Seminar with Elisabeth Dütschke

Sufficiency-oriented lifestyles across Europe

Guildford | 21 September 2023, 1pm (BST)

To reach climate goals and to limit the overshoot of the current Western way of consumption practices, changing lifestyles plays an important role. One desirable option are sufficiency lifestyles.

Sufficiency lifestyles are defined as creating the social, infrastructural, and regulatory conditions for changing individual and collective lifestyles in a way that greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and at the same time to societal well-being is increased.

This talk presents findings from an European research project FULFILL which investigated current lifestyle patterns using qualitative and quantitative data.

Results refer to insights about different types of lifestyles as well as perceptions about sufficiency.

About

Dr Elisabeth Dütschke studied psychology, business administration and marketing. For her PhD thesis she received an award from Südwest Metall as an outstanding contribution to research. Further work experience include consulting of private and public organizations and journalism as well as university lectures. Since June 2009 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research as senior scientist and since March 2019 coordinator of the Business Unit Actors and Social Acceptance in the Transformation of the Energy System. She has been an Associate Editor at the Journal Energy Research & Social Science since 2023 and a Co-Editor of the Zeitschrift Umweltpsychologie since 2018.

Event image: courtesy of Maksim Romashkin / canva.com

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