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Canadian Values, Sustainable Development and Behaviour Change:

An Investigation of Canadian Values and their Influence on Sustainable Development Decision Making and Behavioural Choices, and of Related Techniques to Influence Behaviour Change Towards Sustainable Development

Contents

1.0. Summary

2.0. Introduction

3.0. Values

          3.1 Behavioural Values
                              3.1.1     Competition, aggression, dominance
                              3.1.2     Individualism/self-interest
                              3.1.3     Insatiable wants
                              3.1.4     Rationality
          3.2 Operational Values
                              3.2.1     Utility maximization
                              3.2.2     Debt
                              3.2.3     (E)valuation
                              3.2.4     Money fetishism
                              3.2.5     Discounting
                              3.2.6     Efficiency
          3.3 Conceptual Values
                              3.3.1     Objectivity
                              3.3.2     Freedom
                              3.3.3     Substitutability
                              3.3.4     Growth
                              3.3.5     Linearity
          3.4 Institutional Values
                              3.4.1     Property rights/Ownership
                              3.4.2     Free market

4.0 Values, Driving Forces and Behaviours

5.0 Discussion of Mechanisms Linking Behaviours and Values

               5.1  Identity Formation
               5.2  Lifestyle Forces
               5.3  Domestic Forces
               5.4  Cementing the Social Processes in the Domestic Sphere
               5.5  Extending the Domestic Forces
               5.6  Extending the Driving Forces
               5.7  The Social Dimension
               5.8  Commodification of Society
               5.9  Health Case Study
               5.10 Societal Freedom and Oppression
               5.11 Social Processes - the Treadmill of Production
               5.12 Alternative Worldviews
               5.13 Growth and the Globalisation of PEW Values as Driving Forces
               5.14 Summary

6.0 Significance for Sustainable Development and Barriers

               6.1  Behaviour Consistent with Sustainable Development Objectives
               6.2  The Case for Intervening on Values and Behaviours
               6.3  Intervening on the Predominant Economic Worldview Values
               6.4  Opportunities for Intervention
                              6.4.1     Intentional Order
                              6.4.2     Multi-Purpose Political Intervention
                              6.4.3     Dialogue
               6.5  Barriers
                              6.5.1     Predominant Economic Worldview Values, ‘Rational’ Behaviour and
                    Demand
                              6.5.2     Operational Barriers
                              6.5.3     State of Knowledge
               6.6  Worldview Shift Needed
               6.7  The Superordinate Structure of Worldviews
               6.8  Summary

7.0 Implications for Sustainable Development

               7.1. Moving Beyond the Predominant Economic Worldview
               7.2  Sustainable Development Decision Making, Tools, and Strategies
               7.3  Weak Versus Strong Sustainability
               7.4  Suppressing PEW Values
               7.5  Preference Shaping Towards Sustainable Development
               7.6  Non-Material Contributions to Sustainable Development
               7.7  International Agreements
               7.8  Research
               7.9  Alternative Worldviews, Values and Lifestyles
               7.10 The Role of Larger Social Values
               7.11 Summary

8.0 Conclusions

9.0 Recommendations

10.0 References
Sustainability Coaching
Energy
Housing
Climate Change
Transportation and mobility
Urban Planning and Access
Behaviour and Lifestyle Change
Health Promotion
Social Health Determinants

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