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Impacting Community Sustainability through Behavior Change: A Research Framework

Management Analysis Journal

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Title Impacting Community Sustainability through Behavior Change: A Research Framework
 
Creator Luke, Molli
Alavosius, Mark
 
Subject Behavior Analysis, Urban Planning
sustainability, kernels, large-scale implementation, communities
 
Description The need for “sustainability” has encouraged a variety of disciplines to weigh in on ways to reduce the impact of a given community on the environment around it. Approaches can range from changing the behavior of a few people to completely restructuring the communities in which people live. Interventions in the larger system of a community provide potential for larger levels of change. How to do this has yet to be fully evaluated, especially from the perspective of people’s behavior interacting within a community environment. Individual level interventions in the behavior analysis literature provide many interventions, such as contingency management programs and empirically evaluated “kernels” (Embry & Biglan, 2008) across various populations and behaviors. The current paper argues that these provide a starting point for working with other sciences to change the environment, impact the cultural practices of people in the community, and promote sustainability. A snapshot of the current literature is provided along with various models for application of these interventions to larger communities.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Date 2012-07-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/3938
10.5210/bsi.v21i0.3938
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Vol 21 (2012); 54-79
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/3938/3277