The increasing amount of solid household waste is perceived as a problem in urgent need of solution in all industrialized countries. In this article the relation between household waste production and consumption styles is assessed. The popular hypothesis that the growth in household waste...

We propose a conceptual framework for understanding the (lack of) energy saving efforts of private households based on Bandura's (1986) social cognitive theory. Results from applying this framework on a sample of Danish private electricity consumers are presented and it is concluded (a) that...

Newspapers, book clubs, telephone services and many other subscription services are often marketed to new customers by means of a free or substantially discounted trial period. This article evaluates this method as a means to promote commuting by public transport in a field experiment and based...