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Environment and human behaviour
 Understanding the interaction between human behaviour and technology is a key to making policy work and is a central theme for social science research on sustainable energy options. This was one of the themes for the Research Priorities Board's Environment and Human Behaviour New Opportunities Programme. Meeting the challenge over the long term, say up to 2050, will require input from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from psychology to control engineering.
The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) is based at the University of East Anglia under the direction of Professor Kerry Turner. CSERGE is a leading interdisciplinary research centre in the field of environmental and sustainable development, linking natural and social science theories, tools and methods. CSERGE uses social science analysis as a link between existing scientific knowledge and policy guidance, with the aim of mitigating environmental problems in both developed and developing economies. The Programme on Environmental Decision Making (PEDM), for instance, aims to understand how the decisions which effect environmental outcomes are made, and how these decisions can be informed by everyone whose interests are at stake, and shaped by means that are socially just, efficient and effective. The major themes of this ESRC programme are: multi-level governance and environmental policy integration; social capital, equity and justice; and innovation in decision-support tools and methods.
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