Environmental and Energy Studies

As a culmination of the three-year research project "Changing Behaviour", the project consortium has launched MECHanisms, a practical online resource aimed at project managers working in intermediary organisations promoting change in energy behaviour, primarily on the local level. Together with their partners from various European countries, 3CSEP researchers worked on creating a toolkit that aims to provide a systematic approach to designing, implementing and evaluating energy p

EPRG researchers Aleh Cherp, Jessical Jewell and Andreas Goldthau contributed two chapters in the recently published Routledge Handbook of Energy Security, edited by Benjamin K.

Professors Brandon Anthony and Alexios Antypas of the Department of Environmental Sciences & Policy recently published an evaluation of managing human-wildlife conflict along Kruger National Park's (South Africa) western border. The problems of wildlife escaping from the park and depredating on crops and livestock in the area has had major effects on local livelihoods and is undermining the legitimacy of conservation agencies in the area.

Changing behaviour project launches MECHanisms, a practical online resource to assist managers design and improve energy behavioural change programmes (http://mechanisms.energychange.info).

Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency (IEA), delivered a public lecture on Critical Factors Changing the Future Global Energy Landscape at CEU on November 26, 2010.

Two recent European policy discussions on energy use featured input from Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Professor in CEU's Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy -- more specifically, with her research on the so-called "lock-in effect". This research is indicating that policy-makers and developers are potentially missing out on substantial long-term efficiency improvements, by focusing solely on low-hanging fruit in their approach to the environmental retro-fitting of buildings.