Changing Things — Moving People

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Transformation toward Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary, Actor-Oriented Perspective

   • Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Heinz Gutscher

   Pages 19-25

3. Switzerland’s Environmental and Sustainability Policies

   • Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ursula Mauch

   Pages 27-30

4. A Typology of Tools for Building Sustainability Strategies

   • Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Christoph Bättig, Susanne Bruppacher, Rico Defila, Antonietta Di Giulio, Peter Flury-Kleubler et al.

   Pages 33-107

5. Psychological Principles of Inducing Behaviour Change

   • Peter Flury-Kleubler, Heinz Gutscher

   Pages 109-129

6. Between Efficiency and Sufficiency. The Optimal Combination of Policy Instruments in the Mobility Sector towards Sustainable Development

   • Ursula Mauch, Nicole North, Raffael Pulli

   Pages 133-150

7. Voluntary Collective Action in Neighbourhood Slow-Down — Using Communication and Diffusion Instruments

   • Heinz Gutscher, Hans-Joachim Mosler, Jürg Artho

   Pages 151-169

8. Taxation of Residential Energy Use

   • Myriam Garbely, Alastair McFarlane

   Pages 171-189

9. The Acceptance of Instruments among Energy Policy Key Players

   • Maya Jegen

   Pages 191-211

10. Solar and Alternative Power Supply: An Instrument towards Ecologically Sound Power Consumption?

    • Sonja Gehrig, Nicole North

    Pages 213-237

11. Strategic Networking and Implementation of Communication and Diffusion Instruments to Develop Local Energy Policies

    • Christoph Bättig, Andreas Balthasar

    Pages 239-253

12. Economic Instruments for Wastewater Disposal

    • André Müller, David Kramer

    Pages 255-279

13. Mobilising Resources for More Sustainable Lifestyles: Views of Households and Local Authorities

    • Susanne Bruppacher, Silvia Ulli-Beer

    Pages 281-302

14. Possibilities and Limits of Environmentally Responsible Action as Perceived by Participants in the Household EcoTeam Programme

    • Matthias D. Vatter, Wolfgang Gessner, Urs Wittwer

    Pages 303-321

15. Suggestions for Designing Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development

    • Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Silvia Ulli-Beer, Myriam Garbely, Heinz Gutscher

    Pages 325-335

16. Inter and Transdisciplinary Processes — Experience and Lessons Learnt

    • Rico Defila, Antonietta Di Giulio

    Pages 337-356

17. Back Matter

    Pages 357-364

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This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame and the high barriers to success for such an enterprise - differences in concepts and terminology, disciplinary myopia, and the inherent difficulty of the problem. In the USA, where I work, these barriers continue to pose major challenges after some 30 years of effort. Switzerland has made noteworthy progress in only five. I hope this book represents the beginning of a long­ term effort at problem-oriented interdisciplinary collaboration among Swiss researchers and prac­ titioners. The Swiss group has succeeded in developing a unifying framework that makes a major contri­ bution to environmental policy analysis. The framework broadens policy thinking by giving se­ rious treatment to underutilized strategies that rely on communication and informal influence as well as to well-studied ones that rely on technological change, regulation, and economic forces. This broad typology makes it easier for an analyst to escape the tendency to presume that the po­ licy instrument currently in fashion, whether it be market-based instruments, voluntary measures, or whatever, is the right strategy for all problems. It also encourages discipline-based analysts to consider how their favored strategies might be combined with other strategies less familiar to them, and thus to craft strategies that can take advantage of the strengths of various policy instruments.

• behavior
• development
• efficiency
• energy policy
• environment
• environmental policy
• policy
• sustainability
• sustainable development

• Interfakultäre Koordinationstelle für Allgemeine Ökologie (IKAÖ), Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz

• Psychologisches Institut, Abteilung Sozialpsychologie, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Heinz Gutscher

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