Drivers and Barriers of Sustainable Behaviours Among Young Generations in a Climate-Vulnerable Italian City

Apr 1, 2025 | Scientific publications

Sustainable behaviours are essential for addressing climate change, particularly as extreme weather events intensify globally. Identifying the factors that drive or hinder these behaviours is crucial for developing effective interventions. However, existing...

Climate Change Education in a Secondary School, the I-CHANGE Project Approach

Feb 17, 2025 | Scientific publications

Raising the awareness and interest of young generations for climate change phenomena and its impacts is a topic of great importance from a social and cultural standpoint. Along these lines, education plays a crucial role to meet the goals of the EU’s Green Deal...

A Methodological Approach for Enriching Activity–Travel Schedules with In-Home Activities

Feb 17, 2025 | Scientific publications

In-home activities are inevitably important parts of individuals’ daily schedules, as people spend more time working and doing various other activities (e.g., online shopping or banking) at home. However, conventional activity-based travel demand models (ABMs) only...

Going to the Zoo: A comparison of travel time ratios in 21 European cities

Feb 17, 2025 | Scientific publications

Efficient public transport is an essential component of a sustainable transport system. The travel time ratio, i.e. the public transport journey duration divided by the car journey duration of the same trip, can be used to compare the public transport system with the...

Indoor heat in Amsterdam: Comparing observed indoor air temperatures from a professional network and from a citizen science approach

Feb 17, 2025 | Scientific publications

Ongoing climate change is increasing summertime temperatures, and frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Europe, which can threaten human health. Relatively little is known about how quickly outdoor heat penetrates into residences during heatwaves. Long-term and...

Extraordinary 2021 snowstorm in Spain reveals critical threshold response to anthropogenic climate change

Feb 17, 2025 | Scientific publications

Attribution of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change (ACC) has become an increasingly important line of research in recent years. However, the potential influence of ACC on heavy snowstorms remains largely unexplored. Here we focus on studying the...