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Supporting Behavioural Entrepreneurs: Using the Biodiversity-Health Relationship to Help Citizens Self-Initiate Sustainability Behaviour

R. Young

Published 2019 in Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

ABSTRACT

Highlights: (1) Resource limits and climate disruption have created a new biophysical context characterized by a long, drawn-out descent, (2) An initial aspect of this will be an unexpected decline in surplus energy, (3) The result is a new behavioral context that the social sciences are only slowly coming to understand, (4) One major challenge is that the environmental behaviors needed later this century cannot be fully known in advance, yet we must somehow begin to plan for them now, (5) Attentional vitality and psychological equipoise are essential for the envisioning and behavioral planning needed now, and the behavior change that follows, (6) Clusters of behavior must be adopted; the past focus on serial and incremental change will not suffice, and (7) By understanding the conditions under which human envision and plan, conditions can be created whereby citizens become behavioral entrepreneurs.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Venue

    Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

  • Publication date

    2019-06-12

  • Fields of study

    Political Science, Environmental Science, Psychology

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-02318-8_13
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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