Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Benoit Granier, Ph.D.
Benoit Granier is an associate researcher at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (in France) since he obtained his Ph.D. in political science and Japanese studies in 2017. He has been working on energy and climate change policymaking process and policy changes, especially on behavior and lifestyle change policies. He is currently working on the Japanese and French Product Environmental Footprint labeling programmes, especially in the food sector, with a focus on how public policy could encourage low carbon food diets.
Selected Publications
1. Granier B., forthcoming (2019), "Changing behaviours rather than lifestyles. The deadlocks of the technological framing of Japan's energy transition", Lien Social et Politiques.
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2. Granier B., Shove E., Poskanzer D., 2018, "'Cool Biz' in Japan: Transnational Circulation of Practices and Policies", Proceedings of the 2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, pp. 8.1-8.12.
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3. Granier B., Shove E., 2018, Pathways of change. Cool Biz and the reconditioning of office energy demand, DEMAND Research Insight n°17. URL:http://www.demand.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/demand-insight-17-V3.pdf
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4. Granier B., 2017, “Why do energy conservation policies mobilise the behavioural sciences rather than the social sciences? A few lessons from the emergence of the behaviour change agenda in Japan”, Proceedings of the 2017 ECEEE Summer Study, European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. URL: https://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2017/9-consumption-and-behaviour/why-do-energy-conservation-policies-mobilise-the-behavioural-sciences-rather-than-the-social-sciences-a-few-lessons-from-the-emergence-of-the-behaviour-change-agenda-in-japan/2017/9-006-17_Granier.pdf/
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5. Granier B., Kudo H., 2016, “How are Citizens Involved in Smart Cities? Analysing Citizen Participation in Japanese Smart Communities”, Information Polity, Vol. 21, n°1, pp. 61-76. URL: http://content.iospress.com/articles/information-polity/ip367
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6. Granier B., Kudo H., 2016, "Citizen Co-designed and Co-produced Smart City Japanese smart city projects for 'quality of life' and 'resilience'", ICEGOV 15-16, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, pp. 240-249, New York, ACM. URL:http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2910103