Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach

摘要: Abstract Concerns about the climate crisis and escalating pace of global consumption are accelerating pressure on governments to moderate public demand for resources like water, food energy. Notwithstanding their increasing sophistication, standard behavioural change approaches continue be criticised a narrow understanding what shapes behaviour. One alternative theoretical position comes from practice theories, which draw interpretive relational understandings focus practices rather than people's behaviour, hence highlight complex distributed set factors shaping resource use. While theories have gained considerable interest policy institutions within beyond UK they so far had limited impact upon policy. It has even been argued that there insurmountable challenges in reconciling ontological commitments with realities processes. This article advances academic debates practical implications theories. works evidence transdisciplinary research intended establish whether how key distinctive insights social can usefully brought bear We pursued this through co-productive four national partners, focusing effective communication agreed issues. A outcome collaboratively negotiating challenging theory influence processes is ‘Change Points’ approach, our partners identified as offering new thinking initiatives promoting reductions use disposal resources. The Change Points approach was developed enable confront complexities everyday action, transforming both problems framed effecting developed. discuss case waste reduction order demonstrate potential reframe behaviour end paper by addressing limitations informing based successes well we met. discussion broader other fields theory, relations between more broadly. argue that, professionals, engagement making, it possible provide partial pragmatic but nevertheless translation related research, identify spaces sustainability.