Green Lifestyles, Alternative Models and Upscaling Regional Sustainability (GLAMURS)
Transitions to sustainable lifestyles and green economies are among the most important challenges of our time. Funded by the European Commission’s 7th Research Framework Programme, GLAMURS started in January 2014 and will support policymakers, businesses, and citizens to make the right decisions on the way towards a sustainable future. GLAMURS will create communicative contexts on European and regional levels to investigate how such transitions are possible. Methods such as knowledge co-production, agent based modelling, macro and micro economic modelling along with the highly integrated view of the interdisciplinary GLAMURS team will help to find greater insights into the complex issues involved with sustainable development.
Six lifestyle domains & seven regions
Between January 2014 and December 2016 GLAMURS will focus on six lifestyle domains: energy use, housing, work-leisure-balance, food-consumption, mobility and the consumption of manufactured products. Seven case studies will help our understanding of how transition to sustainable lifestyles and green economies are possible. With the help of pioneers of sustainability in Galicia (Spain), Aberdeenshire (Scotland), Banat Timis (Romania), Danube-Bohemian Forest (Austria), Rotterdam-Delft-The Hague (Netherlands), Lazio region (Italy) as well as Central Germany, GLAMURS will point out how lifestyles of sustainability pioneers could inspire regional actors to change political settings so that transitions to sustainable regions will become reality. At the same time, the regional and case study analyses will provide an insight into the upscaling to transitions beyond the regional levels.
