Research Interests

Climate Policy Acceptance

Citizen Engagement

Sustainability Transition

Critical Environmental Psychology

Interdisciplinary Research & Collaboration

Representative Publications

Allert, V. (2025). Local citizen assemblies as a way to overcome resistance to the mobility transition? Analyzing discourses in a municipality in rural Germany. Energy Research and Social Science, 130, 104427. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104427

Allert, V. & Reese, G. (2024). On the challenges of civic engagement in the mobility transition - A conceptual analysis of the linkages between car dependence and collective action. Journal of Cleaner Production, 486, 144533.

Gödde, J., Ruhrort, L., Allert, V. & Scheiner, J. (2023). User characteristics and spatial correlates of ride-pooling demand – Evidence from Berlin and Munich. Journal of Transport Geography, 109. doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103596

Allert, V. & Reese, G. (2023). Social identity based motivation to engage in collective action supporting the redistribution of street space. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 94, 9-24. doi: 10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.009

Levin-Keitel, M., Allert, V., Gödde, J., Krasilnikova, N. (2022). Mobilitätswende in Stadt und Land – Über eine räumliche Perspektive der Transformation zu nachhaltiger Mobilität. In: Schmidt-Lauber, B., Othengrafen, F., Pohlan, J., Wehrhahn, R. (eds) Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2021/2022. Jahrbuch StadtRegion. Springer VS. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-38941-3_8

Ruhrort, L. & Allert, V. (2021). Conceptualizing the Role of Individual Agency in Mobility Transitions: Avenues for the Integration of Sociological and Psychological Perspectives. Frontiers in Environmental Psychology, 12, 623652. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.623652

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