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Design behaviour for sustainability

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An international expert panel probes how engineers, architects and behavioural scientists can work together to learn about design behaviour for sustainability — and what all interested scholars and practitioners might learn from it.

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The panel benefits from the support of the University of Virginia’s Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment at Princeton University, the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia University, the environmental initiatives at ideas42 and at Evidn., and the National Science Foundation, through awards #1840560 and #1744246.

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  1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Leidy Klotz

  2. Evidn, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    John Pickering

  3. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ruth Schmidt

  4. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Elke U. Weber

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Klotz, L., Pickering, J., Schmidt, R. et al. Design behaviour for sustainability. Nat Sustain 2, 1067–1069 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0449-1

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