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How to Reduce Individuals' Ecological Footprint without Harming Their Well-Being: An Application to Belgium KU Leuven Ghent University
Exploring the global and local social sustainability of wind energy technologies: An application of a social impact assessment framework KU Leuven University of Antwerp Ghent University
Understanding Attitudes towards Renewable Energy Technologies and the Effect of Local Experiences KU Leuven Ghent University
The path to sustainable energy supply systems: Proposal of an integrative sustainability assessment framework KU Leuven Ghent University University of Antwerp
How the income of others affects the life satisfaction of materialists KU Leuven Ghent University
Comparing the Anamnestic Comparative Self-Assessment (ACSA) to a Conventional Happiness Question Without Anchoring KU Leuven Ghent University
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature and The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS). The Anamnestic Comparative Self-Assessment (ACSA) uses a self-anchoring rating scale to measure subjective well-being. Because of its internal frame of reference, ACSA is argued to be less influenced by cultural relativities and psychological traits. We collect survey data in Flanders that contain both a ...
How relative income affects work hours preferences KU Leuven Ghent University
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this article, we look at explanations for why people want to change their working hours. We focus on the role of income and differentiate between the effect of household income, personal income and self-perceived relative income. Using Flemish data on 1435 workers, we perform binary logistic regressions in which we compare those who are over- or underemployed with ...
The Environmental Impact of Individual Behavior: Self-Assessment Versus the Ecological Footprint KU Leuven Ghent University
© 2017, The Author(s) 2017. Are individuals able to self-assess the environmental impact of their behavior? To answer this question, we first analyze the different behavioral determinants of the ecological footprint (EF), an often used measure of an individual’s environmental impact. Second, we compare the individuals’ EF with self-assessments of their own environmental impact (self-assessed environmental sustainability [SAES]). We use survey ...
Linking individuals' ecological footprint to their subjective well-being KU Leuven Ghent University
© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Sustainable development poses a major challenge to Western societies as many of their citizens have lifestyles with resource use beyond the earth's carrying capacity. Sustainability transitions will be easier to implement if they also increase individuals' well-being. We investigate the relation between the ecological footprint and the subjective well-being at the individual level, using a questionnaire carried out in ...