Models of Change: Strategies to Make the Socio-ecological Transformation a Success

Climate change and many other problems show us more and more clearly that fundamental change is necessary. However, many good ideas get stuck in implementation. Therefore, the question is how we can change more successfully. We take sports courses or go to music lessons to learn, to get better quickly or to avoid hurting ourselves. Professionals in sport, art and other fields also receive intensive coaching from experts. However, when it comes to making successful progress towards sustainability, people often rely on ‘home recipes’. It is time to become more professional in this area as well. To achieve this, it is important to make targeted use of the findings of transformation research and key success factors as well as to develop transformation literacy. In this chapter, the models of change approach is presented, which focuses on central success factors for social change and shows ways to successful change.