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Professor Stewart Barr

Professor of Geography

3832

Amory 364c

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

Office hours:

Office hours for Term 1 of the 2022-23 academic year:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-12:30

Office hours must be booked in advance. Please e-mail Stewart to arrange a time slot.

Overview

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

Broad Research Specialisms:

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

Qualifications

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

Research group links

Research

Research interests

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

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

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

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

Research projects

Stewart is principlal Investigator on the ESRC-funded Education at a Time of Emergency project, which is an Impact Accelerator Account grant exploring ways to enable education practitoners to use academic research on behavioural change. The project is wqorking with education practitioers across South West England and has involved mentoring and the development of a behaviour change toolkit.

Stewart is also principal investigator for a project funded by the Promoting Adaptation to Changing Coasts programme, which is evaluating the colnsultation processes for the Lower Otter & Saâne Valley Restoration Projects. Using document analysis, interviews and community workshops, the project is examining the ways in which working with communities afftected by climate change impacts can be undertaken effectively.

Stewart is co-investigator for the five-year ESRC-funded Advancing Cpacity for Climate and Environmental Social Science (ACCESS) project, ACCESS aims to provide leadership on the social science contribution to tackling and solving a range of environmental problems. ACCESS will provide insights to find fresh thinking and new solutions to support the transition to a sustainable and biodiverse environment and a net zero society.

Research grants

2022 ESRC
ACCESS aims to provide leadership on the social science contribution to tackling and solving a range of environmental problems. ACCESS will provide insights to find fresh thinking and new solutions to support the transition to a sustainable and biodiverse environment and a net zero society.
2021 Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust
This project evaluates the consultation processes undertaken with publics and other stakeholders as part of the Lower Otter and Saane Valley Restoration Projects, and contributes to the Promoting Adaptation to Changing Coasts programme.
2020 ESRC IAA Project
This ESRC project aims to empower Environmental Education professionals at a time of heightened environmental concern and crisis. We recognise that practitioners in the sector are looking to update their approaches and methodologies while seeking to encourage engaged citizenship and pro-environmental behaviour. Through a programme of research-led workshops and mentoring, we will work with organisations in the South West of England to develop a toolkit for environmental education practitioners based on the social science of behaviour change.

Publications

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Key publications

Barr S, Shaw G (2022). 14 “Getting the summer you deserve” locking-in flying to the tourist experience. In (Ed) Low-Cost Aviation, 213-231.

Woodley E, Barr S, Stott P, Thomet P, Flint S, Lovell F, O'Malley E, Plews D, Rapley C, Robbins C, et al (2022). <em>Climate Stories</em>: Enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication. , 2022, 1-47.

Woodley E, Barr S, Stott P, Thomet P, Flint S, Lovell F, O'Malley E, Plews D, Rapley C, Robbins C, et al (2022). Climate Stories: enabling and sustaining arts interventions in climate science communication. Geoscience Communication, 5(4), 339-354.

Abstract. The climate science community faces a major challenge with respect to communicating the
risks associated with climate change within a heavily politicised landscape that is
characterised by varying degrees of denial, scepticism, distrust in
scientific enterprise, and an increased prevalence of misinformation (“fake
news”). This issue is particularly significant given the reliance on
conventional “deficit” communication approaches, which are based on the
assumption that scientific information provision will necessarily lead to
desired behavioural changes. Indeed, the constrained orthodoxy of scientific practices in seeking to maintain strict objectivity and political separation imposes very tangible limits on the potential effectiveness of climate
scientists for communicating risk in many contemporary settings. To address
these challenges, this paper uses insights from a collaboration between UK
climate scientists and artist researchers to argue for a more creative and
emotionally attentive approach to climate science engagement and advocacy.
In so doing, the paper highlights innovative ways in which climate change
communication can be reimagined through different art forms to enable
complex concepts to become knowable. We suggest that in learning to express
their work through forms of art, including print-making, theatre and
performance, song-writing, and creative writing, researchers experienced not
only a sense of liberation from the rigid communicative framework operating
in their familiar scientific environment but also a growing self-confidence in their ability and willingness to engage in new ways of expressing their work. As such, we argue that scientific institutions and funding bodies should recognise the potential value of climate scientists engaging in advocacy through art–science collaborations and that these personal investments and contributions to science engagement by individuals should be rewarded and valued alongside conventional scientific outputs.
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Abstract.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum, 127, 283-292.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum, 125, 140-149.

Barr S (2018). Personal mobility and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 9(5).

Publications by category

Books

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

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

Barr SW (2008). Environment and Society: sustainability, policy and the citizen. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Wheeler D, Shaw G, Barr SW (2004). Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis. London, David Fulton.

Barr SW (2002). Household Waste in Social Perspective., Ashgate.

Journal articles

Williamson D, Dawkins L, Barr S, Lampkin S (In Press). "What drives commuter behaviour?": a Bayesian clustering approach for understanding opposing behaviours in social surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A

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

Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Beavers and flood alleviation: Human perspectives from downstream communities. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15(2).

Abstract.

Barr S (2022). Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography: treading an uneven path. Space and Polity, 1-7.

Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gatersleben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (2022). Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate, 1(5).

Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2022). Renewed coexistence: learning from steering group stakeholders on a beaver reintroduction project in England. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH, 68(1). Author URL.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2022). ‘I feel the weather and you just know’. Narrating the dynamics of commuter mobility choices. Journal of Transport Geography, 103

Barr S (2021). An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, 27(4), 1029-1030. Author URL.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum, 127, 283-292.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum, 125, 140-149.

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

Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Improving engagement in managing reintroduction conflicts: learning from beaver reintroduction. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(10), 1713-1734.

Auster RE, Barr SW, Brazier RE (2020). Wildlife tourism in reintroduction projects: Exploring social and economic benefits of beaver in local settings. Journal for Nature Conservation, 58, 125920-125920.

Bryan K, Ward S, Barr S, Butler D (2019). Coping with Drought: Perceptions, Intentions and Decision-Stages of South West England Households. Water Resources Management, 33(3), 1185-1202. Abstract.

Brown K, Adger WN, Devine-Wright P, Anderies JM, Barr S, Bousquet F, Butler C, Evans L, Marshall N, Quinn T, et al (2019). Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability. Global Environmental Change, 56, 11-17.

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

Barr S (2018). Personal mobility and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 9(5).

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

Barr S, Pollard J (2016). Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’. Environment and Planning a Economy and Space, 49(1), 47-64.

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

Hall CM, Amelung B, Cohen S, Eijgelaar E, Gössling S, Higham J, Leemans R, Peeters P, Ram Y, Scott D, et al (2015). Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research. Tourism Management, 47, 352-356. Abstract.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Are we resilient enough?. Exe Press, 35, 7-8.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Climate Change: communicating the risks. Geography Review, 28(1), 34-37. Abstract.

Hall CM, Amelung B, Cohen S, Eijgelaar E, Go ssling S, Higham J, Leemans R, Peeters P, Ram Y, Scott D, et al (2014). No time for smokescreen skepticism: a rejoinder to Shani and Arad. Tourism Management Abstract.

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

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

Barr S, Guilbert S, Metcalfe A, Riley M, Robinson GM, Tudor TL (2013). Beyond recycling: an integrated approach for understanding municipal waste management. Applied Geography, 39, 67-77. Abstract.

Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2013). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Management, 27(4), 959-979. Abstract.

Metcalfe A, Riley M, Barr S, Tudor T, Robinson G, Guilbert S (2012). Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 60, 135-155. Author URL.

Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK: exploring water-user perceptions. Urban Water Journal

Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2012). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Management, 1-21.

Barr SW, Devine-Wright P (2012). Resilient Communities: transforming sustainabilities. Local Environment, 17(5), 525-532.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2012). ‘Lead has become Carbon Dioxide'. Framing sustainable travel in the age of climate change. Local Environment, 17(4), 425-440.

Tudor TL, Robisnon GM, Riley M, Guilbert S, Barr SW (2011). Challenges facing the sustainable consumption and waste management agendas:. perspectives on UK households. Local Environment, 16, 51-66.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2011). Citizen-consumers? Challenges for sustainable travel in an age of climate change. Town and Country Planning, 80, 399-402.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2011). Citizens, Consumers and Sustainability: (Re)Framing Environmental Practice in an Age of Climate Change. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1224-1233.

Barr S (2011). Climate Forums: virtual discourses on climate change and the sustainable lifestyle. Area, 43, 14-22.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2011). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. Applied Geography, 32, 798-809.

Prillwitz J, Barr 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. Abstract.

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

Barr S (2011). The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality and Social Change. URBAN STUDIES, 48(16), 3631-3633. Author URL.

Barr SW, Shaw G (2011). The Policy and Practice of ‘Sustainable Lifestyles’. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 54, 1331-1350.

Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles TE (2011). Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1234-1244.

Barr S, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2011). ‘Helping People Make Better Choices’: exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmental sustainability. Applied Geography, 31, 712-720.

Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles T, Prillwitz J (2010). 'A holiday is a holiday': practicing sustainability, home and away. Journal of Transport Geography, 18, 474-481.

Barr S (2010). Book review of Environment and citizenship: integrating justice, responsibility, and civic engagement. PROG HUM GEOG, 34(4), 546-547.

Ward S, Butler D, Barr S, Memon FA (2009). A framework for supporting rainwater harvesting in the UK. Water Sci Technol, 60(10), 2629-2636. Abstract. Author URL.

Barr SW (2009). Review of Davies, A. R. Geographies of Garbage Governance: interactions, interventions and outcomes. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008. Environment and Planning C, 27(5), 942-943.

Corbridge S, Barr S, Griffin L, Bailey I, Portman M, Betsill M, Pugh M (2009). Review: the Limits to Capital: the Geographies of Garbage Governance: Interventions, Interactions and Outcomesm, Governing a Common Sea: Environmental Policies in the Baltic Sea Region, Innovation in Environmental Policy? Integrating the Environment for Sustainability, Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, the Politics of Climate Change, Insecure Spaces: Peacekeeping, Power and Performance in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia. Environment and Planning. C, Government and Policy, 27(5), 940-949.

Barr S (2009). The geographies of garbage governance: interventions, interactions and outcomes. ENVIRON PLANN C, 27(5), 942-943.

Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2008). A novel conceptual framework for examining environmental behavior in large organizations - a case study of the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. ENVIRON BEHAV, 40(3), 426-450. Abstract.

Barr S (2008). Book Review of Environmental management for sustainable development 2nd edn. AREA, 40(1), 142-143.

Barr S, Gilg AW (2007). A conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing attitudes towards environmental behaviour. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 89 B(4), 361-379. Abstract.

Tudor T, Barr S, Gilg A (2007). A tale of two locational settings: is there a link between pro-environmental behaviour at work and at home?. Local Environment, 12(4), 409-421. Abstract.

Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). A tale of two settings: does pro-environmental behaviour at home influence sustainable environmental actions at work?. Local Environment, 4(12), 409-421.

Barr SW (2007). Factors influencing environmental attitudes and behaviors: a UK case study of household waste management. Environment and Behavior, 39(4), 435-473.

Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). Linking intended behaviour and actions: a case study of healthcare waste management in the Cornwall NHS. RESOUR CONSERV RECY, 51(1), 1-23. Abstract.

Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2007). Strategies for improving recycling behaviour within the Cornwall National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. Waste Management and Research, 25(6), 510-516. Abstract.

Barr SW (2006). Book review of Waste in Ecological Economics. Local Environment, 3(11), 347-348.

Barr SW (2006). Environmental Action in the Home: investigating the "value-action" gap. Geography, 91(1), 43-54.

Barr SW, Gilg A (2006). Sustainable Lifestyles: framing environmental action in and around the home. Geoforum, 37(6), 906-920.

Barr S (2006). Waste in Ecological Economics. LOCAL ENVIRONMENT, 11(3), 347-348. Author URL.

Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Behavioural attitudes towards water saving: Evidence from a study of environmental actions. Ecological Economics, 57(3), 400-414.

Barr S (2005). Book Review of Garbage wars: the search for environmental justice in Chicago. ENVIRON PLANN A, 37(2), 379-380.

Barr SW (2005). Book review of Case Studies in Ecotourism. Tourism Geographies, 1(7), 113-115.

Barr S, Gilg AW (2005). Conceptualising and analysing household attitudes and actions to a growing environmental problem - Development and application of a framework to guide local waste policy. APPL GEOGR, 25(3), 226-247. Abstract.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2005). Defining the multi-dimensional aspects of household waste management: a study of reported behaviour in Devon. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 45(2), 172-192.

Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Encouraging Environmental Action by Exhortation: Evidence from a case study in Devon. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 48(4), 593-618.

Gilg AW, Barr SW (2005). Green consumption or sustainable lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer. Futures, 37(6), 481-504.

Barr S, Gilg, A.W. Ford, N. (2005). ‘The Household Energy Gap: examining the divide between habitual and purchase-related conservation behaviours’. Energy Policy, 33(11), 1425-1444.

Barr SW (2004). Are we all environmentalists now? Rhetoric and reality in environmental action. Geoforum, 35(2), 231-249.

Barr S (2004). What we buy, what we throw away and how we use our voice, sustainable household waste management in the UK. SUSTAIN DEV, 12(1), 32-44. Abstract.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Attitudes towards recycling household waste in Exeter, Devon: quantitative and qualitative approaches. Local Environment, 8(4), 407-421.

Barr SW (2003). Book review of Exploring Sustainable Consumption. Journal of Rural Studies, 2(19), 253-254.

Barr S (2003). Exploring sustainable consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES, 19(2), 253-254. Author URL.

Barr, S. (2003). Strategies for Sustainability: citizens and responsible environmental behaviour. Area, 35(3), 227-240.

Barr SW (2003). The Big Clean Up: Public Rhetoric and Reality. Town and Coutnry Planning, 71(10), 280-281.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 1: environmentalism in Britain today. Town and Country Planning, 72(6), 185-186.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 2: how do people value the environment. Town and Country Planning, 72(7), 216-217.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2003). Who are the environmentalists? Part 3: encouraging environmental action. Town and Country Planning, 72(7), 218-220.

Barr SW, Ford N, Gilg AW (2001). A conceptual framework for understanding and analysing attitudes towards household waste management. Environment and Planning A, 33(11), 2025-2048.

Barr SW (2001). Book review of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development. Local Environment, 3(6), 375-376.

Barr S, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2001). Differences between household waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported behaviours, intentions and explanatory variables. Environmental and Waste Management, 4(2), 69-82. Abstract.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Ford NJ (2001). Differences between reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported waste management behaviour. Journal of Environmental and Waste Management, 4(2), 69-82.

Chapters

Barr S (In Press). Household Analysis: researching 'green lifestyles through a survey approach. In Fahy F, Bau H (Eds.) Research Methods for Sustainability in the Social Sciences.

Barr S, Shaw G (2022). 14 “Getting the summer you deserve” locking-in flying to the tourist experience. In (Ed) Low-Cost Aviation, 213-231.

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

Barr SW, Shaw G, Preston J (2017). Influencing travel behaviour. In Shaw J, Doherty I (Eds.) The Inside Track: why transport matters and how we can make it better, Routledge.

Barr SW (2016). Environment and Waste. In Castree N, Goodchilrd M, Kobayashi A, Lui W, Marston D, Richardson D (Eds.) Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Abstract.

Barr SW, Shaw G (2016). Knowledge co-production and behavioural change: collaborative approaches for promoting low-carbon mobility. In Higham J, Hopkins D (Eds.) Low Carbon Mobility Transitions, Goodhfellow Publishing. Abstract.

Barr S, Prillwitz J (2016). Negotiating tourist identities: Mobilities in an age of climate change. In (Ed) Lifestyle Mobilities: Intersections of Travel, Leisure and Migration, 223-238. Abstract.

Barr SW (2015). Beyond behaviour change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In Kennedy E, Cohen M, Krogman N (Eds.) Putting Sustainability into Practice: applications and advances in research on sustainable consumption, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 91-108.

Barr S (2015). Chapter 5: Beyond behavior change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In (Ed) Putting Sustainability into Practice, 91-108.

Barr SW (2015). Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS. In Clifford N, French S, Valentine G (Eds.) Key Methods in Geography, London: Sage. Abstract.

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

Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2014). A strategic framework for rainwater harvesting. In Adeyeye K (Ed) Water Efficiency in Buildings: theory and practice, New York, US: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 209-226.

Shaw G, Barr S, Wooler J (2014). The Application of Social Marketing to Tourism. In McCabe S (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Marketing, London: Routledge, 54-65.

Robinson GM, Guilbert S, Tudor T, Barr SW, Metcalfe A, Riley M (2013). Ethnicity, environmental behaviour and environmental justice: Initial findings from research in a London borough. In (Ed) Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment, 291-314.

Barr SW (2011). Environmentalism. In Mansvelt J (Ed) Encyclodepia of Green Consumerism, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 125-129.

Barr SW (2011). Recycling. In Mansvelt J (Ed) Encyclopedia of Green Consumerism, Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 375-382.

Barr S, Prillwitz J (2011). Sustainable Travel: mobilities, lifestyles and practice. In Newton P (Ed) Urban Consumption, CSIRO, 159-171.

Barr SW (2010). Municipal Solid Waste Management. In Warf B (Ed) Enclyclopedia of Geography, Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2008). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: a social marketing approach. In Krishna SJ (Ed) Marketing for Social Change: perspectives and experiences, Hyderebad: Icfair University Press, 145-169.

Barr SW, Shaw G (2008). Understanding and promoting behaviour change using lifestyle groups. In Reddy S (Ed) Green Consumerism: approaches and country experiences, Hyderebad: Icfai University Press, 108-128.

Barr SW, Gilg AW (2004). Global Action Plan: rural environmentalism in Devon. In Lobley M (Ed) Annual Review: Centre for Rural Research.

Barr S (2003). 7 Waste minimisation strategies. In (Ed) Local Environmental Sustainability, 138-168.

Barr SW, Gilg AW (2003). Environmentalism in rural Devon. In Lobley M (Ed) Annual Review: Centre for Rural Research.

Barr SW (2003). Waste minimisation strategies. In Theobald K, Buckingham-Hatfield, S (Eds.) Local Environmental Sustainability: approaches and solutions, Cambridge: Woodhead, 138-168.

Conferences

Barr S, Prillwitz J (In Press). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. World Conference on Travel Research.

Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2010). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. EASST010 Conference. 31st Aug - 3rd Sep 2010.

Barr SW, Ward S, Memon FA, Butler D (2010). Transitioning SMEs to Sustainable Water Management Practices: Challenges and Opportunities. Sustainable Water Management 2010.

Barr SW (2009). Encouraging Pro-environmental Behaviour: exploring a lifestyles approach. Sustainable Consumption: changing habits.

Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2009). Moving Towards Sustainability? Barriers and Motivations for Changes in Individual Travel Behaviour. RGS-IBG.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J, Shaw G (2009). Spaces of (un)sustainability: the ‘paradox’ of the citizen-consumer. RGS-IBG.

Barr SW (2009). ‘Eco-hypocrisy!’ Contested notions of the ‘sustainable lifestyle’. Association of American Geographers.

Barr SW (2009). “Like Swampy and his mates”. Sustainable lifestyles and the behaviour change agenda’. University of Nottingham School of Geography seminar.

Barr SW, Shaw G, Coles T, Prillwitz J (2008). 'A holiday is a holiday’: practicing sustainability, home and away. RGS-IBG.

Barr SW, Coles T, Shaw G (2008). Changing Behaviours for a Changing Climate: a lifestyles approach. Claimte Change: dangerous rates of change.

Barr SW (2008). Changing consumption patterns. ESRC Seminar: Local economic development in an era of climate change and peak oil.

Barr SW, Blewitt J (2008). Developing Sustainability Leaders for the Future. all Our Futures.

Prillwitz J, Barr SW (2008). Do We Go Too Far? Connections Between Tourist Travel, Mobility Behaviour and (Sustainable) Lifestyles. RGS-IBG.

Barr SW (2008). Doing Your Bit? can we change our lifestyles to help the Planet?. Planet Eath Lecture Series.

Barr SW (2008). Sustainable Lifestyles: just for Christmas?. University of Plymouth School of Geography Seminar.

Barr SW (2008). Sustainable Lifestyles?. The contested notions of environmentally-responsible behaviour. Great Western Research Seminar Series.

Barr SW, Shaw G (2007). Environmentally responsible behaviour and attitudes to low cost airlines: a UK perspective. RGS-IBG.

Barr SW (2006). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: policy and practice in the UK. University of Portsmouth Geography Seminar.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Targeting Specific Lifestyle Groups: a social marketing approach. Influencing Behaviour Through Policy Conference.

Barr SW, Shaw G (2006). Understanding and Promoting Behaviour Change Using Lifestyle Groups. can We Change a Rubbish Habit? Conference (international conference on the social context of waste management).

Barr SW (2005). Household waste and environmental lifestyles in Devon. RGS-IBG.

Tudor TL, Barr SW, Gilg AW (2005). The Role of Sustainability within service delivery in the National Health Service in Cornwall (UK). International Solid Waste Management Association Conference.

Barr SW (2005). The household energy gap: examining the links between attitudes and behaviours in energy saving in the home. Institute for Sustainable Energy Seminar.

Barr SW (2004). Green Today, Gone Tomorrow: the new environmentalism. University of Plymouth Geograplhy Seminar paper.

Barr SW (2003). Collaborative working and environmental behaviour research. Environmental Psychology in the UK.

Barr SW (2003). Conceptualising environmental action: a geographical approach. Seminar, Institute forSustainable Technology.

Barr SW (2003). Green consumerism. Centre for Rural Research Policy Symposium.

Barr SW, Gilg AW (2003). New horizons in environmental behaviour research in geography. RGS-BG.

Barr SW (2003). Sustainable lifestyles: environmental action in and around the home. International Sustainable Development Research Conference.

Barr SW (2002). Environmental behaviour research in geography: integrating research agendas. Environmental Psychology in the UK.

Barr SW (2001). Factors influencing household attitudes and behaviours towards waste management in Exeter, Devon. Environmental Design Research Association Conference.

Reports

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

Cloke P, Barr SW, Barnett J, Williams A (2015). Housing Needs in Exeter: a report to Exeter City Council. Exeter City Council, Exeter, University of Exeter. Abstract.

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

Barr SW (2007). Sustainable Living Project: Final Report (Report 4) Analysis of Data from Residents & DCHA Employees. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.

Barr SW (2006). Exeter City Council Student Recycling Project Report. Exeter City Council.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles: a social marketing approach. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.

Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 1 Behaviour and Attitude Change at Oak Meadow.

Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 2 Environmental knowledge, awareness and quality of life e at Oak Meadow. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.

Barr SW (2006). Sustainable Living Project: Report 3 a comparison between Oak Meadow residents and a sample of Devon’s population. Devon and Cornwall Housing Association.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Targeting Specific Lifestyle Groups. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.

Barr SW, Gilg AW, Shaw G (2006). Technical Report: Providing the supporting analysis, methodological approaches and emerging findings. DEFRA, London, DEFRA.

Barr SW (2003). Green consumption: a social-psychological perspective. Exeter, University of Exeter.

Publications by year

In Press

Barr S, Prillwitz J (In Press). Green Travellers? Exploring the spatial context of sustainable mobility styles. World Conference on Travel Research.

Barr S (In Press). Household Analysis: researching 'green lifestyles through a survey approach. In Fahy F, Bau H (Eds.) Research Methods for Sustainability in the Social Sciences.

Dawkins L, Williamson D, Barr S, Lampkin S (In Press). Influencing Transport Behaviour: a Bayesian Modelling Approach for Segmentation of Social Surveys. Journal of Transport Geography

In Prep

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

2022

Barr S, Shaw G (2022). 14 “Getting the summer you deserve” locking-in flying to the tourist experience. In (Ed) Low-Cost Aviation, 213-231.

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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Barr S, Winks L, Hilser H (2022). Education at a Time of Emergency: a practitioner's handbook.

Barr S (2022). Negotiating sustainabilities in applied geography: treading an uneven path. Space and Polity, 1-7.

Devine-Wright P, Whitmarsh L, Gatersleben B, O’Neill S, Hartley S, Burningham K, Sovacool B, Barr S, Anable J (2022). Placing people at the heart of climate action. PLOS Climate, 1(5).

Sukmana G (2022). Women and Food Waste in Indonesia: Within the Household and Community.

Food waste has been a concern for numerous stakeholders because of its negative impact. Since consumers are believed to be the primary cause of food waste, various policies are in place to reduce food waste generated by consumers. On the other hand, academics carry out numerous studies, one of which examines the habits of consumers concerning food waste. Research also shows that women play a significant role in the community and at home when it comes to food and waste management. Therefore, this research aims to critically examine women’s experience and knowledge concerning food waste practices within the community and the household from a feminist perspective.

This study used a qualitative approach, in contrast to the majority of studies on gendered food waste management, which employ a quantitative approach. More precisely, this study criticised the use of a psychological approach by taking the ‘everyday life’ approach. Psychological approaches are deemed incapable of providing insight into the selection of individuals as units of analysis, and it disregards the decision-making process of individuals. RW 09 Palasari, a community in Bandung, Indonesia, was chosen as the research location, involving 29 female respondents.

This study found the importance of the ‘everyday life’ approach in research on food waste management in the community and the household from women’s perspective. In addition, this study also found that women played an important role in managing food waste in the household. As for the household scope, this study found two things: knowing that cultural and demographic factors affected women in food waste management practices, and women’s foodwork activities affected the amount of food waste produced.

While this study has a global scope on food waste, it is primarily based on empirical research conducted in Bandung, Indonesia. The study intends to serve as a guide for identifying common reasons for food waste; however, it does not provide a universal truth applicable to all places and cultures. To what extent places-specific or cultural factors can account for the degree of inconsistency in results is beyond the scope of this study but could be a potential area for future research.

This study also yielded recommendations for future research on gendered food waste management. A religious perspective in food waste management should be considered in future research because it was found to be quite influential in this study. Furthermore, because the majority of respondents in this study held traditional household divisions of labour, it is necessary to investigate the household division of labour when both men and women work in an office.

This study recommended several policy implementations in addition to future research. Women are the main target of food waste management campaigns because of their significant role in food waste management in the community and at home. A biodigester was also found to be effective in the management of food waste. As a result, more research is required so that people can manage food waste while also benefiting from this technology.

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Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2022). ‘I feel the weather and you just know’. Narrating the dynamics of commuter mobility choices. Journal of Transport Geography, 103

2021

Barr S (2021). An ethnography of global environmentalism: becoming Friends of the Earth. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, 27(4), 1029-1030. Author URL.

Hilser H (2021). Collective stewardship and pathways to change: understanding pro-social values, connectedness to nature and empathic capacity to cultivate ecocentrism in rural communities of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Drawing from multiple research traditions, I investigated pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours and assessed potential of behaviour change strategies, focusing on addressing hunting as a practice. An immersive 14-month ethnographic study involving participant observations, interviews, and focus groups explored the cognitive, social, and spiritual histories of four rural communities in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Particular attention was paid to the individualistic elements of attitudes, values, and beliefs, along with the social norms and perceived behavioural control governing these variables.
My research revealed highly pro-social communities, with empathic tendencies and care-giving values, demonstrating latent potential for conservation advocacy. Expression of these values is dependent on several loci of control, particularly normative pressures of close communal living and religious doctrine. Land stewardship through participation in resource management initiatives generates responsibility toward wildlife and natural areas. I discovered the heterogenization of old and new belief systems toac have major implications for control and acceptance of behaviours and how likely people partake in practices related to the environment. Next, a strong affinity for nature was recorded, demonstrated by preferences for natural settings, awe and wonder of nature, human-animal relations including expression of empathic and compassionate predispositions. I noted a growing phenomenon of cultural erosion and loss of traditional ecological knowledge. A call for preservationism reflected the wish to avert breakdown of ancient cultural roots and identities, and the wisdom which connects people to the natural world. Finally, I experienced emergent environmental identities and openness to change, with a transition toward pride over exploitation of native wildlife, suggesting potential pathways to ecocentrism and thus more sustainable lifestyles. I distilled these insights into a strategic theory of change. This includes developing campaign messages which promote pro-sociality and environmental citizenship; working within the governing structures of societal control, particularly belief systems; and speaking to pre-existing communal values and social norms surrounding the acceptance of exploitative practices related to the natural world. Emergent from this research is a nuanced understanding of cultural dynamism and the links between pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours, which may help to normalise more harmonious relationships between people and nature.

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Buchan PM (2021). Investigating marine citizenship and its role in creating good marine environmental health.

The negative anthropogenic impacts upon the world ocean are accelerating. Marine citizenship has been proposed as a policy channel to work at an individual level of responsibility to improve marine environmental health and contribute to the achievement of a sustainable future. This interdisciplinary research reflects the principles of post-normal science, through its epistemologically pragmatic and pluralist approach to broadening our understanding of marine citizenship.

Drawing on environmental psychology, human geography, environmental law, green political theory, and sociology, this research considers marine citizenship according to four key research questions: i) What is marine citizenship and who participates in it? ii) How are institutional policy frameworks of marine citizenship understood, interpreted and experienced by participants? iii) How do motivational and value-based factors influence marine citizenship choices? and iv) How do place-related factors influence the practice of marine citizenship? Mixed methods were used to bring together a range of data and maximise their thesis contribution. The research design consisted of an online survey of active marine citizens reached via three case studies: two community marine groups and one national citizen science project. This was followed by ethnographic observation of marine citizenship in practice and open-ended interview of purposively selected participants, to maximise insight into diversity of marine citizens and gain in-depth qualitative data.

The results provide a number of novel insights into the conception and motivation of marine citizenship. In my research, prevailing interpretations of marine citizenship as a set of pro-environmental behaviours are extended by situating the concept within citizenship theory. Here I give additional focus to the understanding of marine citizenship as the right to construct and transform society’s relationship with the ocean, and how public participation in marine decision-making is perceived as being under-served by legislation and procedure. My data show that marine citizenship is influenced by a complex of interacting variables and that there is no one kind of person who becomes a marine citizen. Yet environmental identity, stimulation and conformity basic human values, climate change concern, place attachment and, in particular, place dependency are important factors for ‘thicker’ marine citizenship. The research uncovered a human affinity with the ocean through unique marine place attachment, which I call thalassophilia.

These findings challenge normative approaches to pro-environmental behaviour, which frequently focus on environmental education, information, and awareness raising. Creating opportunities for marine experiences promotes attachment to the ocean and in turn ‘thicker’ marine citizenship. The results collectively point to a marine identity, formed through ocean connectedness and enabled by favourable socio-economic and policy conditions. When associated with good ocean health, marine identity can underpin and be reinforced by marine citizenship. Marine citizenship coincides with broader environmental and civic citizenship; therefore marine experience opportunities may contribute to wider acceptance of policy and public participation in the paradigmatic change now facing humans, as we attempt to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the coming years.

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Auster R (2021). Renewed Coexistence: Human dimensions of reintroducing the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) into England.

Coexistence is the adaptive but sustainable behaviour of humans and animals living together, which can be beneficial for humans. Conflicts can occur between humans and wildlife or among humans about wildlife which require effective and socially acceptable management solutions to achieve coexistence. Wildlife reintroduction is where species are returned to landscapes where they previously existed but are no longer present. A knowledge of how to anticipate and address conflicts in reintroduction scenarios would aid the development of sustainable solutions in this unique coexistence context, as would an understanding of how social benefits occur and can be maximised post-reintroduction. Further, understanding how reintroduction governance compares to the governance of coexistence with species that are already present would help aid the integration of reintroduced species into anthropogenic landscapes. In this thesis, these questions are addressed with a pragmatic, mixed-methods approach to investigating the human dimensions of Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) reintroduction in England. Informed by a foundational nationwide attitudinal survey, the research consists of a series of studies: two of potential conflicts, two of social benefits, and one exploring the experiences of stakeholders involved in a reintroduction project. The thesis finds: 1) potential conflicts can be anticipated and addressed with early and appropriate engagement, and by seeking to understand social attitudes towards potential management solutions beyond just reintroduction itself; 2) social benefits occur naturally to some extent, but are greatest where there is active investment in the opportunities; 3) lessons from existing literature can be applied to governance of coexistence with reintroduced species, but key differences arise from the ‘future-thinking’ needed in reintroduction. The thesis concludes reintroduction is both an ecological and social science, and defines ‘Renewed Coexistence’ as coexistence between a species which was formerly resident and humans in the locality today to whom the species is a ‘new’ presence.

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Daprano G (2021). Roots through the City: Urban Foraging and Ecological Literacy. Abstract.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility. Geoforum, 127, 283-292.

Barr S, Lampkin S, Dawkins L, Williamson D (2021). Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city. Geoforum, 125, 140-149.

Manning R (2021). The Role and Potential of Environmental Education for Enhancing the Wellbeing of Young People: a Case Study of the Field Studies Council, Slapton Ley.

This thesis explores the role that curriculum-based environmental education plays in influencing young people’s wellbeing. It adopts a social constructivist approach to understand how young people's wellbeing is understood, articulated, and experienced in residential learning environments. The thesis argues that positivistic and adult-centred accounts of wellbeing have restricted our appreciation of the diverse ways in which young people engage with and recognise their emotions in educational settings. In adopting an alternative framework, the thesis argues for experiential and subjective understandings of wellbeing to be developed through a range of methodological tools. The research sought to develop these ideas by focusing on the experiences of students visiting the Field Studies Centre at Slapton Ley (Devon, UK) and utilised focus groups and solicited participant diaries, providing a basis for phenomenological inquiry that enabled a direct engagement with young people participating in environmental education programmes.

The empirical research focused on the experiences of young people between the ages of 14 and 18 years on a residential, curriculum-based environmental education programme and examined the role and potential of environmental education for supporting the wellbeing of young people. From an initial thematic analysis of the data, five elements were identified as key to the participants’ wellbeing: wellbeing as multidimensional, social elements, psychological elements, physical health and environmental elements. These elements were then used to provide a framing for understanding young people’s experiences of wellbeing throughout the lived experience of curriculum-based environmental education and, as a result, the research yielded three themes that provide an understanding of the key experiences of environmental education and its connection to wellbeing: experiences of place, experiences of people, and the learning experience. Using these themes and the participants’ conceptualisations of wellbeing, the research then explored how strategies can be developed within environmental education to promote the wellbeing of young people and reveals the importance of fostering feelings of restoration, increasing social bonds and developing a sense of achievement and accomplishment. Consequently, this research contributes to the fields of environmental education and health and wellbeing research within a geographical context through demonstrating the importance of qualitative approaches in revealing the ways young people articulate their emotions in educational settings. Alongside this, it challenges assumptions about the way nature is utilised in wellbeing interventions, highlighting the role that social and cultural backgrounds can play in the way nature is experienced by different groups and how this can be addressed within environmental education. Therefore, a key contribution of this research is in providing an empirical analysis for the relationship between environmental education and wellbeing, and how to best design environmental education programmes that meet the needs of young people.

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2020

2019

Harmannij D (2019). Bringing Environmental Issues into Church Life & Bringing Faith-based motivations into the Environmental movement: What role can faith play in addressing environmental problems?.

In recent years many people have started to see religious institutions as valuable actors in addressing environmental problems. However, beyond well-known statements by faith leaders, much remains understudied about how ‘ordinary believers’ engage with the often novel and polarised issue of environmental problems. Therefore, by building on existing research about postsecularity and ‘religion and the environment’ this thesis wants to understand how believers engage with the environment, both in the context of the church and within the wider society through collaboration with secular groups. Firstly, it will critique the approach that human geography scholarship has taken towards Habermas and his idea of postsecularity. Secondly, it seeks to understand how local churches relate and engage with the environment. Thirdly, it wants to understand how environmentally concerned Christians from a faith-based environmental group attempt to give environmental issues a more prominent place in church life and lastly, this thesis wants to understand how environmentally concerned Christians join secular groups on shared concerns about the planet. In its findings this thesis will be critical and point out the many struggles and difficulties that churches and environmentally concerned Christians face when they try to get involved with environmental issues. But it will also portray hopeful aspects such as the eco-church approach that one of the participating churches used and the strong faith-based motivations to address environmental problems that environmentally concerned Christians have.

This thesis will also argue that religion/faith doesn’t make believers ‘green’ but if for example people have trust in science, have been raised in an environmentally minded household and are left wing than their religious belief can provide a deep and sincere faith-based commitment for protecting the environment. This thesis will also argue that many environmentally concerned Christians are involved in secular environmental groups and find many shared concerns with them but that secular environmental groups also have little attention for personal faith or even find it ‘irrelevant’. The implications of this will be discussed and there will also be attention for the ways in which Christian environmental ethics can ‘cross over’ to the wider green movement and the rest of society.

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

Warren S (2019). From spectacle to relational: an exploration of an emotionally and geographically centred approach to visitor behaviour change at the zoo.

This thesis is centred on the zoo, its 21st century mission as a centre for conservation, and specifically within this mission, the aim to engage visitors to undertake pro-environmental behaviours in support of wildlife and wider nature conservation. To date zoos have utilised community-based social marketing as the predominant approach to deliver such behavioural changes. This is reflective of the wider framework for addressing environmental challenges, where a psychologically-based approach to behaviour change has provided the dominant paradigm within western governance. This thesis engages with critique of this paradigm, which has failed to reduce the negative impact of human activities on the natural world, by exploring a richer engagement with the ‘more than rational’ i.e. emotional aspects of decision making within the context of the zoo. In so doing it mobilises alternative conceptualisations of behaviour change beyond the psychologically-based approach, and scholarship from animal geographies and wider cultural geography. The research methodology engaged an ethnographic approach, to date underutilised in zoo-based visitor studies. This was deployed in three separate phases between November 2016 and September 2017, engaging a total of 41 participants within 14 different participant groups. Go-along interviews at Paignton Zoo, Devon, were used to capture and explore participants’ emotional responses to the animals they encountered. Beyond the boundary of the zoo visit, semi-structured interviews enabled exploration of the influence of these zoo-based human-animal encounters on participants’ expressed feelings towards, and pro-environmental behaviours in support of, endangered wildlife and the wider natural world. From a detailed thematic analysis of the empirical data, three key themes were identified: embodied experience; persistence: the influence of the zoo visit over time and space; and opportunities and challenges. These provide the framing to address the influence of the emotional dimension of human-animal encounters at the zoo in relation to behaviour change. In addition, the research yielded four critical, cross-cutting dimensions, which have provided new and original evidence towards the value of employing an alternative research practice in relation to behaviour change at the zoo, which moves beyond the dominant psychologically-based approach: (i) the importance of the emotional dimension of human-animal encounters at the zoo as a dynamic element in driving potential behaviour change; (ii) the limitations of social marketing as an approach to engage visitors in wildlife conservation; (iii) the practices of visitor engagement at the zoo as a mechanism to deliver behaviour change; and (iv) the tensions in delivering the zoo’s behaviour change agenda alongside its other aims.

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2018

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

Barr S (2018). Personal mobility and climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 9(5).

2017

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

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

Barr SW, Shaw G, Preston J (2017). Influencing travel behaviour. In Shaw J, Doherty I (Eds.) The Inside Track: why transport matters and how we can make it better, Routledge.

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

2016

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

Barr S, Pollard J (2016). Geographies of Transition: Narrating environmental activism in an age of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’. Environment and Planning a Economy and Space, 49(1), 47-64.

2015

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

Barr S (2015). Chapter 5: Beyond behavior change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility. In (Ed) Putting Sustainability into Practice, 91-108.

Cloke P, Barr SW, Barnett J, Williams A (2015). Housing Needs in Exeter: a report to Exeter City Council. Exeter City Council, Exeter, University of Exeter. Abstract.

Barr SW (2015). Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheet programmes: MS Excel, MINITAB and SPSS. In Clifford N, French S, Valentine G (Eds.) Key Methods in Geography, London: Sage. Abstract.

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

2014

Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Are we resilient enough?. Exe Press, 35, 7-8.

Barr SW, Woodley E (2014). Climate Change: communicating the risks. Geography Review, 28(1), 34-37. Abstract.

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

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

Shaw G, Barr S, Wooler J (2014). The Application of Social Marketing to Tourism. In McCabe S (Ed) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Marketing, London: Routledge, 54-65.

2013

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

Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2013). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Management, 27(4), 959-979. Abstract.

2012

Metcalfe A, Riley M, Barr S, Tudor T, Robinson G, Guilbert S (2012). Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices. SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 60, 135-155. Author URL.

Ward SL, Barr S, Butler D, Memon FA (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK - socio-technical theory and practice. Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Ward SL, Barr S, Memon FA, Butler D (2012). Rainwater harvesting in the UK: exploring water-user perceptions. Urban Water Journal

Pearce R, Dessai S, Barr S (2012). Re-Framing Environmental Social Science Research for Sustainable Water Management in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Management, 1-21.

Barr SW, Devine-Wright P (2012). Resilient Communities: transforming sustainabilities. Local Environment, 17(5), 525-532.

Barr SW, Prillwitz J (2012). ‘Lead has become Carbon Dioxide'. Framing sustainable travel in the age of climate change. Local Environment, 17(4), 425-440.

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