Human behavior and sustainability

摘要: 7 Sustainability demands changes in human behavior. To this end, priority areas include reforming formal insti- tutions, strengthening the institutions of civil society, improving citizen engagement, curbing consumption and population growth, addressing social justice issues, reflecting on value belief systems. We review existing knowledge across these conclude that global sustainability deficit is not primarily result a lack academic knowledge. Rather, unsustainable behaviors from vicious cycle, where tra- ditional market state reinforce disincentives for more sustainable while, at same time, society momentum to effectively promote fundamental reforms those tutions. Achieving requires cycle be broken. call readers contribute change through involvement initiatives like Ecological Society America's Earth Stewardship Initiative or nascent Millennium Alliance Humanity & Biosphere.