An excellent article describing the interdisciplinary approach of rebound effects in German solar photovoltaic user households (prosumer) has been recently published (Galvin et al. 2022). Authors highlight the most important steps of their interdisciplinary process: an engagement to dialogue between various background researchers, to design “from the beginning” an interdisciplinary method and findings analysis strategies, to identify the

In climate change perspectives, three inequalities have been well-documented: inequalities between (1) and within countries (2), and inequalities between generations (3). However, the gendered inequalities are and will be exacerbated by climate change consequences (4). An open-access chapter presents the most important issues of this question (4). Authors add a health perspective combined with climate change gendered inequalities.

In November, I gave a talk for the European Health Psychology Society SIG Equity, Global Health and Sustainability. Slides are available here.

In a preprint co-authored with G. Chevance et al. (1), we examined the associations between climate change consequences and health behaviors.

What is the related travel annual carbon footprint of German Football Bundesliga fans ? Two German researchers collected the following self-reported data about age, sex, level of education, income, environmental values, club membership, favorite team and travel behavior in relation home and away matches (for 2018/19 season) via an online questionnaire (1). They included 539 fans and >50% of respondents were a member of

I write this blog article during an important forest fire in British Columbia (Canada), occurring during an extreme heat wave in the same geographical area.

I share my text published in University Affairs. When I tell my colleagues that I’m trying to examine the links between physical activity, sports and climate change, the most common response is still: What’s the connection? My research focuses more generally on questions of health psychology.

The definition of sustainable diet varies between the authors and countries (1). However, the main characteristics are provided by Lonnie et al. (2) : to consume a variety of unprocessed or minimally processed foods, (i.e., whole-grains, pulses, fruits and vegetables), with moderate amounts of eggs, dairy, poultry and fish and modest amounts of ruminant meat . The Food and Agriculture Organization has published a more broad definition of

A recent meta-analysis modeled the effects of psychological interventions (called ’soft interventions’) on car use (1). Most of included studies targeted the perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, values, and norms of participants.

L’approche historique et décalée des pratiques sportives a toujours été attrayante pour moi (voir les deux ouvrages présentés sur le blogue). Elle facilite la mise en perspective du rôle des activités physiques, des loisirs et du sport au sein de la société. Les Éditions de l’atelier, avec le soutien de la Fédération sportive et gymnique du travail ( FSGT ), ont publié “Terrains de jeux, terrains de luttes.

Des membres de l’association du Shift Project (Shift1team) ont réalisé un rapport pour guider les personnes qui souhaitent aider leur proche à modifier leurs comportements individuels carbonés.