CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR SESSION AT ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (with
IBG) ANNUAL CONFERENCE (26-28 August 2009, Manchester).
We are inviting contributions for a Planning and Environment Research
Group
(PERG) and Postgraduate Research Group (PRG) sponsored session on ‘The
use
of innovative methodological approaches to better understand pro-
environmental behaviour’.
Irrespective of large sections of the public holding pro-environmental
attitudes
or values, associated shifts to pro-environmental patterns of
behaviour have
not been forthcoming. There is thus a need to think more carefully and
critically about how to encourage and facilitate pro-environmental
behaviour,
a challenge for which innovative methodological approaches hold much
potential. This conference session invites papers that explore the
application
of innovative methodological approaches to these issues. Methodological
approaches, in this sense, may themselves be innovative (for example
the use
of technological innovations such as wikis or blogs, reflexive
diaries, or action
research techniques), or may instead be innovative applications of
existing
methodological approaches to this area (for example mixed methods,
participant observation, or narrative analysis). We are particularly
interested
in those methodological approaches that are multi or interdisciplinary
in
nature. What is vital, however, is that the approach makes an original
contribution to understandings of pro-environmental behaviour.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to Louise Reid,
University of Aberdeen ([log in to unmask]) and Tom Hargreaves,
University
of East Anglia ([log in to unmask]) before the 6th February 2009.
We would also encourage applications from postgraduate and early career
researchers.
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