Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability objectives—such as the Paris climate targets—require different strategies such as technological change and behavior change. These strategies can take place on a voluntary basis, but can also be implemented by various policy instruments such as regulatory law and economic incentives. Although these policies (or governance) instruments are relatively well investigated, the motivational drivers of different kinds of actors, such as political, economic, and societal actors—as well as the interactions between these actors—still deserve further research. This is the starting point of this Special Issue on sustainability transformation and behavior change. We want to investigate the specific conditions for voluntary individual behavior change, as well as the preconditions of acceptance for policy instruments that incentivize behavior change. How the different actors influence each other and how the interaction between technological and behavioral change works and makes societal change possible are of particular interest to this Special Issue. Examples of analyzing successful (policy) interventions to promote and achieve behavior change towards a sustainability transformation are welcome as well.

Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches should play a special role, i.e., approaches that do not operate from disciplinary boundaries but from questions of content without excessive subordination to established disciplinary dogmas. We invite qualitative as well as quantitative studies that adhere to high-quality standards and provide plausible justifications for their methodological choices and study design.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Felix Ekardt
Prof. Dr. Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Guest Editors

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• sustainability transformation
• behavior change
• pro-environmental behavior
• societal change
• environmental justice
• (policy) interventions