Manuel Suter
@manuelsuter.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Lund University
Research in Behavioral Ecological Economics, Sufficiency and Post-Growth
Currently working on attractive future visions considering planetary boundaries and citizens views.
Research in Behavioral Ecological Economics, Sufficiency and Post-Growth
Currently working on attractive future visions considering planetary boundaries and citizens views.
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Food waste salience and task knowledge to reduce individual food waste: A field experiment in a restaurant setting
Food waste related to individual consumption creates high economic, social and environmental costs. This study explores two informational strategies f…
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June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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🧠 Food for thought: If a small card on a restaurant table can reduce waste by 16 percentage points, imagine what we could do at scale.
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🧠 Food for thought: If a small card on a restaurant table can reduce waste by 16 percentage points, imagine what we could do at scale.
Implications:
🔹 Restaurants can reduce food waste (and costs) with simple, low-cost interventions like table prompts or messages on menus.
🔹 These changes don’t hurt the guest experience.
🔹 Restaurants can reduce food waste (and costs) with simple, low-cost interventions like table prompts or messages on menus.
🔹 These changes don’t hurt the guest experience.
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Implications:
🔹 Restaurants can reduce food waste (and costs) with simple, low-cost interventions like table prompts or messages on menus.
🔹 These changes don’t hurt the guest experience.
🔹 Restaurants can reduce food waste (and costs) with simple, low-cost interventions like table prompts or messages on menus.
🔹 These changes don’t hurt the guest experience.
🟢 Key finding: Making guests aware of food waste reduced the likelihood of leaving food behind (self-reported food waste by guests) by 16 percentage points compared to the control group.
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🟢 Key finding: Making guests aware of food waste reduced the likelihood of leaving food behind (self-reported food waste by guests) by 16 percentage points compared to the control group.
We tested two interventions:
1️⃣ A gentle reminder placed on dining tables to raise awareness of food waste.
2️⃣ The same reminder, but with added guidance on portion sizes.
1️⃣ A gentle reminder placed on dining tables to raise awareness of food waste.
2️⃣ The same reminder, but with added guidance on portion sizes.
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We tested two interventions:
1️⃣ A gentle reminder placed on dining tables to raise awareness of food waste.
2️⃣ The same reminder, but with added guidance on portion sizes.
1️⃣ A gentle reminder placed on dining tables to raise awareness of food waste.
2️⃣ The same reminder, but with added guidance on portion sizes.
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Green growth beliefs: Investigating factors associated with expert opinions on green growth
Green growth attempts to achieve sustainable development under continued economic growth and is currently one of the leading policy responses to mitigate climate change and prevent environmental colla...
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April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Link to Journal Article: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
📄 The article has been published in the journal PLOS Climate (open access, see link below). A big thank you to my fantastic co-authors Noel Strahm, Till Bundeli, Kaja Kaessner, Viktoria Cologna, Oreskes Naomi, and Sebastian Berger.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📄 The article has been published in the journal PLOS Climate (open access, see link below). A big thank you to my fantastic co-authors Noel Strahm, Till Bundeli, Kaja Kaessner, Viktoria Cologna, Oreskes Naomi, and Sebastian Berger.
🌍 Our findings suggest that, despite its widespread political popularity, there is no global scientific consensus on the viability of global green growth.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🌍 Our findings suggest that, despite its widespread political popularity, there is no global scientific consensus on the viability of global green growth.
🔹Green growth endorsement was most strongly assosciated with the belief that sustained economic growth is essential for human well-being. This may imply that green growth beliefs among researchers are influenced by ideology.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🔹Green growth endorsement was most strongly assosciated with the belief that sustained economic growth is essential for human well-being. This may imply that green growth beliefs among researchers are influenced by ideology.
🔹Even among green growth believers, there are considerable differences with regard to the assessment of the feasibility of key conditions for green growth like absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource and energy use.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🔹Even among green growth believers, there are considerable differences with regard to the assessment of the feasibility of key conditions for green growth like absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource and energy use.
🔹There are large variations in green growth endorsement across scientific disciplines, with the highest green growth endorsement by researchers from the field Economics, Econometrics and Finance (74%) and the lowest from researchers in the field Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%).
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🔹There are large variations in green growth endorsement across scientific disciplines, with the highest green growth endorsement by researchers from the field Economics, Econometrics and Finance (74%) and the lowest from researchers in the field Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%).
📊 What we found:
🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale.
🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%).
🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale.
🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%).
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📊 What we found:
🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale.
🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%).
🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale.
🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%).
The study is open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The benefits of less: The effect of sufficiency gain framing on sufficiency behavior
Sufficiency strategies aimed at reduced production and consumption levels have a high potential to help combat environmental issues. There is limited …
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February 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🤔 What are your thoughts? How can we shift societal narratives around consumption?
February 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🤔 What are your thoughts? How can we shift societal narratives around consumption?