Research Papers

Sharon A. Shewmake, Abigail Okrent, Lanka Thabrew, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2015. “Predicting Consumer Demand Responses to Carbon Labels”. Ecological Economics 119: 168-180.

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2015. “Beyond Gridlock”. Colum. Envtl. L.J. 40: 217-303. Full Text

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Kaitlin T. Raimi. 2015. “Climate Change: Leveraging Legacy”. Ecology L.Q. 42: 139-170. Full Text

Amanda R. Carrico, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Paul C. Stern, and Thomas Dietz. 2015. “US Climate Policy Needs Behavioural Science”. Nature Climate Change 5: 177-179.

Heather B. Truelove, Amanda R. Carrico, Elke U. Weber, Kaitlin T. Raimi, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2014. “Positive and Negative Spillover of Pro-environmental Behavior: An Integrative Review and Theoretical Framework”. Global Environmental Change 29: 127–138.

Jonathan M. Gilligan and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2014. “Accounting for Political Opportunity Costs in Climate Instrument Choice”. Va. Envtl. L.J. 32: 1-26. Full Text

Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2014. “The Emergence of Private Environmental Governance”. Envtl. L. Rep. 44: 10125-10135 revised and reprinted as “The Implications of Private Environmental Governance”. Cornell Law Review Online 99: 117-139. Full Text

Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2013. “Private Environmental Governance”. Cornell L. Rev. 99: 129-199 (selected for inclusion in 2014-2015 Land Use and Environmental Law Review as one of the six best environmental law articles of the year). Full Text

Amanda R. Carrico, Micajah Spoden, Ken A. Wallston, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2013. “The Environmental Cost of Misinformation: Why the Recommendation to Use Warm Water for Handwashing is Problematic”. Int’l J. of Consumer Studies 37: 433.

Michael P. Vandenbergh, J.B. Ruhl, and Jim Rossi. 2012. “Introduction — Supply and Demand: Barriers to a New Energy Future”. Vand. L. Rev. 65: 1447-1453 (symposium). Full Text

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Jim Rossi. 2012. “Good for You, Bad for Us: The Financial Disincentive for Net Demand Reduction”. Vand. L. Rev. 65: 1527-1564 (symposium). Full Text

Mark A. Cohen and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2012. “The Potential Role of Carbon Labeling in a Green Economy”. Energy Economics 34: S53-S63 (symposium). Full Text

Grant D. Jacobsen, Matthew J. Kotchen, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2012. “The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand”. European Econ. Rev. 56: 946-960. Full Text

Kevin A. Stack and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2011. “The One Percent Problem”. Colum. L. Rev. 111: 1385-1443 (selected for inclusion in 2013-2014 Land Use and Environmental Law Review as one of the six best environmental law articles of the year). Full Text

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Thomas Dietz, and Paul C. Stern. 2011. “Time to Try Carbon Labelling”. Nature Climate Change 1: 4-6.

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Amanda R. Carrico, and Lisa Bressman. 2011. “Regulation in the Behavioral Era”. Minn. L. Rev. 95: 715-781. Full Text

Amanda R. Carrico, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Paul C. Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Thomas Dietz, and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2011. “Energy and Climate Change:  Key Lessons for Implementing the Behavioral Wedge”. Geo. Wash. J. Energy & Envtl. L. 2: 61-67 (symposium).

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Paul C. Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Thomas Dietz and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2010. “Implementing the Behavioral Wedge: Designing and Adopting Effective Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs”. Envtl. L. Rep. 40: 10547-10554 (symposium)(reprinted as a “Summer Reading” selection in the Environmental Forum). Full Text

Paul C. Stern, Gerald T. Gardner, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Thomas Dietz, and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2010. “Design Principles for Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs”. Envtl. Sci. & Technol. 44: 4847-4848.

Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Jonathan M. Gilligan, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2010. “Energy Efficiency Merits More than a Nudge”. Science 328: 308 (Letter).

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Mark A. Cohen. 2010. “Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage”. N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 18: 221-292. Full Text

Jonathan M. Gilligan, Thomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Paul C. Stern, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2010. “The Behavioral Wedge: Reducing Greenhouse Gas by Individuals and Households”. Significance 7: 17-20.

Amanda R. Carrico, Paul Padgett, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jonathan M. Gilligan, and Ken A. Wallston. 2009. “Costly myths: an analysis of idling beliefs and behavior in personal motor vehicles”. Energy Policy 37: 2881-2888.

Thomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Paul C. Stern, and Michael P. Vandenbergh. 2009. “Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 18452–18456. Full Text PresentationSupporting Information

Gerald T. Gardner and Paul C. Stern. 2008. “The Short List: The Most Effective Actions U.S. Households Can Take to Curb Climate Change”. Environment 50: 13-24. Full Text

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jack Barkenbus, and Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2008. “Individual Carbon Emissions: The Low-Hanging Fruit”. UCLA Law Review 55: 1701-1758. Full Text

Paul C. Stern. 2008. “Environmentally significant behavior in the home”. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour. Ed. A. Lewis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, pp. 363-382.

Michael P. Vandenbergh and Anne C. Steinemann. 2007. “The Carbon-Neutral Individual”. New York University Law Review 82: 1673-1745. Full Text

Jonathan M. Gilligan. 2006. “Flexibility, clarity, and legitimacy: Considerations for managing nanotechnology risks”. Environ. Law Reporter 36: 10,924–10,930.

Gerald T. Gardner and Paul C. Stern. 2002. Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Second Edition. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.

Paul C. Stern. 2002. “Changing behavior in households and communities: What have we learned?”. New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures. Eds. Dietz, T., and Stern, P.C. Washington: National Academy Press, pp. 201-211.

Paul C. Stern. 2000. “A coherent theory of environmentally significant behavior”. Journal of Social Issues 56 (3): 407-424.

 

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