OECD Conference on Household Behaviour and Environmental Policy

Background Papers

This Conference organised by the Environment Directorate took place on 3-4 June 2009 in the OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France. This conference was free of charge. Delegates from OECD countries joined this conference.

Meeting venue    

OECD Conference Centre
2 Rue André Pascal
75116 Paris
France

• Agenda
• Practical information: www.oecd.org/conferencecentre (when you arrive at the Forum, you need to present your identity card and/or passport to obtain your Conference badge. A few internet connections are available for participants at the venue.)

Presentations

Session 1

• Residential Energy Efficiency (Milan Ščasný & Jan Urban, Charles University Prague, Environment Center)
• Residential Demand for Renewable Energy: Results from the web-survey (Bengt Kriström, CERE, Sweden)
• Discussion of the Survey Reports on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Ivan Diaz-Rainey, EUI)
• Household Behaviour and Energy Use (Linn Stengård, Swedish Energy Agency)
  

Session 2

• Organic Food Consumption: Results and Policy Implications (Stefano Boccaletti, Istituto di Economia Agro-alimentare, Uniersità Cattolica, Piacenza, Italy)
• Organic Food Consumption (Catherine Durham,Oregon State University)

Session 3

• Waste generation (Dr. Kwang-Yim KIM, Senior Research Fellow, KEI)
• Waste Prevention and Recycling: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis (Ida Ferrara, Department of Economics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Waste generation, recycling and prevention – reflection (Vincent Linderhof)
  

Session 4

• Determinants of Residential Water Demand in OECD Countries (R. Quentin Grafton, Australia)
• Determinants of domestic Water Use: Cross-Country Analysis and Policy Implications (Joachim Schleich)
• Determinants of Domestic Water Use (Jong-Ryool KIM, Ministry of Environment, Korea)
• Residential Water Use: water conservation and water quality (O. Beaumais & A. Briand, CARE, Université de Rouen, K. Millock, CNRS, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, C. Nauges, LERNA-INRA & Toulouse School of Economics, France)
  

Session 5

• 2008 OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour: transport behaviour (Alejandro Guevara-Sanginés & José Alberto Lara-Pulido, Universidad Iberoamericana, México)
• The Determinants of Car Ownership and Use (Nick Johnstone, Ysé Serret and Clotilde Bureau)
• Discussion of papers on personal transport (Joyce Dargay, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, U.K.)
  

Session 6

• Gender Issues (Bente Halvorsen & Hanne Marit Dalen, Statistics Norway)
• Gender differences in environmental related behaviour (María A. García-Valiñas University of Oviedo, Spain)
• Gender, energy use and policy (Maria Alm, Department of System Analysis, Swedish Energy Agency)
  

Session 7

• Changing human behaviour (Kirsten Reeves, Head of the Sustainable Behaviours Unit, Defra)
• The Households and the Environment Survey (John A. Marshall, Statistics Canada)
  

Session 8

• Market Research for Eco-Innovation: Lessons from Residential Energy (Prof. Dr. Rolf Wüstenhagen, Director, Institute for Economy and the Environment (IWÖ-HSG), Good Energies Professor for Management of Renewable Energies, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
• The Adoption of Eco-Innovations by Households in Germany (Christian Loewe, Federal Environment Agency, Germany)
• Initiatives to stimulate Eco-Innovations concerning Households - Experience in Japan (Makoto Kutsukake, Ministry of the Environment, Japan)
• Environmental attitudes, knowledge and behaviour (Alison Park, National Center for Social Research, U.K.)
• A case for shaping tomorrow’s political economy of environmental issues in today’s schools (Andreas Schleicher, OECD)
  

Background papers

• Household Behaviour and the Environment: Reviewing the evidence
• OECD Project: Household and Environmental policy
• Comparison of survey results with other secondary data and methodology