Objective To examine the extent to which environmental policies relevant to global climate change could be more effective if they were designed and carried out with more attention to social differences in energy use and the capacity to change in environmentally responsible ways, and thus to comply with environmental policy requirements and standards.OBJECTIVES: To examine the extent to which environmental policies relevant to global climate change could be more effective if they were designed and carried out with more attention to social differences in energy use and the capacity to change in environmentally responsible ways, and thus to comply with environmental policy requirements and standards. DESCRIPTION: The project focuses on four main issues: i) whether social exclusion is environmentally relevant; ii) the extent to which there are differences in awareness, knowledge, attitudes, behaviour and capacities to adopt alternative behaviour relevant to global climate change on the part of socially excluded groups; iii) the extent of differentiated "responsiveness" and differentiated acceptance by socially excluded groups and individuals with regard to various new measures of climate policy; iv) whether environmental policies relevant to global change could be more effective and environmentally relevant if they took the circumstances of the socially excluded into account. The focus is on household behaviour in relation to transport, household energy consumption, waste disposal and waste reduction; all are considered in relation to global climate change. Four socially excluded groups are considered: the long-term unemployed; the elderly; the working poor; foreign migrants. Because of differences in social structures, not all these groups are covered in all four countries participating in the project (Germany, Greece, Switzerland, United Kingdom), however a comparative dimension and analysis is focused on and developed in the project. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementsocial sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalitiesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changessocial sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator University of Warwick EU contribution No data Address Gibbet Hill Road Warwick Science Park CV4 7AL Coventry United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all NEA Ecologia Greece EU contribution No data Address 39,Mavromichali 10680 Athens See on map Total cost No data OEKO-INSTITUTE E.V. - INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY Germany EU contribution No data Address 165 D,Elisabethenstrasse, 55/57 64283 DARMSTADT See on map Total cost No data Panteios University of Social and Political Sciences Greece EU contribution No data Address 136,Leoforos Syggrou 17671 Athens See on map Total cost No data Synergo Switzerland EU contribution No data Address 23,Fraumünsterstrasse 8022 Zürich See on map Total cost No data