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Susie Moloney
School of Global Urban and Social Studies and the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia

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Journal article
Published: 19 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Governments commit substantial time and resources engaging individuals and households to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These approaches, based largely upon behaviour change theories, have been criticised for their limited reach and effectiveness by practice theorists who have offered an alternative approach, broadening the focus beyond individuals. While practice theory has provided valuable insights into the energy consuming activities of households it has gained limited traction as a way to analyse and inform government practices and policy making. We address this by applying a practice lens to climate change community engagement practices performed by Australian local governments. Drawing on 29 interviews with practitioners and analysis of 37 Australian local government climate strategies, we examine the bundle of practices that constitute climate change community engagement: recruitment, engagement and evaluation. We consider how these practices are situated vis-a-vis other climate governance practices (regulation, service delivery, infrastructure provision and advocacy) as well as internal local government processes. Using a practice lens reveals the weaknesses in current engagement approaches which we contend are limiting efficacy. We draw upon Spurling et al.’s conceptualisation of re-crafting, re-integrating and substituting practices to consider how climate change community engagement practices might be reconfigured to improve their effectiveness.

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David Meiklejohn; Susie Moloney; Sarah Bekessy. Applying a Practice Lens to Local Government Climate Change Governance: Rethinking Community Engagement Practices. Sustainability 2021, 13, 995 .

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David Meiklejohn, Susie Moloney, Sarah Bekessy. Applying a Practice Lens to Local Government Climate Change Governance: Rethinking Community Engagement Practices. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):995.

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David Meiklejohn; Susie Moloney; Sarah Bekessy. 2021. "Applying a Practice Lens to Local Government Climate Change Governance: Rethinking Community Engagement Practices." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 995.

Journal article
Published: 16 December 2020 in Cities
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This paper examines the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) initiative in Melbourne and frames this as an experiment in urban resilience governance and planning. We respond to the call from urban resilience scholars to consider the 5Ws (who, what, where, when and why?) of resilience and consider what this means for reframing urban resilience implementation. Melbourne is one of the first wave of 33 cities involved in 100RC and the release of the 2016 Strategy is the first attempt at urban resilience governance and planning in this city. We examine its role in mobilizing urban resilience reflecting on the 5Ws and also the ‘how’, as a governance experiment. With no metropolitan mandate and within a highly fragmented governing context, we develop an analytical framework to assess the 100RC Melbourne initiative identifying a set of conditions for transformative urban resilience implementation incorporating four dimensions – governance and institutional settings (how); inclusions/exclusions (who); framing and purpose (why and what); and system boundaries and interventions (where and when). We reflect on how urban resilience has been framed and adapted within this initiative and the extent to which this process of urban resilience implementation may have the capacity to influence, disrupt or change mainstream urban policy and planning frameworks. We highlight the institution building role the 100RC is playing by mediating between, and connecting, actors, sectors, and interests. We discuss the prospects for shaping a more integrated and inclusive mode of urban governance and resilience planning, a need which has become particularly acute in the context of the shock and ongoing stressor of COVID 19. We conclude by arguing that while experiments such as the 100RC initiative can demonstrate new ways of working collaboratively, explicit attention must be paid to the sets of conditions required to mobilize transformative change in urban resilience implementation.

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Susie Moloney; Andreanne Doyon. The Resilient Melbourne experiment: Analyzing the conditions for transformative urban resilience implementation. Cities 2020, 110, 103017 .

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Susie Moloney, Andreanne Doyon. The Resilient Melbourne experiment: Analyzing the conditions for transformative urban resilience implementation. Cities. 2020; 110 ():103017.

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Susie Moloney; Andreanne Doyon. 2020. "The Resilient Melbourne experiment: Analyzing the conditions for transformative urban resilience implementation." Cities 110, no. : 103017.

Journal article
Published: 06 December 2019 in Sustainability
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The idea that climate change adaptation is best leveraged at the local scale is a well-institutionalized script in both research and formal governance. This idea is based on the argument that the local scale is where climate change impacts are “felt” and experienced. However, sustainable and just climate futures require transformations in systems, norms, and cultures that underpin and reinforce our unsustainable practices and development pathways, not just “local” action. Governance interventions are needed to catalyse such shifts, connecting multilevel and multiscale boundaries of knowledge, values, levels and organizational remits. We critically reflect on current adaptation governance processes in Victoria, Australia and the Gothenburg region, Sweden to explore whether regional-scale governance can provide just as important leverage for adaptation as local governance, by identifying and addressing intersecting gaps and challenges in adaptation at local levels. We suggest that regional-scale adaptation offers possibilities for transformative change because they can identify, connect, and amplify small-scale (local) wins and utilize this collective body of knowledge to challenge and advocate for unblocking stagnated, institutionalized policies and practices, and support transformative change.

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Mikael Granberg; Karyn Bosomworth; Susie Moloney; Ann-Catrin Kristianssen; Hartmut Fünfgeld. Can Regional-Scale Governance and Planning Support Transformative Adaptation? A Study of Two Places. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6978 .

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Mikael Granberg, Karyn Bosomworth, Susie Moloney, Ann-Catrin Kristianssen, Hartmut Fünfgeld. Can Regional-Scale Governance and Planning Support Transformative Adaptation? A Study of Two Places. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (24):6978.

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Mikael Granberg; Karyn Bosomworth; Susie Moloney; Ann-Catrin Kristianssen; Hartmut Fünfgeld. 2019. "Can Regional-Scale Governance and Planning Support Transformative Adaptation? A Study of Two Places." Sustainability 11, no. 24: 6978.

Conference paper
Published: 18 December 2018 in Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience
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This paper examines the Rockerfeller Foundations 100 Resilient Cities initiative in Melbourne and frames this as an experiment in urban resilience governance and planning. Drawing on sustainability transitions and urban low carbon experimentation literature (Bulkeley et al 2011; Evans et al 2016; Sengers et al 2016), the necessity to foreground the politics of urban transitioning is highlighted (Luque-Ayala et al 2018). This draws attention to questions of: what it means to be low carbon (and resilient); what and who is involved in the transition; how does the transition unfold and how would we recognise a transition when we see it? Melbourne is one of the first wave of 32 cities involved in 100RC and the release of the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (2016) is the first attempt at resilience planning in this city which is seen as “a starting point that brings together individuals and organisations critical to the resilience of Melbourne and its diverse communities (www.resilientmelbourne.com.au). We examine its role in mobilizing ‘urban resilience transitions’ reflecting on the what, who and how of this as a governance experiment. With no metropolitan mandate and located in the City of Melbourne office, we examine the relationship between the 100RC Melbourne initiative and other key local, metropolitan and state climate change policies and planning strategies. Through this analysis we reveal the extent to which resilience thinking is influencing (and transforming) mainstream planning, how urban resilience has been framed and adapted as the 100RC Melbourne initiative has evolved and the prospects for a more integrated and inclusive mode of urban governance and resilience planning.

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Susie Moloney. The Resilient Melbourne Experiment: mobilising transitions in urban resilience governance and planning? Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience 2018, 1 .

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Susie Moloney. The Resilient Melbourne Experiment: mobilising transitions in urban resilience governance and planning? Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience. 2018; ():1.

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Susie Moloney. 2018. "The Resilient Melbourne Experiment: mobilising transitions in urban resilience governance and planning?" Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience , no. : 1.

Original articles
Published: 08 May 2018 in European Planning Studies
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As we witness increasing numbers and range of low carbon experiments, attention inevitably turns to how they are sustained and whether they can generate more systemic change in carbon-related consumption. This paper responds to the ‘spatial turn’ in socio-technical transitions, and the ‘practice turn’ in social theory to consider the role of intermediary organizations in potential shifts from experiments to institutional arrangements favouring transitions. Through the example of Climate Change Alliances in Victoria, Australia, the paper examines how such intermediary organizations seek to experiment and in so doing contribute towards institution building. With a focus on the interstitial spaces between local authorities, regional firms, agencies, and state governments we speculate on the prospects for systemic change given the resources, positioning and social strategies of the Alliances as intermediary institution builders.

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Ralph Horne; Susie Moloney. Urban low carbon transitions: institution-building and prospects for interventions in social practice. European Planning Studies 2018, 27, 336 -354.

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Ralph Horne, Susie Moloney. Urban low carbon transitions: institution-building and prospects for interventions in social practice. European Planning Studies. 2018; 27 (2):336-354.

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Ralph Horne; Susie Moloney. 2018. "Urban low carbon transitions: institution-building and prospects for interventions in social practice." European Planning Studies 27, no. 2: 336-354.

Book chapter
Published: 15 March 2018 in Rethinking Urban Transitions
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Susie Moloney; Ralph Horne. Reconfiguring spatial boundaries and institutional practices. Rethinking Urban Transitions 2018, 109 -128.

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Susie Moloney, Ralph Horne. Reconfiguring spatial boundaries and institutional practices. Rethinking Urban Transitions. 2018; ():109-128.

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Susie Moloney; Ralph Horne. 2018. "Reconfiguring spatial boundaries and institutional practices." Rethinking Urban Transitions , no. : 109-128.

Chapter
Published: 21 February 2018 in The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets
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Local governments are at the forefront of responding to climate change in developing risk assessments and mitigation and adaptation strategies. In the Australian context, local government plans and strategies are emerging, however the extent to which municipalities are planning effectively for climate change and whether they are delivering on outcomes is difficult to assess. While there are a number of frameworks for monitoring, evaluating and reporting climate change adaptation and urban resilience, very few have been implemented at the local scale. This paper will present a case study from a group of councils in metropolitan Melbourne who have collaborated to develop a ‘fit-for-purpose’ framework to track how well they are adapting to climate change and to improve their resilience. The project process, framework design, indicators and pilot implementation phase will be outlined including an analysis of the challenges and issues that emerged in developing and implementing an approach to monitoring and evaluation. We seek to contribute to the gap in knowledge around ‘doing adaptation’ in particular how we can monitor and evaluate progress. In the post Paris climate policy context, much more attention is needed on how we can better understand the “actual experience of adaptation” which broadly asks “are we adapting”? (Ford and King in Mitig Adapt Strat Glob Change 20:505–526, 2015) and in the case of the particular Australian case study presented in this paper, the focus is on how can we assess ‘How Well Are We Adapting?’

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Susie Moloney; Heather McClaren. Designing a ‘Fit-for-Purpose’ Approach to Tracking Progress on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Learning from Local Governments in Australia. The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets 2018, 67 -90.

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Susie Moloney, Heather McClaren. Designing a ‘Fit-for-Purpose’ Approach to Tracking Progress on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Learning from Local Governments in Australia. The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets. 2018; ():67-90.

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Susie Moloney; Heather McClaren. 2018. "Designing a ‘Fit-for-Purpose’ Approach to Tracking Progress on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Learning from Local Governments in Australia." The Interrelationship Between Financial and Energy Markets , no. : 67-90.

Chapter
Published: 28 October 2017 in Urban Sustainability Transitions
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Sustainability under a changing climate requires transitioning away from institutionalised processes, norms and cultures that underpin and reproduce unsustainable practices and development. The volume and diversity of actors, and the closeness and density of interactions and interrelationships, make urban transitions complex, contested and dynamic, challenging established management practices, institutions and governance. Therefore, enabling sustainability transitions requires social processes of adaptive, if not transformative, change and learning, facilitated by improved capacities for working across diverse forms of jurisdiction, scale, knowledge, organisations, landscapes and institutions. Recognition of the challenges inherent in these issues has led to arguments for new forms of governance, such as Transition Management. The dynamic relations between niche and regime have been identified as requiring further analytical attention. In our research, we have identified ‘boundary organisations’ as operating in this space as they work to enable energy and natural resource transitions in Victoria. This paper explores what we are learning about and from these organisations in enabling some of the conditions considered important in the governance of transitions, such as experimentation, long-term thinking and learning by doing across multiple boundaries.

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Susie Moloney; Karyn Bosomworth; Brian Coffey. ‘Transitions in the Making’: The Role of Regional Boundary Organisations in Mobilising Sustainability Transitions Under a Changing Climate. Urban Sustainability Transitions 2017, 91 -108.

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Susie Moloney, Karyn Bosomworth, Brian Coffey. ‘Transitions in the Making’: The Role of Regional Boundary Organisations in Mobilising Sustainability Transitions Under a Changing Climate. Urban Sustainability Transitions. 2017; ():91-108.

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Susie Moloney; Karyn Bosomworth; Brian Coffey. 2017. "‘Transitions in the Making’: The Role of Regional Boundary Organisations in Mobilising Sustainability Transitions Under a Changing Climate." Urban Sustainability Transitions , no. : 91-108.

Journal article
Published: 16 June 2017 in Sustainability
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Resilience is a multi-faceted concept frequently used across a wide range of disciplines, practices, and sectors. There is a growing recognition of the utility of resilience as a bridging concept that can facilitate inter-and transdisciplinary approaches to tackle complexities inherent in decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Such conditions are common in urban planning, infrastructure planning, asset management, emergency planning, crisis management, and development processes where systemic interdependencies and interests at stake influence decisions and outcomes. A major challenge that can undermine the use of resilience for guiding planning activities is the value-laden and contested nature of the concept that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Because resilience is context-specific and generally depends on local aspirations, this issue can be partially tackled by adopting participatory approaches for the conceptualization of resilience. This paper provides an example of how co-design methods can be employed for conceptualizing resilience. The Structured Interview Matrix was used as a technique to facilitate discussions among a diverse group of researchers and practitioners attending the International Workshop on Tools and Indicators for Assessing Urban Resilience. Participants deliberated on issues related to constituent elements of urban resilience, including its position vis-

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Ayyoob Sharifi; Lorenzo Chelleri; Cate Fox-Lent; Stelios Grafakos; Minal Pathak; Marta Olazabal; Susie Moloney; Lily Yumagulova; Yoshiki Yamagata. Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1032 .

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Ayyoob Sharifi, Lorenzo Chelleri, Cate Fox-Lent, Stelios Grafakos, Minal Pathak, Marta Olazabal, Susie Moloney, Lily Yumagulova, Yoshiki Yamagata. Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (6):1032.

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Ayyoob Sharifi; Lorenzo Chelleri; Cate Fox-Lent; Stelios Grafakos; Minal Pathak; Marta Olazabal; Susie Moloney; Lily Yumagulova; Yoshiki Yamagata. 2017. "Conceptualizing Dimensions and Characteristics of Urban Resilience: Insights from a Co-Design Process." Sustainability 9, no. 6: 1032.

Journal article
Published: 14 July 2015 in Urban Climate
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This paper presents a critical review of multi-level climate governance and adaptive capacity building in the context of Melbourne, Australia. The role of local government is highlighted as significant within the Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2013) and it is recognised that the state government must work in partnership with local municipalities and communities to effectively respond to the impacts of climate change. This paper reflects on the characteristics of institutional responses to climate change and the extent to which local government ‘climate change alliances’ constitute an emergent and effective form of adaptive and integrative governance. The analysis draws on a review of recent literature and government reports focusing on local scale adaptation in Victoria as well as qualitative data from interviews with local government alliances. The traditionally weak institutional architecture at the local scale in Australia creates a significant challenge in adaptive governance for climate change. The research highlights the current and potential role of regional alliances to overcome structural, institutional and political obduracies as evidence of progress in building adaptive capacity at the local government and community scale.

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Susie Moloney; Hartmut Fünfgeld. Emergent processes of adaptive capacity building: Local government climate change alliances and networks in Melbourne. Urban Climate 2015, 14, 30 -40.

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Susie Moloney, Hartmut Fünfgeld. Emergent processes of adaptive capacity building: Local government climate change alliances and networks in Melbourne. Urban Climate. 2015; 14 ():30-40.

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Susie Moloney; Hartmut Fünfgeld. 2015. "Emergent processes of adaptive capacity building: Local government climate change alliances and networks in Melbourne." Urban Climate 14, no. : 30-40.

Book review
Published: 03 July 2015 in Urban Policy and Research
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Susie Moloney. The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods: Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities. Urban Policy and Research 2015, 33, 1 -3.

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Susie Moloney. The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods: Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities. Urban Policy and Research. 2015; 33 (3):1-3.

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Susie Moloney. 2015. "The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods: Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities." Urban Policy and Research 33, no. 3: 1-3.

Journal article
Published: 27 February 2015 in Sustainability
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Climate change mitigation remains a contested political and policy issue nationally in Australia. Nevertheless, Australian cities have been actively engaging with low carbon policy for well over a decade and numerous actions and programs have resulted. A question arises as to whether such initiatives can amount to a transition; a systemic change from one dominant fossil-fuel based socio-technical regime, to another, fossil-free based socio-technical regime. In this paper, we review the critical literature on low carbon governance and socio-technical transitions and present a set of criteria by which we propose it is possible to assess the emergence of and/or progress towards low carbon urban transition. We then apply this approach to a case study. The paper presents findings from a review of low carbon initiatives in Australia with a particular focus on Melbourne, Victoria exploring the policy context in which these initiatives and responses have emerged, the typical approaches adopted and the implications for urban change and governance. We examine the roles of, and relationships between, different levels of government, climate change alliances, community/environmental organisations and other actors, and assess progress of the urban low carbon transition. In so doing, we identify significant shortcomings and policy disconnects which we argue are limiting progress towards a low carbon future in Victoria.

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Susie Moloney; Ralph Horne. Low Carbon Urban Transitioning: From Local Experimentation to Urban Transformation? Sustainability 2015, 7, 2437 -2453.

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Susie Moloney, Ralph Horne. Low Carbon Urban Transitioning: From Local Experimentation to Urban Transformation? Sustainability. 2015; 7 (3):2437-2453.

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Susie Moloney; Ralph Horne. 2015. "Low Carbon Urban Transitioning: From Local Experimentation to Urban Transformation?" Sustainability 7, no. 3: 2437-2453.

Journal article
Published: 04 March 2014 in Environmental Policy and Governance
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This paper contributes to a growing body of literature highlighting the limitations of behaviour change and the emergence of a social practice approach to reframe responses to escalating resource consumption. Drawing insights from interviews with Australian households and workshops with behaviour change practitioners, we demonstrate how the ‘Going Green’ discourse, which focuses on targeting individuals to participate in ‘easy’ sustainability actions, overlooks the majority of consumption implicated in everyday practices. This leaves unchallenged the complex ways in which our lives are becoming more resource intensive. We argue for an ontological framing of social change underpinned by theories of social practice. Rather than considering policies, regulations and infrastructures involving urban form, housing, transport and infrastructure provision as ‘external factors’ separate from behaviour, practice theories accord them integral status in the constitution of social order and change. This represents a more challenging agenda for practitioners and governments in shifting and transforming everyday life. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Susie Moloney; Yolande Strengers. ‘Going Green’?: The Limitations of Behaviour Change Programmes as a Policy Response to Escalating Resource Consumption. Environmental Policy and Governance 2014, 24, 94 -107.

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Susie Moloney, Yolande Strengers. ‘Going Green’?: The Limitations of Behaviour Change Programmes as a Policy Response to Escalating Resource Consumption. Environmental Policy and Governance. 2014; 24 (2):94-107.

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Susie Moloney; Yolande Strengers. 2014. "‘Going Green’?: The Limitations of Behaviour Change Programmes as a Policy Response to Escalating Resource Consumption." Environmental Policy and Governance 24, no. 2: 94-107.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 2010 in Energy Policy
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Transitioning to low carbon communities requires an understanding of community practices and resultant emissions, as well as the technologies, infrastructures and institutions associated with and accessed by communities. Moreover, it requires an understanding of the connections between these integrated system components, its dynamics, a defined transition and potential ‘levers’ involved in ‘transitioning’. This paper accepts the notion that ‘levers’ include programmes designed to achieve practice or behaviour change in households which result in less carbon intensive lifestyles, and focuses on the factors that shape human behaviour and influence householder energy consumption. Research to date by the authors and others indicates that a comprehensive socio-technical framework that considers both individual psychological factors as well as the systems, standards and norms under which individuals operate is fundamental to the development of successful strategies to shift towards low carbon communities. A database has been compiled of over one hundred local programmes aimed at realising carbon neutral communities across Australia largely through approaches to behaviour change. This paper presents the findings of an analysis of these programmes, particularly with regard to the extent to which they take account of a socio-technical framework or understanding of domestic consumption behaviours and whether they are aware of or aim to influence changing standards and expectations around consumption practices within the home. While a number of exemplary community-based programmes adopt an integrated approach to addressing both technical and behavioural dimensions in the shift to low carbon communities, it was found that most fail to take sufficient account of the systems, standards and norms shaping consumption. Conclusions include directions for policy and programme design based on the study findings.

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Susie Moloney; Ralph E. Horne; John Fien. Transitioning to low carbon communities—from behaviour change to systemic change: Lessons from Australia. Energy Policy 2010, 38, 7614 -7623.

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Susie Moloney, Ralph E. Horne, John Fien. Transitioning to low carbon communities—from behaviour change to systemic change: Lessons from Australia. Energy Policy. 2010; 38 (12):7614-7623.

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Susie Moloney; Ralph E. Horne; John Fien. 2010. "Transitioning to low carbon communities—from behaviour change to systemic change: Lessons from Australia." Energy Policy 38, no. 12: 7614-7623.