Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing
Autor Doug McKenzie-Mohren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2011
Advance Praise for Fostering Sustainable Behavior
"More than a book, McKenzie-Mohr has given us a complete system for designing effective environmental programs. Solidly grounded in research, and extensively field-tested in community programs, the tools described in this book can be applied to improve the effectiveness of any environmental program. Simply put, if you work on environmental issues, this book is indispensable. "
- Dan Dolderman, University of Toronto
"Over the last 2 decades, CBSM has revolutionized the development, implementation and promotion of environmental programs."
- Ken Donnelly, Lura Consulting
"Fostering Sustainable Behavior should be required reading for anyone who develops or manages an environmental program."
- Wesley Schultz, California State University, San Marcos
"The 3rd edition of Fostering Sustainable Behavior should serve as the core foundational work for every practitioner, educator, and researcher interested in creating programs to achieve the book's title. McKenzie-Mohr has thoughtfully accumulated and organized techniques and practices essential to this goal, many of them derived from learnings common to multiple behavioral science disciplines. The book is packed with important information, while being a quick and entertaining read."
- K. Carrie Armel, Stanford University
"Fostering Sustainable Behavior is a must read for anyone hoping to achieve actual behavior change, as well as for anyone teaching the psychology of behavior change. The concepts presented in this book have revolutionized my work as a scholar and an activist."
- Cynthia McPherson Frantz, Oberlin College
About the Book
Recommended by Time Magazine, this ground-breaking book introduces community-based social marketing and illustrates how it can be used to foster sustainable behavior. Community-based social marketing is a proven breakthrough in delivering environmental programs and is now being used in thousands of programs across the globe. This book was written for those who design, implement and evaluate programs to foster sustainable behavior.
About the Author
Doug McKenzie-Mohr is the founder of community-based social marketing. He has worked internationally with a diverse array of governmental and nongovernmental agencies, assisting them in identifying the barriers to behavior change and in developing and evaluating community-based social marketing initiatives to overcome these barriers. He is a former Professor of Psychology at St. Thomas University in Canada.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0865716420
Pagini: 171
Dimensiuni: 188 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: New Society Publishers
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
Read the landmark and now classic guide Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing Third Edition by Doug McKenzie-Mohr, and discover some fresh thinking, and a community based approach to sustainable development. This book provides the framework to transform people's behavior and their lives as they change their behavior and attitudes toward the environment and sustainability.
Wayne Hurlbert - Blog Business World
Notă biografică
Cuprins
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