Author: Kathleen Klaniecki
Earlier this month, I attended a wonderful conference on environmental psychology (ICEP 2017) in A Coruña, Spain. This year’s theme was Theories of Change in Sustainability Transitions and Social Innovation. As someone who straddles multiple disciplines in her research (as many of us do), this conference left me reflecting on current interactions between environmental psychology and sustainability science and how researchers in these disciplines can further collaborative for sustainability transformation.
In the Leverage Points project, we’ve had many conversations about shallow vs. deep leverage points: interventions at shallow leverage points often lead to little systemic change whereas interventions at deep leverage points have more transformational potential. But when talking about the role of environmental psychology in sustainability transformation, should we acknowledge and encourage further research on seemingly shallow leverage points?
At first glance, environmental psychology interventions are primarily focused on understanding and describing…
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