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In this third and last episode, Impact Café talks about the individual behavioural changes during the intelligent lockdown. How can the government influence the behavioural changes that are now contributing to reducing the corona crisis and will later have a positive effect on the climate crisis?

A conversation with Lars Tummers

We’ll have a conversation with Lars Tummers, professor at the Utrecht School of Governance. His research focusses on public management and behavioural changes. In the context of this, he is developing a new interdisciplinary field, where psychology and public administration are being combined, which is called ‘gedragsbestuurskunde’ (or: ‘behavioural public administration science’).

Because of the corona crisis, life as we know it was shut down world-wide in no-time. This required huge behavioural changes from all of us. No more travelling and only shopping locally became a plight rather than a choice, but with an additional benefit: they are better for the environment

Flattening the climate-curve
The interview with Lars Tymmers falls under the larger theme: What are the implications of the corona crisis for the climate in the long run? Watch the first video in which the Impact Café talks to Sanne Akerboom about 'How legislation and policy can contribute to tackling climate change' and the second video in which economist Rens van Tilburg discusses green recovery ater the Corona crisis?

Impact Café
Impact Café is an initiative for and by students of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance of Utrecht University. The aim is to find bottlenecks and solutions in the field of sustainability and to stimulate discussion between students and experts.

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