Fostering Sustainable Behavior (eBook)

An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition)

Doug McKenzie-Mohr (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | 3., Third Edition
192 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-55092-462-6 (ISBN)

Infos

To attain a sustainable future, we must change many of our everyday actions. This completely revised and updated edition of Fostering Sustainable Behavior shows how community-based social marketing is key to overcoming barriers and resistance and creating new social norms.

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The highly acclaimed manual for changing everyday habits-now in an all-newthird edition! We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to change theirs. If one individual recycles his plastic containers, the impact is minimal. But if an entire community recycles, enormous amounts of resources are saved. How then do we go about transforming people's good intentions into action? Fostering Sustainable Behavior explains how the field of community-based social marketing has emerged as an effective tool for encouraging positive social change. This completely revised and updated third edition contains a wealth of new research, behavior change tools, and case studies. Learn how to: target unsustainable behaviors, and identify the barriers to change understand various commitment strategies communicate effective messages enhance motivation and invite participation. The strategies introduced in this ground-breaking manual are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in promoting sustainable behavior, including environmental conservation, recycling and waste reduction, water and energyefficiency and alternative transportation.

Autor

lt;p> Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr is an environmental psychologist who specializes in designing programs to promote sustainable behavior. For the last decade his award-winning work has focused on incorporating scientific knowledge on behavior change into the design and delivery of community programs. As the founder of community-based social marketing, he has repeatedly illustrated its utility in his research, workshops, and consulting. His previous version of this book published through Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy has become requisite reading for those who deliver programs to promote sustainable behavior.

Inhalt

Preface
How to Use this Book
Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Step 1: Selecting Behaviors
Step 2: Identifying Barriers and Benefits
Step 3: Developing Strategies
Commitment: From Good Intentions to Action
Social Norms: Building Community Support
Social Diffusion: Speeding the Adoption of New Behaviors
Prompts: Remembering to Act
Communication: Creating Effective Messages
Incentives: Enhancing Motivation to Act
Convenience: Making it Easy to Act
Developing Strategies Revisited
Step 4: Piloting
Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation
Concluding thoughts
Acknowledgments
References
About the author

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: attitudes • Behavior change • Behaviour change • Business Marketing • Civic • Community • Consumer Behavior • Ecology • Economics • effective messages • enviro nature • Environment • environmental • Environment sustainability • everyday habits • green books • Green Business • Habits • Marketing • positive social change • science environment • science nature environmental • Social Innovation • Social Marketing • Social Sciences • social shift • sustainability • sustainability books • sustainable choices • sustainable development • Sustainable living
• ISBN-10: 1-55092-462-1 / 1550924621
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55092-462-6 / 9781550924626