Resources
Publications
Stephan Schwarzinger, Michael Brenner-Fliesser, Sebastian Seebauer, Giuseppe Carrus, Eugenio De Gregorio, Christian A. Klöckner, Hanna Pihkola. Lifestyle can be anything if not defined. A review of understanding and use of the lifestyle concept in sustainability studies, Heliyon, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32697
Klöckner CA, Brenner-Fliesser M, Carrus G, De Gregorio E, Löfström E, Luketina R, Niemi A, Pihkola H, Schwarzinger S, Similä L, Sokka L (2024) Climate actions on the neighbourhood level—Individual, collective, cultural, and socio-structural factors. PLOS Clim 3(11): e0000424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000424
Christian A. Klöckner, Erica Löfström, Michael Brenner-Fliesser, Claudia Winkler, Viktoria Kofler, Eugenio De Gregorio, Giuseppe Carrus (2025). Can neighbourhood interventions strengthen collective climate action? Preprint. https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/8356/
De Gregorio E, Carrus G, Klöckner CA, Löfström E, Similä L and Brenner-Fliesser M (2025) Individual, collective and contextual dimensions of sustainable lifestyle change in daily life contexts: an integrated perspective.Front. Psychol. 16:1505676. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1505676
Niemi, A., Similä, L., Pihkola, H., & Koljonen, T. (2025). ”Kyllähän se vähän yllätti” – Tiedontarpeet ja oikeudenmukaisuuden kokemukset tuulivoimasta kahdessa suomalaisessa kunnassa. Alue ja Ympäristö, 54(1), 160–180. https://doi.org/10.30663/ay.148199
Klöckner, C. A., Löfström, E., Brenner-Fliesser, M., Winkler, C., Kofler, V., De Gregorio, E., Carrus, G., Niemi, A., Pihkola, H., & Similä, L. (2025). Can neighbourhood interventions strengthen collective climate action? PLOS Climate , 4(12), Article e0000571. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000571
Deliverables
Deliverable 2.1: Lifestyle changes and sustainable transition in neighbourhoods
Deliverable 3.1: Neighbourhood Case Analysis
Deliverable 4.1: Learning process report
Media
Newspaper article, Pyhäntä, Finland – May 20, 2024, “Siikajokilaakso”, “VTT selvitti pyhäntäläisten kokemuksia ja näkemyksiä ilmastonmuutoksesta – Tulokset on nyt julkaistu” (Link to the article)
Newspaper article published after the third intervention in Macomer, Sardinia, Italy, March 2024: “L’Unione Sarda” (Link to the article)
Article on the popular science website by the Research Council of Finland – July 11, 2023: tietysti.fi, “Tutkijat etsivät keinoja osallistaa kansalaisia ilmastotoimiin” (Link)
Newspaper article, Graz, Austria – October 30, 2022: “Der Grazer”, “Umfrage im Grazer Bezirk Jakomini: Klimawandel bei 9 von 10 spürbar“ (Link to the article)
Newspaper article, Graz, Austria – November 29, 2022: “Annenpost”, “Wie sich die Klimakrise in Eggenberg auswirkt“ (Link to the article)
Newspaper article, Admont, Austria – December 2022: ” Admonter Nachrichten”, “Klimawandel in Admont kreativ anpacken und gemeinsam lernen“ (Link to the article)
Newspaper article, Pyhäntä, Finland – November 2022, “Siikajokilaakso”, “Ahdistaako ilmastonmuutos – katso myös video” (Link to the article)
Newspaper article, Myrsletta Nordre Follo, Norway, “Østlandets Bland”, “Nabolag i Ski tar miljøet på alvor – vil halvere bilparken” (Link to the article)
Presentations
Conferences
IAPS conference, July 6, 2022: “You are not alone: Neighbourhood sense of community and collective efficacy as potential boosters for high-effort behaviour change and GHG reduction”
YHYS 2022 research colloquium Messy sustainability: uncertainties in policy implementation, Workshop 1: Just transition: a pathway to future or just another buzzword? November 24-25, 2022, University of Tampere, Finland. Abstract: Case studies of wind power in Northern Finland
23rd Austrian Climate Day, Leoben, Austria, April 11-13, 2023
Sustainability Science Days, Helsinki, Finland – May 24, 2023: “Studying climate related attitudes and challenges in two Finnish municipalities – Local views and experiences related to wind turbines“.
Europe’s influential climate adaptation conference ECCA 2023, Dublin, Ireland – June 19-21, 2023: “An approach for innovative Climate Learning, Evaluation and Action in Neighbourhoods”.
Real Corp Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia – September 18-20, 2023: “How can Climate Learning be Initiated? Piloting Unconventional Interventions in Neighbourhoods”
International Conference on Environmental Mindfulness, Rome, Italy – November 13-16, 2023: “Drivers and barriers of pro-environmental behaviour: The role of individual, social and contextual factors in explaining individuals’ decisions to engage in mitigative action”
Overcoming Obstacles to Climate Change Mitigation: a cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences. International and interdisciplinary scientific conference, 23-24 May, 2024: “Climate action at the neighbourhood level – how important are individual and collective factors?”
ECEEE Summer Study, 10–15 June 2024, Center Parcs Lac d’Ailette, France, “Neighbourhoods as a seed for climate action”
28th International Conference Association People Environment Studies, July 2nd to 5th, 2024, Barcelona, Spain: “A stepwise methodology to join and support neighborhoods’ engagement and interest in climate change related processes”; “Climate action on the neighbourhood level – how individual and collective intentions to act play out in four European countries”, Book of abstracts.
33rd International Congress of Psychology, July 21 – 26, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic: “The psychology of sustainable everyday life: case studies from EU-funded projects in Italy”
Presentations in interventions
Intervention 1 in Myrsletta Nordre Follo, Norway – September 22, 2022, presentation
Intervention 1 in Driva Oppdal, Norway – October 7-8th, 2022, presentation
Intervention 2 in Pyhäntä, Finland – May 25, 2023: presentation