Human behavior is responsible for many of our greatest environmental challenges. The
accumulated effects of many individual and household decisions have major negative …

Human activities are degrading ecosystems worldwide, posing existential threats for
biodiversity and humankind. Slowing and reversing this degradation will require profound …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted as reference and universal
guidepost for transitioning to Sustainable Development by the United Nations in 2015 as …

There is a growing concern in society about the continuing intensive usage of pesticides in
farming and its effects on environmental and human health. Insight in the intentions of …

Shifting people in higher income countries toward more plant-based diets would protect the
natural environment and improve population health. Research in other domains suggests …

The world faces imminent drought-related challenges that, from a tap-water supply
perspective, require increasingly expensive infrastructure enhancement and energy …

Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between
nature and human society. Characteristics of human society—including culture, economics …

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 …

Conservation is predominantly an exercise in trying to change human behaviour–whether
that of consumers whose choices drive unsustainable resource use, of land managers …

Agroforestry, or the intentional integration of trees on crop or pastureland, is a sustainable
land use system that provides ecosystem services including climate change mitigation and …