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Front. Psychol.
Sec. Environmental Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1392461
This article is part of the Research Topic How Do Behavior Science Interventions to Reduce Environmental Impacts Work in The Real World? View all 13 articles

Guidelines for Designing and Implementing Effective Environmental Behavior Change Interventions: A Strategic Approach to Planning, Monitoring, and Ethics

Provisionally accepted
Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu *Muhittin Hakan Demir Muhittin Hakan Demir
  • İzmir University of Economics, İzmir, Türkiye

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Interventions aiming at behavioural change are common tools for assessing and stimulating environmentally friendly lifestyles. To obtain representative and scalable results from the interventions, the experimental design of the interventions is crucial. Likewise, an operational plan is significant concerning the coherence and consistency of the interventions and the comparability of the results from different interventions. Such a guideline contributes to the design, execution, and supervision of the interventions, provides standardisation and enhances collaboration with the intervention partners. Intervention guidelines also pertain to the strategic planning of data requirements and collection procedures. Based on the work conducted within the context of the EUfunded ENCHANT project, the guidelines presented in this manuscript are structured based on the key phases of planning and design, implementation, and analysis and reporting. Another key area that needs to be considered and included in the guidelines is the planning necessities for the administrative structure for the interventions. This includes allocating staff roles and responsibilities and potential challenges and obstacles that may arise during implementation. Ethical concerns are also addressed.

    Keywords: intervention, guideline, behavioural change, Monitoring, Ethics

    Received: 27 Feb 2024; Accepted: 14 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Biresselioglu and Demir. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu, İzmir University of Economics, İzmir, Türkiye

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