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A psychosocial analysis of citizens’ orientations towards sustainable urban mobility: overview of results from 10 years of research in Italy (and abroad)

This paper summarizes and discusses a series of studies conducted in Italy over the last 10 years on the theme of sustainable urban mobility. The studies applied different theoretical models (attitude theory, social representation theory and the communication research approach) and methodological approaches (quantitative and qualitative) to investigate citizens’ orientations (in terms of values, attitudes, beliefs and representations) toward the adoption of more sustainable transportation styles in an urban context.

Photovoice as a visual-verbal strategy for studying contents and processes of social representations: A participatory project on sustainable energy

Photovoice is a participatory action-research strategy that has
been mainly adopted to give voice to “unheard” groups. In this
article, we adapted this strategy in a study on the social representations (SRs) of sustainable energy shared by young citizens
(ages 11–12) in Narni, Italy, a small urban center with a history
intertwined with sustainable energy issues. In particular, the
study suggests that photovoice could be useful to jointly examine verbal and visual components of social representations and to