This systematic review synthesises how development communication strategies support sustainability-related behaviour change across environmental and social transitions. Following PRISMA 2020 reporting principles, studies published between 2000 and 2025 were identified in Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and Communication narrative and values-based framing; social norms and feedback; social marketing and community-based campaign design; and digital and multi-platform engagement. The review's contribution is not to restate that awareness alone is insufficient, but to show how these meso-level strategies activate distinct micro-level mechanisms and depend on macro-level transition conditions. Evidence was strongest for short-run norm and feedback effects, while participatory studies most clearly illuminated trust, ownership, and contextual fit. The review offers a heuristic framework to guide policy, practice, and future comparative research.
Marianne Agnes Taveros Mendoza (Wed,) studied this question.