Motivating actions to mitigate plastic pollution.

Motivating actions to mitigate plastic pollution.

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Peer-reviewed

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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/297810

Repository DOI

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.44864

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Authors

Evans, Steve

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1757-6842

Linden, Sander van der

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-1744

Abstract

Designing effective policy interventions to motivate mitigation actions requires more realistic assumptions about human decision-making based on empirical evidence from the behavioural sciences. We therefore need to consider behavioural rather than only economic costs and benefits in policy intervention designs.

Keywords

Behavior Control, Environmental Policy, Environmental Pollutants, Environmental Pollution, Motivation, Plastics, Recycling, Solid Waste

Journal Title

Nat Commun

Journal ISSN

2041-1723
2041-1723

Volume Title

10

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12666-9

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