Sustainable Development and Its Dependence on Local Community Behavior

Takis Ap. Kapsalis and Vasilis C. Kapsalis
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Takis Ap. Kapsalis: Sustainable Development Association, 15122 Marousi, Greece
Vasilis C. Kapsalis: Industrial Management and Operations Research Sector, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-13

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to simplify and facilitate the bottom-up sustainable development of a local society where the dominant element is the residents’ vision. Thus, the primary questions that we investigate here refer to the fundamental components and the derived difficulties that influence the behavior change attitudes. Following a literature review and discourse analysis, the components participating in the intervention system emerge by issuing suitable surveys, which are quantified by using conventional statistical methodology. The estimated desire for change was continuously monitored to dynamically exclude the cognitive bias in the nine-step change process. Coming from the business management area, a structural formulation analysis simplified and remodeled the equation of change used and revealed the factors to interpret the outputs. A pilot case study is presented followed by an extensive discussion of the results. The proposed methodology provides a powerful cognitive tool and may be further utilized and developed. In a local community, a strict distinction should be made between the trend to envision a change and the implementation of a real one. The results foster the discussion of a novel governance paradigm transition towards a transversal approach.

Keywords: local community; bottom-up approach; sustainable development; behavior change; cognitive mapping; transversal governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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