Consumo Sostenible en OrganizacionesEnfoques Multimétodo Para Estudiar la Conducta Proambiental en Lugares de Trabajo

  1. Garcia-Mira, Ricardo
  2. Dumitru, Adina C.
  3. Vega-Marcote, Pedro 1
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña, Espanha
Journal:
Psico

ISSN: 0103-5371

Year of publication: 2014

Issue Title: Dossiê: Psicologia Ambiental

Volume: 45

Issue: 3

Pages: 350-358

Type: Article

DOI: 10.15448/1980-8623.2014.3.18292 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Sustainable development goals

Abstract

The present paper aims at briefly presenting the LOCAW project (Low Carbon at Work), an European Union FP7-funded project which aims at advancing understanding of the barriers and drivers to sustainable lifestyles by researching the determinants of everyday practices and behaviours in the workplace. The project focuses on six large-scale organizations, occupying different positions in the sustainability debate. The multi-method approach of the project is presented, with a special emphasis on the use of back-casting scenarios as an innovative methodology that can help design sustainable change patterns in organizations. Finally, this paper will present the preliminary results of the first part of the project, which focuses on the diagnosis of everyday practices in the workplace. Both the back-casting scenarios methodology and the preliminary results will be presented by referring only to the Spanish case study of the project.

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