Transport poverty refers to the ways in which socioeconomic conditions affect everyday mobility and people’s access to transport. If someone is transport poor, it means that a person lacks mobility recourses to access work, education, health, and social networks.
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What does behavioural change mean?
Behavioural change defines a change in the behaviour of an individual or a group. This change can be temporary, long-term, or permanent. The question of behavioural change and, more generally, changing lifestyles is a key issue in the ecological transition.
Sustainability Transformation: What Does it Mean?
Photo by NOAA Transformation has become a key word in the sustainability debate. What does sustainability transformation mean? What hinders and what enables transformation? These questions triggered rich discussions in ACCTING’s second seminar, titled “Sustainability...
How values drive sustainable food choices and inclusivity towards a more just European Green Deal
Promoting sustainable food consumption choices is one of the priorities of the European Green Deal. But to understand food choices, we need to increase our understanding of values, priorities, obstacles and challenges faced by different social groups and across cultures and countries in Europe and beyond.
Can energy-efficiency measures support micro and small entrepreneurs to deal with climate change mitigation and spiralling energy costs?
The adoption of energy-efficiency measures in micro/smaller SMEs is not only important to help mitigate the crucial challenge of climate change, but also to enable the survival of the European business fabric and economy.
How can we achieve sustainable urban mobility for all? Identifying challenges and envisioning inclusive solutions
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, we all saw our cities deserted for a few weeks, without the traffic that usually engulfs and suffocates them day and night. We hoped that the crisis would represent an opportunity to rethink urban mobility, in a transition towards more sustainable alternatives.
For a Better Story of Gender+ Research: Feminist Methodologies with Professor Joni Seager
How can we better integrate a gender+ perspective into our exploration of social inequalities in the context of the climate crisis and the Green Deal? What can we learn from existing feminist methodologies about asking better questions, designing more robust methods, and refining our data analysis?
What is ‘transport poverty’? How can we achieve a more just and sustainable transport system?
Transport poverty is a problem that affects the daily lives of millions of people. If someone is transport poor, it means that they lack mobility recourses to access work, education, health, and social networks.
Access to healthy and sustainable food: a challenge for different vulnerable groups in Europe
Access to food is not equal across the world, as is common knowledge. Inequalities in food quality and access occur both between countries and regions and among people from different socioeconomic strata within the same territory. Quality here is a comprehensive...
ACCTING seminar on Feminist Methodologies
ACCTING is organising an online seminar which aims to explore the ways in which feminist methodologies will improve research, as well as policy directions and outcomes, in the context of the Green Deal and beyond. It is meant to provide practical guidance on how our...

ACCTING seminar on Feminist Methodologies
ACCTING is organising an online seminar which aims to explore the ways in which feminist methodologies will improve research, as well ... read more

Introducing ACCTING’s research lines
ACCTING aims to understand the impact of Green Deal policy initiatives on individual and collective behaviours with specific attention ... read more

What makes the ACCTING project distinctive?
In this article, we explore the project's goals and challenge, the features that make it distinctive and the difference it aims to make. read more

Launch of ACCTING: AdvanCing behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal
The new EU-funded project ACCTING, which aims to tackle inequalities exacerbated by Green Deal policies and advance behavioural change, read more
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