Intrapersonal capacities for sustainability: a change agent perspective on the ‘inner dimension’ of sustainability work

Behaviour Change for Sustainability: Keeping Promises: Do Pledges Work?

"A popular component of many behaviour change efforts involves asking a person to make a commitment, or “pledge”, to undertake the desired behaviour. This typically involves getting them to sign their name to a promise to save water/energy/emissions. The common perception is that this will make them more accountable, and thus more likely to follow through on the requested behaviours. This month...

Sustainability for the Planet: A Marketing Perspective

Introduction Marketing and the Climate Change Debate Marketing For Social and Environmental Change Marketing and the Scientific Community Enviro-marketers: Whos Out There Marketing Sustainability? What Can We Learn from Them? Marketing Adaptive Management: a Call to Action Conclusion Endnotes Responses to this Article Acknowledgments Literature Cited

Advancing Sustainability Through Change and Innovation: A Co- evolutionary Perspective

This article addresses the problem of how change and innovation can create a fuller voice for ecological interests in organizations and public policy, raising issues about change mechanisms at the institutional versus organizational level. First, it suggests that the newer, systems-based and inclusive approaches to organizational development practice and theory may overcome shortcomings of earl...

Making sustainability work

Today’s economic theory usually neglects the role of nature and environment. To make sustainability work it is, however, essential to (re-)integrate nature into the standard concepts of economics, especially by incorporating natural factors into the production function. It must be acknowledged that economic growth is not (only) the result of technical change but is mainly caused by rising energ...

The international dimension of sustainability policies