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.
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Geographies of Transport and Mobility: prospects and challenges in an age of climate change
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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:
Household waste in social perspective: Values, attitudes, situation and behaviour
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Barr SW, Woodley E (2016).
Community Resilience: Learning to live with risk and environmental change. London, Springer.
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Community Resilience: Learning to live with risk and environmental change
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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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Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr S (2013).
Statistical techniques in geographical analysis, Third edition.Abstract:
Statistical techniques in geographical analysis, Third edition
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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 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 researchAbstract:
Geographies of Transition:
Narrating environmental
activism in an age of climate
change and ‘Peak Oil’
The growth of community-based Transition Town initiatives in countries like the UK, USA and Canada is popularly perceived to represent a broad, socially inclusive and grounded approach to tackling environmental problems in place-based communities. In focusing on resilience as a core theme, so-called eco-localisation initiatives attempt to adopt consensus based approaches to decision making and to highlight the need for an ‘inner transition’ of the self that encourages closer connections between individuals and nature. In this way, Transition has been framed as a new form of social and environmental movement that is re-casting community and political relations for a low carbon and post ‘Peak oil’ future. Yet despite these emergent philosophies of
Transition and the considerable scholarship being generated on the role
and success of such initiatives, there is an urgent need to situate and analyse Transition within broader understandings of environmental activism. Using data from a two year research project on
‘Values in Transition’, this paper argues that the praxis and spatial complexity of Transition can be understood more deeply through a narrative lens. In mobilising critical scholarship on environmental activism, the paper calls for a ‘Transition Geographies’ that views
eco-localisation as a dynamic and complex coalescence of competing narratives that sit between traditional forms of environmental activism and directive initiatives for individual behaviour change. As such, the paper highlights the ways in which this new form of environmental activism is shaping praxis across space, and the implications this has for those advocating eco-localisation as a strategy for tackling climate change and resource scarcity.
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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 S (In Press). Negotiating Sustainabilities in Applied Geography: treading an uneven path. Space and Polity
Barr SW (In Press). Personal Mobility and Climate Change.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change Full text.
Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gaterslaben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (In Press). Placing people at the heart of climate action.
PLOS Climate Full text.
Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (In Press). Shared Space: negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility.
GeoforumAbstract:
Shared Space: negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility
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.
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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.
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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
Sustainability science recognises the need to fully incorporate cultural and emotional dimensions of environmental change to understand how societies deal with and shape anticipated transformations, unforeseen risks and increasing uncertainties. The relationship between empathy and sustainability represents a key advance in understanding underpinning human-environment relations. We assert that lack of empathy for nature and for others limits motivations to conserve the environment and enhance sustainability. Critically, the relationship between empathy and sustainability is mediated by place and identity that constrain and shape empathy's role in pro-environmental sustainability behaviour. We review emerging evidence across disciplines and suggest a new model exploring interactions between place, identity and empathy for sustainability. There are emerging innovative methodological approaches to observe, measure and potentially stimulate empathy for sustainability.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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, Gilg A (2007). A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour. Geografiska Annaler B, 89(4), 361-379.
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, 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.
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.
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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 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:
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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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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 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 researchAbstract:
Geographies of Transition:
Narrating environmental
activism in an age of climate
change and ‘Peak Oil’
The growth of community-based Transition Town initiatives in countries like the UK, USA and Canada is popularly perceived to represent a broad, socially inclusive and grounded approach to tackling environmental problems in place-based communities. In focusing on resilience as a core theme, so-called eco-localisation initiatives attempt to adopt consensus based approaches to decision making and to highlight the need for an ‘inner transition’ of the self that encourages closer connections between individuals and nature. In this way, Transition has been framed as a new form of social and environmental movement that is re-casting community and political relations for a low carbon and post ‘Peak oil’ future. Yet despite these emergent philosophies of
Transition and the considerable scholarship being generated on the role
and success of such initiatives, there is an urgent need to situate and analyse Transition within broader understandings of environmental activism. Using data from a two year research project on
‘Values in Transition’, this paper argues that the praxis and spatial complexity of Transition can be understood more deeply through a narrative lens. In mobilising critical scholarship on environmental activism, the paper calls for a ‘Transition Geographies’ that views
eco-localisation as a dynamic and complex coalescence of competing narratives that sit between traditional forms of environmental activism and directive initiatives for individual behaviour change. As such, the paper highlights the ways in which this new form of environmental activism is shaping praxis across space, and the implications this has for those advocating eco-localisation as a strategy for tackling climate change and resource scarcity.
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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 Full text.
Barr S (In Press). Negotiating Sustainabilities in Applied Geography: treading an uneven path. Space and Polity
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.
Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gaterslaben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (In Press). Placing people at the heart of climate action.
PLOS Climate Full text.
Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (In Press). Shared Space: negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility.
GeoforumAbstract:
Shared Space: negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility
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.
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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.
In Prep
Coles TE, Barr SW (In Prep). West Somerset Housing Needs Survey 2003. West Somerset District Council, 2004.
2022
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 RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities.
Journal of Flood Risk Management,
15(2).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
Sustainability science recognises the need to fully incorporate cultural and emotional dimensions of environmental change to understand how societies deal with and shape anticipated transformations, unforeseen risks and increasing uncertainties. The relationship between empathy and sustainability represents a key advance in understanding underpinning human-environment relations. We assert that lack of empathy for nature and for others limits motivations to conserve the environment and enhance sustainability. Critically, the relationship between empathy and sustainability is mediated by place and identity that constrain and shape empathy's role in pro-environmental sustainability behaviour. We review emerging evidence across disciplines and suggest a new model exploring interactions between place, identity and empathy for sustainability. There are emerging innovative methodological approaches to observe, measure and potentially stimulate empathy for sustainability.
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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.
Abstract:
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.
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Geographies of Transport and Mobility: prospects and challenges in an age of climate change
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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:
Household waste in social perspective: Values, attitudes, situation and behaviour
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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.
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Community Resilience: Learning to live with risk and environmental change
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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.
Abstract:
Environment and Waste
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:
Knowledge co-production and behavioural change: collaborative approaches for promoting low-carbon mobility
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
Abstract:
Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS
Abstract.
Barr SW, Wright JD (2015). Sustainable Lifestyles. In (Ed)
International Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences 2E, London: Elsevier.
Abstract:
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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Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr S (2013).
Statistical techniques in geographical analysis, Third edition.Abstract:
Statistical techniques in geographical analysis, Third edition
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Politics and Space, 27(5), 940-949.
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.
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 SW, Gilg A (2007). A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour. Geografiska Annaler B, 89(4), 361-379.
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.
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 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 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:
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.
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.
Barr SW (2001). Factors influencing household attitudes and behaviours towards waste management in Exeter, Devon. Environmental Design Research Association Conference.