-heavy lifestyles may be brought into conflict with calls to reduce consumption as a way of averting catastrophic climate change. This is framed through explorations of various practices, including those related to energy use, water, waste and most recently mobilities.

Second, Stewart’s research also focuses on building critiques of existing Neo-liberal approaches to so-called ‘behavioural change’ as an individualistic mechanism for dealing with challenges such as climate change. This is undertaken within the context of research on ‘citizen-consumers’, who have been crafted as the primary agents for dealing with environmental dilemmas through the use of market mechanisms. Accordingly, his research argues for a re-assessment of such individualistic approaches, calling for a renewed focus on changing the contexts for civil action on environmental issues.

Third, Stewart’s research has a pragmatic and impact-generation strand which builds on these broad policy critiques through focusing on the efficacy of current market mechanisms for pro-environmental behavioural change in the UK (e.g. the use of Nudge Theory and Social Marketing). This research is designed to apply the ideas outlined in the previous two strands as a way of helping organisations in the public and private sectors to design and implement successful behavioural change campaigns that focus on the contexts and underlying practices for collective action through the use of social media.

Research projects

Unpacking the Household: understanding the dynamics of domestic recycling. Coca Cola Enterprises (with G. Shaw)

Dr. Stewart Barr, with Dr. Annabelle Boulay and Dr. Alan Metcalfe

This is a research project funded by Coca Cola Enterprises (value: £146,000) and aims to study household dynamics as they relate to practices of recycling and wasting of food and drinks packaging. Attention in the project is being paid to the attitudes and practices of one particular group, ‘Green Casuals’, within two national contexts, the UK and France. The focus is not just on the point at which packaging is disposed of to the residual or recycling bin, but also on the ways in which such packaging moves through the household from the point of purchase to final disposal. Understanding household dynamics thus offers an opportunity to explore with households their waste-related practices and the interaction with the wider waste regime. Through this, policy suggestions will be developed to help increase recycling amongst members of this group.

The objectives are:

To plot the ways in which materials (including PET, cans and packaging) enter and move through ‘Green Casual’ households and therefore relate to the everyday lives of participants in the research;
To unpack the processes of negotiation and ‘decision making’ within households in regard to recycling and waste practices.

The research will be based on four sets of in-depth interviews with household members. These interviews will be supported by the use of participant waste diaries, object-elicitation, and photography. In addition the final interview will be an ethnographic interview.

Waste Diaries: Participants will be asked to complete a diary by listing and/or narrating the materials disposed of, the decisions, and household members who were involved. This will be explored in the interviews where fuller accounts can be drawn out.

Object Elicitation: Drawing on objects found in the domestic sphere to give specificity to interviews, to enable participants to tell specific narratives and explain how specific events occurred and so on.

Ethnographic Interviews: An interview undertaken during a particular event so that the interviewee can explain exactly what is happening, reflect on decisions, relate to previous and typical events, and the interviewer can pick up on barely noticed or reflected on actions.

Further information can be found here: www.cokecce.com/corporate-responsibility-sustainability/recycle-for-the-future.

Grants/Funding:

Recent selected awards:

November 2012
£146,000
Unpacking the Household: understanding the dynamics of domestic recycling.
Coca Cola Enterprises (with G. Shaw)

July 2011
£52,500
Sustainable and Integrated Urban Water Management System (SANITAS) (with D Butler et al.)
EU Marie-Curie ITN

July 2011
£79,123.84
Social Marketing for Sustainability: developing a community of practice for co-creating behavioural change campaigns.
ESRC Grant (with G. Shaw and A. Gilg)

February 2011
£3000
Tourism, Travel and Social Marketing: a scoping study.
ESRC Business Voucher (with G. Shaw)

November 2010
£210,151
The Role of Values in Responding to Major Social Change: Christian Churches and the Transition Town Movement.
AHRC Grant (with T. Gorringe)

April 2009
£200,016
Lifestyles and life-courses: the social context of waste management.
Leverhulme Trust (With G. Robinson, et al.)

Publications

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Key publications

Barr S (2014). Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 96(3), 231-243. Abstract. Full text.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2013). A Smarter Choice? Exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmentally sustainable mobility. Environment and Planning C

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 SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Sustainable Lifestyles: sites, practices and policy. Environment and Planning A, 43, 3011-3029. Full text.

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. Full text.

Publications by category

Books

Barr SW, Shaw G, Ryley T, Prillwitz J (2018). Geographies of Transport and Mobility: prospects and challenges in an age of climate change. Abingdon, White Horse Press. Abstract.

Barr S, Shaw G, Prillwitz J, Ryley T (2017). Geographies of Transport and Mobility.

Barr S (2017). Household waste in social perspective: Values, attitudes, situation and behaviour. Abstract.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2016). Community Resilience: Learning to live with risk and environmental change. London, Springer. Abstract.

Bridge G, Barr SW, Bousorovski S, Bradshaw M, Brown E, Bulkeley H, Walker G (2016). Energy and Society: a critical perspective., Taylor and Francis. Abstract.

Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr S (2013). Statistical techniques in geographical analysis, Third edition. Abstract.

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 Full text.

Barr SW, Pollard J (In Press). Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’. Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research Abstract. Full text.

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 Full text.

Barr SW (In Press). Personal Mobility and Climate Change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change Full text.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (In Press). Shared Space: negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum

Shared mobility spaces have become increasingly popular internationally as attempts to increase the uptake of active travel modes (walking, cycling and running) have turned pavements, shopping streets and public spaces into multi-mode mobility spaces. From a sustainability perspective, policy makers in the UK have argued that shared spaces afford greater opportunities for cycling off-road in areas with busy traffic, whilst in public spaces they provide greater accessibility and connectivity to a wider range of users. Yet there has been little conceptual critique and empirical research on the impacts of how individuals and groups negotiate what are new forms of public space in the UK. Accordingly, in this paper we use insights from the new mobilities paradigm and social practice theories to analyse data gathered from qualitative research with different travel mode users in the city of Exeter (South-west England) to demonstrate the complexity of shared spaces, the tensions they produce and the challenges they may pose for promoting sustainable mobility. First, we explore the practices that unfold within shared spaces and demonstrate how researchers need to appreciate the social complexity of negotiating new and conflictual sites of practice. Second, we examine how a fragmented approach to the design of shared spaces may compromise the development of sustainable mobility practices through representing a partial and dysfunctional approach towards sharing space in cities. Third, we demonstrate the problematics of deploying shared spaces as short-term and politically expedient devices for delivering individually-focused behavioural goals instead of radical alternatives that embed sustainable mobility infrastructure into urban fabrics. We conclude by suggesting that to realise the benefits of collectively sharing mobility space in the UK requires long-term changes in urban infrastructure that can embed practices, and a shift away from the political dominance of the private vehicle as the axis around which urban development pivots.

Abstract. Full text.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (In Press). Smart Cities and Behavioural Change: (un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum Full text.

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). Author URL.

Auster RE, Barr S, Brazier R (2020). Alternative perspectives of the angling community on Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction in the River Otter Beaver Trial. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(7), 1252-1270. Full text.

Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Improving engagement in managing reintroduction conflicts: learning from beaver reintroduction. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-22. Full text.

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. Full text.

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. Abstract. Full text.

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. Abstract. Full text.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2019). Enabling Communities for a changing climate: re-configuring spaces of hazard governance. Geoforum, 100, 116-127. Full text.

Barr S (2017). Knowledge, expertise and engagement. Environmental Values, 26(2), 125-130.

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. Abstract.

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. Abstract.

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 Management Abstract.

Barr S (2014). Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 96(3), 231-243. Abstract. Full text.

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. Abstract.

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. Abstract.

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.

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 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? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. Journal of Transport Geography, 19(6), 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. Abstract.

Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Sustainable Lifestyles: sites, practices and policy. Environment and Planning A, 43, 3011-3029. Full text.

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. Full text.

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. Full text.

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. Abstract. Author URL. Full text.

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 Politics and Space, 27(5), 940-949.

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. Abstract.

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. Abstract.

Barr SW, Gilg A (2007). A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour. Geografiska Annaler B, 89(4), 361-379.

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. Abstract.

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. Abstract.

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. Abstract.

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. Author URL.

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. Abstract.

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, 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. Abstract.

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). 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 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. Abstract.

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 SW, Prillwitz J (In Press). Negotiating Tourist Identities: mobilities in an age of climate change. In Duncan T, Cohen S (Eds.) Lifestyle Mobilities, Ashgate.

Barr S (2017). Environment and Waste. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 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. Abstract.

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. Abstract. Full text.

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. Abstract.

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. Full text.

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. Abstract.

Barr SW, Wright JD (2015). Sustainable Lifestyles. In (Ed) International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences 2E, London: Elsevier. Abstract.

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.

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. Abstract.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Flooding and the River Barle Catchment. Exmoor National Park Authority, Exeter, University of Exeter. Abstract.

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

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.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J (In Press). Negotiating Tourist Identities: mobilities in an age of climate change. In Duncan T, Cohen S (Eds.) Lifestyle Mobilities, Ashgate.

Barr SW (In Press). Personal Mobility and Climate Change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change Full text.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (In Press). Shared Space: negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum

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Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (In Press). Smart Cities and Behavioural Change: (un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum Full text.

In Prep

Coles TE, Barr SW (In Prep). West Somerset Housing Needs Survey 2003. West Somerset District Council, 2004.

2022

2020

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?.

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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Barr SW, Woodley E (2019). Enabling Communities for a changing climate: re-configuring spaces of hazard governance. Geoforum, 100, 116-127. Full text.

Warren S (2019). 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. Abingdon, White Horse Press. Abstract.

2017

Barr S (2017). Environment and Waste. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, 1-9.

Barr S, Shaw G, Prillwitz J, Ryley T (2017). Geographies of Transport and Mobility.

Barr S (2017). Household waste in social perspective: Values, attitudes, situation and behaviour. Abstract.

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

Barr SW, Woodley E (2016). Community Resilience: Learning to live with risk and environmental change. London, Springer. Abstract.

Bridge G, Barr SW, Bousorovski S, Bradshaw M, Brown E, Bulkeley H, Walker G (2016). Energy and Society: a critical perspective., Taylor and Francis. Abstract.

2015

Barr SW (2015). Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 7, 115-115.

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.

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. Abstract.

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. Abstract.

Barr SW, Wright JD (2015). Sustainable Lifestyles. In (Ed) International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences 2E, London: Elsevier. Abstract.

2014

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. Abstract.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Flooding and the River Barle Catchment. Exmoor National Park Authority, Exeter, University of Exeter. Abstract.

Barr S (2014). Practicing the cultural green economy: Where now for environmental social science?. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 96(3), 231-243. Abstract. Full text.

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

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. Abstract.

Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr S (2013). Statistical techniques in geographical analysis, Third edition. Abstract.

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.

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