Environmental sustainability and gynaecological surgery: Which factors influence behaviour? An interview study

Objective: To assess the various factors that influence environmentally sustainable behaviour in gynaecological surgery and examine the differences between gynaecologists and residents. Design: An interview study. Setting: Academic and non-academic hospitals in the Netherlands. Population: Gynaecologists (n = 10) and residents (n = 6)....

Changing civil servants’ behaviour concerning the opening of governmental data.: Evaluating the effect of a game by comparing civil servants’ intentions before and after a game intervention

Open data policies are increasingly being adopted by governments. However, civil servants find it challenging to comply with open data policies. Gaming can help civil servants to practise opening data and can change their behaviour to support the opening of more data. In this article, the effect of playing a game is evaluated in an experiment...

Use the user: Achieving energy reduction of an office building by activating pro-environmental behaviour of office users

The Dutch government claims that upgrading office buildings to an energy label C building is enough to reduce the environmental footprint of companies for now. Research has shown that when a building receives an energy label, it does not mean that the operational energy use of the building is in line with the received energy label; this results...