Key drivers for unsustainable resource use - categories, effects and policy pointers

In relation to a multi-dimensional network of drivers causing unsustainable resource use, resource policy should combine policy objectives and instruments into policy mixes to target key drivers and their interrelations. While policy mixes need to respond to context specific driver settings, targeting consumer behaviour emerges as a general driver focus of policy mixes. Combining different instrument types and implementing them in a time-dynamic sequence can mitigate trade-offs between different instruments and in the longer-term increase feasibility of profound behaviour changes.