Education

• Healthy cities: are cities or its citizens less healthy?
• Green cities: importance of green for quality of live, tourism, happiness
• Inclusive cities: inequality, social networks and local engagement
• Prosumers: consumers as producers of e.g. energy
• Urban-rural interactions: how cities benefit from their hinterland and vice-versa
• Spatial determinants of voting behaviour
• Agent based modelling (ABM), choice experiments, (spatial) multi-criteria analysis.

Energy conservation/Climate change
• Individual vs. collective motivations
• Financial vs. environmental interventions
• Spillover/rebound effects
• Descriptive social norms - minority behavior
• Group decision making
• Acceptance of technological innovations
• Feedback

Ethical decision-making
• Lying
• Self-interest vs. other oriented motivations in decision-making

Methods
• Experiments (lab/field), surveys, interviews, big data

• Speltheorie
• Giffen verschijnselen
• De rol van status
• Coalitieformatie
• Milieu
• Locatieproblemen
• Bezittingseffect
• Block chain en bitcoins

• A healthy future: Effects of time orientation on eating and exercising behavior
• Choosing now for later: How temporal distance influences food choice
• How the ‘future = abstract association’ affects current decision-making
• Aiming for behavior change: A construal level theory approach
• Promoting fruit consumption or preventing snack consumption? Effects of regulatory focus on health behavior
• Fun or useful? Choosing between hedonic and utilitarian products
  

• Energy transition

  • Energy communities
  • Energy justice
  • Adoption and diffusion of renewable energy and/or energy efficiency measures

• Spatial econometrics; network analysis; spatial data analysis

  • Applications using spatial econometric models based on cross-sectional or panel data
  • Applications using network analysis or spatial data analysis

• Resilient regions and cities

  • Urban and regional economic and climate resilience
  • Climate crisis and inequality interlinkages
  • Regional labor markets
  • Regional development and policy

• The role of various forms of social influences (e.g., descriptive norms, social identity, peer pressure) in decision making
• How decision making is influenced by heuristics, and if decisions can be considered biased
• Links between contextual factors and (consumer) inferences / choice behavior
• Health economic evaluations of different types interventions (e.g., nutrition campaigns, new drug treatments, etc.)
• Neuroeconomics: How do insights from brain research help us understand decisions?

• Food systems: What are the social, economic and environmental impacts of urban food systems?
• Sustainable consumption: Cities are consumption hotspots – how can they contribute to sustainable development from a consumption perspective?
• Environmental inequality: Are vulnerable social groups more affected by environmental pollution?
• Bioeconomy: Identification of urban-rural cooperations to increase renewable resource use and/or reduce GHG emissions
• Urban commoning: What are alternative urban provisioning systems and how are they governed?

• Social tipping points
• Complex systems and sustainability
• Water-energy-food nexus
• Climate-smart cities
• Urban socio-ecological systems
• Agent-based models
• Diffusion of innovations
• Irrigation

Food systems transformation
• What are the places to intervene in urban food systems?
• What is the role of social tipping points?
• What is the interaction between micro-level decision-making and macro-level system transition?

Pro-environmental decision-making
• Under which circumstances do internal values/worldviews guide decision-making?
• How can pro-environmental values be activated?
• How do internal values and external conditions interact in decision-making?

Methods
• (Choice) experiments, surveys, interviews