Publications by Franziska Meinherz

La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug) Portrait en 12 villes

Vincent Kaufmann, Martin Schuler, Yves Pedrazzini, Pierre-Emmanuel Dessemontet, Carmen Fischer, Gian Paolo Torricelli, Renate Albrecher, Franziska Meinherz, Maxime Carl Felder

Et si l'on pensait la Suisse urbaine non pas à partir de ses métropoles, mais de ces villes comme le pays en compte des dizaines ? Celles-ci représentent davantage la norme que l'exception dans le paysage helvétique contemporaine. Pourtant, en Suisse, comm ...

EPFL Press2024

‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

Reducing the modal share of car travel in commuting implies challenging meanings of everyday mobility that tie commuting to driving. Existing research has focussed on describing ways in which everyday mobility is meaningful. However, why shifts in meanings ...

2021

Vom Öffnen und Verschließen von Alternativen: Implikationen der gesellschaftlichen Einbettung nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Wertvorstellungen

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

Nomos2021

The challenges of studying change in carbon-intensive urban consumption practices: Exploring the dynamics of practice change and of normative considerations in knowledge production

Franziska Meinherz

Problem. To reach international greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, the carbon intensity of urban resource and energy consumption must be reduced. Technological innovation alone is not sufficient: The practices that constitute urban household demand for ...

EPFL2021

The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

The participation of societal actors has been advanced as the gold standard of sustainability assessment processes and is thought essential to dealing with the plurality of normative claims surrounding sustainability and the need to take decisions in a con ...

Cambridge University Press2020

The dynamics of modal shifts in (sub)urban commuting: An empirical analysis based on practice theories

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Franziska Meinherz

A modal shift away from the private car onto low-carbon transport modes is an essential part of decarbonising the transport sector. The dynamics of modal shifts are, however, not yet well understood. In particular the interrelations between structural and ...

2020

Tracing power in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an exploration

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

Power is involved when researchers and practitioners work together in transdisciplinary sustainability research. Among other things, this has implications regarding who gets to decide which research questions are dealt with and which partners are involved, ...

2020

How Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

Any sustainability assessment uses some notion of sustainability as a reference. It is increasingly acknowledged that sustainability is a contested concept and that its different definitions are rooted in different values. Accordingly, researchers have sta ...

Cambridge University Press2020

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

Franziska Meinherz, Rafael Laurenti

The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practi ...

2019

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

Pratiques de mobilité en Suisse: Une étude qualitative sur les choix modaux des pendulaires urbains et la mobilité au quotidien [Dataset]

Franziska Meinherz

27 semi-structured interviews. Languages: German, Swiss German, French. ...

2019

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Participatory Modeling to Elicit Behavioral Drivers in Environmental Dilemmas: the Case of Air Pollution in Talca, Chile

Franziska Meinherz

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the exploration of environmental modeling methods based on the elicitation of stakeholders’ mental models. This aim is motivated by the necessity to understand the dilemmas and behavioral rationales of individuals ...

2018

Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Cities are responsible for the predominant share of anthropogenic environmental pressures. Recently, consistent methodologies to measure the metabolism of cities have been developed in order to enhance comparability between case studies and enable cross-ci ...

Elsevier2017