• Skip to main navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
CAST

CAST

  • Home
  • About
    • Meet the team
    • Advisory board
    • Collaborators
    • Careers
    • Sustainability Charter
    • Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Plan
  • Our research
    • What we research
    • Research themes
      • Theme 1: Visioning
      • Theme 2: Learning
      • Theme 3: Trialling
      • Theme 4: Engaging
  • Real world impact
    • Work with us
    • CAST Impact fund
      • Case studies
        • Developing a tool to accelerate climate action at the city scale
        • Designing new intervention pathways to reduce water and energy use in high-use households
        • Connecting Chorlton Climate Action Partnership to strengthen climate action in cities
    • CAST Phase 1: Our work and impact 
    • CAST Phase 2: What we plan to achieve
  • News & blog
  • Resources
    • Academic articles
    • Briefings
    • Reports
    • Webinars
    • Tools
      • Carbon and Co-benefits Decision Support Tool
      • CAST Data Portal: Public views on climate
        • CAST Data Portal: Climate Views dashboard
        • CAST Data Portal: Climate Action dashboard 
        • CAST Data Portal: Trust and Action dashboard 
        • CAST Data Portal – Methodology and data 
  • Contact us
  • Skip to menu toggle button

Academic Articles Categorie: Behaviour change

Shifting horizons: Significant life events and pro-environmental behaviour change in early adulthood

Mitev K, Whitmarsh L, Gattis M, Nash N (2025) Shifting horizons: Significant life events and pro-environmental behaviour change in early adulthood. PLOS Clim 4(10): e0000709. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000709

Parenting and climate change: assessing carbon capability in early parenthood

Hampton, S., Taylor, E. & Whitmarsh, L. Parenting and climate change: assessing carbon capability in early parenthood. Popul Environ 47, 34 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-025-00506-6

Driving carbon offset donations: Evaluating the effectiveness of nudging, framing, and Nudge+ techniques

Effendy, C., Hampton, S. & Whitmarsh, L. (2025) Driving carbon offset donations: Evaluating the effectiveness of nudging, framing, and nudge+ techniques, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 107, p. 102758. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102758.

The goal proximity of employee green behaviour: validating and refining the Green Five taxonomy

Maguire, D., Michaelides, G. and Tregaskis, O. (2025) ‘The goal proximity of employee green behaviour: validating and refining the Green Five taxonomy’, Journal of Environmental Management, 393, p. 126877. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2025.126877.

“Moments of Change” and Low-Carbon Behaviors: A Multidisciplinary, Systematic Review

Whitmarsh, L., K. Mitev, N. Nash, et al. 2025. “ “Moments of Change” and Low-Carbon Behaviors: A Multidisciplinary, Systematic Review.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 16, no. 4: e70014. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70014.

Exploring when reducers and non-reducers eat red meat – a qualitative analysis of goals and situations

K, Laffan. & Verfuerth, C. (2025). Exploring when reducers and non-reducers eat red meat – a qualitative analysis of goals and situations, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102681, ISSN 0272-4944, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102681.

Behavior change interventions to promote adoption of e-bike shared mobility in a rural area: evidence from a mixed-method field trial

Wilson, M. & Whitmarsh, L (2025). Behavior change interventions to promote adoption of e-bike shared mobility in a rural area: evidence from a mixed-method field trial. Front. Psychol. 16:1569176. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1569176

Climate Anxiety in the United Kingdom: Associations with Environmentally Relevant Behavioural Intentions, and the Moderating Role of Efficacy

A. Roberts, W. Poortinga, M.O. Williams, Climate Anxiety in the United Kingdom: Associations with Environmentally Relevant Behavioural Intentions, and the Moderating Role of Efficacy, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2025, 102595, ISSN 0272-4944, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102595.

Zero-car households – constraint or lifestyle choice? A systematic literature review of the factors affecting non-car ownership.

Toy, S., Whitmarsh, L., & Sun, Y. (2025). Zero-car households – constraint or lifestyle choice? A systematic literature review of the factors affecting non-car ownership. Transport Reviews, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2025.2457091

Capstick S, Whitmarsh L, Nash N, Haggar P, Lord J. (2019). Compensatory and Catalyzing Beliefs: Their Relationship to Pro-environmental Behavior and Behavioral Spillover in Seven Countries. Frontiers in psychology, 10, pp. 963.

Capstick S, Whitmarsh L, Nash N, Haggar P, Lord J. (2019). Compensatory and Catalyzing Beliefs: Their Relationship to Pro-environmental Behavior and Behavioral Spillover in Seven Countries. Frontiers in psychology, 10, pp. 963.
1 2 Next page »

Partners

CAST is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

About

The CAST team is based across five UK institutions, including the University of Bath (our centre hub), the University of Manchester, the University of East Anglia and Cardiff University, as well as the charity Climate Outreach.

Illustrations produced by Motion Manor.

Read our CAST Privacy Notice.

Contact

CAST, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
General queries: info@cast.ac.uk
Press: kw966@bath.ac.uk

Newsletter