Achieving conservation impact by shifting focus from human attitudes to behaviors

D Nilsson, K Fielding, AJ Dean - Conservation Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Attitudes have been a commonly used psychological measure of program effectiveness in
conservation social science research. The major limitation of this approach is that attitudes …

Community-based conservation in a globalized world

F Berkes - Proceedings of the National academy of …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Communities have an important role to play in biodiversity conservation. However,
community-based conservation as a panacea, like government-based conservation as a …

Effect of local cultural context on the success of community‐based conservation interventions

KA Waylen, A Fischer, PJK McGowan… - Conservation …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation interventions require evaluation to understand what factors predict success or
failure. To date, there has been little systematic investigation of the effect of social and …

Advancing conservation by understanding and influencing human behavior

SMW Reddy, J Montambault, YJ Masuda… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral
barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have …

Conflicting social norms and community conservation compliance

RI McDonald, KS Fielding, WR Louis - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
Though the success of conservation initiatives relies on changing behaviour, little social
psychological research has examined factors such as attitudes and social norms in the …

Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being

TO McShane, PD Hirsch, TC Trung, AN Songorwa… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
Win–win solutions that both conserve biodiversity and promote human well-being are
difficult to realize. Trade-offs and the hard choices they entail are the norm. Since 2008, the …

Efficacy‐based and normative interventions for facilitating the diffusion of conservation behavior through social networks

R Niemiec, MS Jones, S Lischka… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research suggests that encouraging motivated residents to reach out to others in their
social network is an effective strategy for increasing the scale and speed of conservation …

A theory‐based framework for understanding the establishment, persistence, and diffusion of community‐based conservation

SL Mahajan, A Jagadish, L Glew… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over decades, biodiversity conservation researchers and practitioners have developed
theories and conceptual frameworks to inform the planning, implementation, and evaluation …

Personal circumstances and social characteristics as determinants of landholder participation in biodiversity conservation programs

K Moon, N Marshall, C Cocklin - Journal of environmental management, 2012 - Elsevier
Adequate conservation of biodiversity on private land remains elusive due, in part, to a
failure to understand the personal circumstances and social characteristics of private …

Payments for ecosystem services did not crowd out pro-environmental behavior: Long-term experimental evidence from Uganda

T Vorlaufer, S Engel, J de Laat… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being implemented worldwide as
conservation instruments that provide conditional economic incentives to landowners for a …