CAST Academic articles

Behaviour change

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.
Howarth C, Bryant P, Corner A, Fankhauser S, Gouldson A, Whitmarsh L & Willis R. (2019). The Pathway toward a Net-Zero-Emissions Future. One Earth, 1(1), pp. 18-20.
Nielsen, K, Capstick S, Whitmarsh L. (2020). How psychology can help limit climate change. American Psychologist, in press.
Whitmarsh L, Poortinga W, Capstick S. (2021). Behaviour change to address climate change. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Verfuerth, C., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Adlerova, B., Dutton, A. (2023) Building relationships back into the food system: addressing food insecurity and food well-being, Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7.
Hampton, S. & Whitmarsh, L. (2023) Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play. One Earth, Volume 6, Issue 9, 2023, Pages 1157-1172, ISSN 2590-3322, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.08.006.
Haggar, P., Whitmarsh, L., & Nash, N. (2023) A Drop in the Ocean? Fostering Water-Saving Behavior and Spillover Through Information Provision and Feedback. Environment and Behavior, 55(6-7), 520-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201371

Community action

Nash N, Capstick S, Whitmarsh L, Chaudhary I, Manandhar R. (2019). Perceptions of Local Environmental Issues and the Relevance of Climate Change in Nepal's Terai: Perspectives From Two Communities. Frontiers in Sociology.

Energy

Hanmer, C., C. Wilson, O. Y. Edelenbosch and D. P. van Vuuren (2022). Translating Global Integrated Assessment Model Output into Lifestyle Change Pathways at the Country and Household Level. Energies 15(5). DOI: 10.3390/en15051650
Rao, N. D. and C. Wilson (2022) Advancing energy and well-being research. Nature Sustainability. 5(2): 98-103. [DOI.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00775-7]
Minas, A. M., García-Freites, S., Walsh, C., Mukoro, V., Aberilla, J. M., April, A., Kuriakose, J., Gaete-Morales, C., Gallego Schmid, A., & Mander, S. (2024). Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through energy access: Lessons from the Global South. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 199, 114457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2024.114457

Food & diet

Hoolohan C, Mclachlan C, Jones C, Larkin A, Birch C, Mander S & Broderick J. (2021). Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace routines for flying and food?. Climate Policy.
Verfuerth, C., Gregory-Smith, D., Oates, C. J., Jones, C. R. and Alevizou, P. (2021). Reducing meat consumption at work and at home: facilitators and barriers that influence contextual spillover. Journal of Marketing Management
Verfuerth, C., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Adlerova, B., Dutton, A. (2023) Building relationships back into the food system: addressing food insecurity and food well-being, Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7.
Lee, S., Freer, M., Wood, R., Edelenbosch, O., Sharmina, M., Doelman, J., Van Vuuren, D., & Wilson, C. (2023). From future diets to dishes: Communicating dietary shift associated with a 1.5°C scenario for Brazil, China, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1266708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1266708
Chard, E., Bergstad, C. J., Steentjes, K., Poortinga, W., & Demski, C. (2024). Gender and cross-country differences in the determinants of sustainable diet intentions: A multigroup analysis of the UK, China, Sweden, and Brazil. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355969

Government & policy

Lorenzoni, I., Jordan, A., Sullivan-Thomsett, C. & Geese, L. (2025). A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2449416.
Barton, H., Hoolohan, C., Jones, C. & McLachlan, C. (2025) Empowering city decision-makers: A practical guide to learning for decarbonisation at the city-level, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 167, 2025, 104046, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104046.
Howarth C, Bryant P, Corner A, Fankhauser S, Gouldson A, Whitmarsh L & Willis R. (2019). The Pathway toward a Net-Zero-Emissions Future. One Earth, 1(1), pp. 18-20.
Thorman D, Whitmarsh L, Demski C. (2020). Policy Acceptance of Low-Consumption Governance Approaches: The Effect of Social Norms and Hypocrisy. Sustainability, (3).
Dasandi N, HGraham, Lampard P, & Jankin Mikhaylov S, Intergovernmental engagement on health impacts of climate change (2021), Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.
Pohjolainen, P., Kukkonen, I., Jokinen, P., Poortinga, W., Adedayo Ogunbode, C., Böhm, G., … & Umit, R. (2021). The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.
Jordan A, Moore B, (2020). Durable by design. Policy feedback in a changing climate. Cambridge University Press.
Dudley, H., Jordan, A., & Lorenzoni, I. (2021). Independent expert advisory bodies facilitate ambitious climate policy responses. Science Brief.
Moore, B. & Jordan, A. (2020). Disaggregating the dependent variable in policy feedback research: an analysis of the EU emissions trading system. Policy Sciences.
Jordan, A & Moore, B (2021). UK climate policy: For the long haul. IEMA.
Jordan A, Lorenzoni I, Tosun J, Enguer Saus J, Geese L, Kenny J, Levario Saad E, Moore B & Schaub S. (2022) The political challenges of deep decarbonisation: towards a more integrated agenda, Climate Action.
Dudley, H., Jordan, A. & Lorenzoni, I. (2022) Advising national climate policy makers: A longitudinal analysis of the UK Climate Change Committee, Global Environmental Change, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102589
De Vito, L., Wynne-Jones, S., Heins, E. & Verfuerth, C. (2023) Policy fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production - insights from Welsh Government fellowships, Centre for Science and Policy.
Dupont, C., B. Moore, E. Boasson, V. Gravey and A.J. Jordan et al. (2023) Th ree decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality? WIRES Climate Change, e863. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.863
Moore, B., Geese, L., Kenny, J., Dudley, H., Jordan, A., Prados Pascual, A., Lorenzoni, I., Schaub, S., Enguer, J., & Tosun, J. (2024). Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature. WIREs Climate Change, e908. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.908
Geese, L., Sullivan-Thomsett, C., J. Jordan, A., Kenny, J., & Lorenzoni, I. (2024). Measuring climate mitigation policy content in text-as-data: navigating the conceptual challenges. Political Research Exchange, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2024.2387120

Health

Nielsen, K, Capstick S, Whitmarsh L. (2020). How psychology can help limit climate change. American Psychologist, in press.
Gill M, Ebi K, Smith K, Whitmarsh L, Haines A. (2020). We need health warning labels on points of sale of fossil fuels. British Medical Journal, in press
Dasandi N, HGraham, Lampard P, & Jankin Mikhaylov S, Intergovernmental engagement on health impacts of climate change (2021), Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.
Rao, N. D. and C. Wilson (2022) Advancing energy and well-being research. Nature Sustainability. 5(2): 98-103. [DOI.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00775-7]
Isham, A., Verfuerth, C., Armstrong, A., Elf, P., Gatersleben, B., & Jackson, T. (2022) The problematic role of materialistic values in the pursuit of sustainable well-being, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Martin-Kerry, J.M., Graham H.M, & Lampard, P. (2023) ‘I don't really associate climate change with actual people's health’: a qualitative study in England of perceptions of climate change and its impacts on health, Public Health, Volume 219, 2023, Pages 85-90.

Heating & cooling

Khosravi, F., Demski, C., King, L., Gross, L., & Scott, M. (2025) A nation unprepared: Extreme heat and the need for adaptation in the United Kingdom, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 124, 104065, ISSN 2214-6296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104065.
Hoggett, R., King, L., Lowes, R., Demski, C., & Ugalde-Loo, C. (2025) People centric policy is needed to create a clean cooling pathway for UK homes, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 167, 2025, 104045, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104045.
Britton J, Mae Minas A, Marques A C. Pourmirza Z (2021). Exploring the potential of heat as a service in decarbonization: Evidence needs and research gaps. Energy Sources.

Organisational change

Whitmarsh L, Capstick S, Moore I, Köhler J, Le Quéré C. (2020) Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision. Global Environmental Change
Hoolohan C, Mclachlan C, Jones C, Larkin A, Birch C, Mander S & Broderick J. (2021). Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace routines for flying and food?. Climate Policy.
Latter, B. and Capstick, S. (2021) Climate Emergency: UK Universities' Declarations and Their Role in Responding to Climate Change. Frontiers in Sustainability.
Latter B., Demski C., Capstick S. (2024). Wanting to be part of change but feeling overworked and disempowered: Researchers’ perceptions of climate action in UK universities. PLOS Climate 3(1): e0000322. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000322

Public engagement

Lorenzoni, I., Jordan, A., Sullivan-Thomsett, C. & Geese, L. (2025). A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events, Climate Policy, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2449416.
Demski, C. (2021) Net zero public engagement and participation: Research Note.
Player, L., Prosser M.B., A., Thorman, D., Tirion S.C, A., Whitmarsh L., Kurz, T., & Shah, P. (2023) Quantifying the importance of socio-demographic, travel-related, and psychological predictors of public acceptability of low emission zones, Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Tosun, J., Geese, L., & Lorenzoni, I. (2023) For Young and Future Generations? Insights from the Web Profiles of European Climate Pact Ambassadors, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1-13. doi:10.1017/err.2023.53
Hampton, S. & Whitmarsh, L. (2023) Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play. One Earth, Volume 6, Issue 9, 2023, Pages 1157-1172, ISSN 2590-3322, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.08.006.
Haggar, P., Whitmarsh, L., & Nash, N. (2023) A Drop in the Ocean? Fostering Water-Saving Behavior and Spillover Through Information Provision and Feedback. Environment and Behavior, 55(6-7), 520-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201371
Verfuerth, C., Demski, C., Capstick, S., Whitmarsh, L., & Poortinga, W. (2023) A people-centred approach is needed to meet net zero goals, Journal of the British Academy, 11(s4): 97–124.
Lee, S., Freer, M., Wood, R., Edelenbosch, O., Sharmina, M., Doelman, J., Van Vuuren, D., & Wilson, C. (2023). From future diets to dishes: Communicating dietary shift associated with a 1.5°C scenario for Brazil, China, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1266708. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1266708
Cherry, C., Verfuerth, C., & Demski, C. (2024). Discourses of climate inaction undermine public support for 1.5 °C lifestyles. Global Environmental Change, 87, 102875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102875
Moore, B., Geese, L., Kenny, J., Dudley, H., Jordan, A., Prados Pascual, A., Lorenzoni, I., Schaub, S., Enguer, J., & Tosun, J. (2024). Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature. WIREs Climate Change, e908. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.908

Public perceptions

Moorcroft H, Hampton S, Whitmarsh L (2025) Climate change and wealth: understanding and improving the carbon capability of the wealthiest people in the UK. PLOS Clim 4(3): e0000573. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000573
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.
Nash N, Capstick S, Whitmarsh L, Chaudhary I, Manandhar R. (2019). Perceptions of Local Environmental Issues and the Relevance of Climate Change in Nepal's Terai: Perspectives From Two Communities. Frontiers in Sociology.
Howarth C, Bryant P, Corner A, Fankhauser S, Gouldson A, Whitmarsh L & Willis R. (2019) Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19
Verfuerth, C., Henn, L., & Becker, S. (2019) Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Thorman D, Whitmarsh L, Demski C. (2020). Policy Acceptance of Low-Consumption Governance Approaches: The Effect of Social Norms and Hypocrisy. Sustainability, (3).
Whitmarsh L, Capstick S, Moore I, Köhler J, Le Quéré C. (2020) Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision. Global Environmental Change
Pohjolainen, P., Kukkonen, I., Jokinen, P., Poortinga, W., Adedayo Ogunbode, C., Böhm, G., … & Umit, R. (2021). The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.
Verfuerth, C., Gregory-Smith, D., Oates, C. J., Jones, C. R. and Alevizou, P. (2021). Reducing meat consumption at work and at home: facilitators and barriers that influence contextual spillover. Journal of Marketing Management
Isham, A., Verfuerth, C., Armstrong, A., Elf, P., Gatersleben, B., & Jackson, T. (2022) The problematic role of materialistic values in the pursuit of sustainable well-being, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Player, L., Prosser M.B., A., Thorman, D., Tirion S.C, A., Whitmarsh L., Kurz, T., & Shah, P. (2023) Quantifying the importance of socio-demographic, travel-related, and psychological predictors of public acceptability of low emission zones, Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Martin-Kerry, J.M., Graham H.M, & Lampard, P. (2023) ‘I don't really associate climate change with actual people's health’: a qualitative study in England of perceptions of climate change and its impacts on health, Public Health, Volume 219, 2023, Pages 85-90.
Poortinga, W., Demski, C. & Steentjes K. (2023) Generational differences in climate-related beliefs, risk perceptions and emotions in the UK, Communications Earth & Environment.
Tosun, J., Geese, L., & Lorenzoni, I. (2023) For Young and Future Generations? Insights from the Web Profiles of European Climate Pact Ambassadors, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1-13. doi:10.1017/err.2023.53
Haggar, P., Whitmarsh, L., & Nash, N. (2023) A Drop in the Ocean? Fostering Water-Saving Behavior and Spillover Through Information Provision and Feedback. Environment and Behavior, 55(6-7), 520-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201371
Verfuerth, C., Demski, C., Capstick, S., Whitmarsh, L., & Poortinga, W. (2023) A people-centred approach is needed to meet net zero goals, Journal of the British Academy, 11(s4): 97–124.
Poortinga, W., Whitmarsh, L., Steentjes, K., Gray, E., Thompson, S., & Brisley, R. (2023). Factors and framing effects in support for net zero policies in the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1287188. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1287188
Latter B., Demski C., Capstick S. (2024). Wanting to be part of change but feeling overworked and disempowered: Researchers’ perceptions of climate action in UK universities. PLOS Climate 3(1): e0000322. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000322
Chard, E., Bergstad, C. J., Steentjes, K., Poortinga, W., & Demski, C. (2024). Gender and cross-country differences in the determinants of sustainable diet intentions: A multigroup analysis of the UK, China, Sweden, and Brazil. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355969
Cherry, C., Verfuerth, C., & Demski, C. (2024). Discourses of climate inaction undermine public support for 1.5 °C lifestyles. Global Environmental Change, 87, 102875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102875
Kenny, J., Geese, L., Jordan A., & Lorenzoni, I. (2024), ‘A framework for classifying climate change questions used in public opinion surveys’, Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2429264

Social transformations

Transport & mobility

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
Whitmarsh L, Capstick S, Moore I, Köhler J, Le Quéré C. (2020) Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision. Global Environmental Change
Hoolohan C, Mclachlan C, Jones C, Larkin A, Birch C, Mander S & Broderick J. (2021). Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace routines for flying and food?. Climate Policy.
Player, L., Prosser M.B., A., Thorman, D., Tirion S.C, A., Whitmarsh L., Kurz, T., & Shah, P. (2023) Quantifying the importance of socio-demographic, travel-related, and psychological predictors of public acceptability of low emission zones, Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Hoolohan, C. (2024). Shifting air travel demand: a case study on enabling experimentation in surface travel. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2024.2364635

Water

Haggar, P., Whitmarsh, L., & Nash, N. (2023) A Drop in the Ocean? Fostering Water-Saving Behavior and Spillover Through Information Provision and Feedback. Environment and Behavior, 55(6-7), 520-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201371