Lecture 4

Question 1

definition nudge

Answer 1

aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives

Question 2

social tipping meaning

Answer 2

each agents want to make sure that it lives near some of it’s own
- big difference between wanting to have 20% of the same or 40% of the same

Question 3

granoletter’s threshold model

Answer 3

critical mass/bandwagon: at the point were the majority does it, I will do it swell
- large cascades of adoption triggers by few initial adpoters
- amount of neighbors & threshold of individual has influence on how many people adapt it

Question 4

geel’s technological transition model/ findings article: multi-level perspective on sustainable transitions

Answer 4

first a lot of niche innovations
- integrate with science, culture a bit
- external influence, asking to change innovation
- elements align: new configuration
- new regime that influences landscape

Question 5

Loorbach’s transition model

Answer 5

up to down:
- optimalization, destabalization, chaos, break down, phase out
down to up:
- experiment, accelaration, emergenization, institutionalisation, stabilisation

Question 6

findings article “social tipping dynamics for stabilizing earth’s climate

Answer 6

how to help with STI & STE
- butterfly effect (small change, big effect)
- cascades driven by positive feedback