Meeting mobility needs with radically less.
Leveraging individual and collective Engagement in Sufficiency Strategies for Mobility — an interdisciplinary project pairing engineering, law, behavioral sciences and economics to make low-car daily mobility legally feasible, socially fair, and genuinely better for everyday life.
Sufficiency means meeting needs with less — while keeping, or improving, quality of life.
Daily mobility is Belgium's second-highest-emitting sector — a quarter of all emissions, and the only one still rising since 1990. Efficiency makes each trip cleaner, but rarely fewer. Sufficiency asks the harder question: how much travel do we actually need, and how do we provide access and wellbeing with far less car dependence?
The IPCC names sufficiency a promising but underexplored lever. Yet we lack integrated knowledge on how to design measures that are legally feasible, socially acceptable, economically fair and psychologically credible. less4more builds that evidence base for Belgium — connecting four disciplines around one question no field can answer alone.
“A set of measures and daily practices that avoid demand for energy, materials, land and water while delivering human well-being for all within planetary boundaries.”
Four disciplines, one shared question.
Three axes, from scenarios to policy.
The people behind less4more.
Publications & outputs.
The project runs from October 2026 to September 2031. Publications, working papers and policy briefs will be listed here as they appear.