Design Interventions for Sustainable Behaviour

This chapter brings together research from Loughborough University (UK) design scholars to present a unified framework for designing interventions for sustainable behaviour. This includes: research and design approaches towards formulating an understanding of the user’s actions in context; selecting a behavioural target (where to intervene); selecting (or applying) a behavioural intervention strategy; and evaluating the behavioural interventions are presented. Relevant case study examples, drawn from two UK-research council projects, are provided to elucidate theoretical propositions. The chapter concludes by reflecting on what we have learned and where we see further developments in the field emerging.