Highlights•Human behavior theories elucidate relationships between values and behavior
change.•Values transcend principles: they also refer to importance.•Value-related constructs …

Understanding why people do what they do is central to advancing equitable and
sustainable futures. Yet, theories about human action are fragmented across many social …

In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is
considered a powerful 'leverage point'in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social …

The world is facing unprecedented challenges on a scale that has never been seen before,
and the need for evidence-informed solutions has never been greater. As a result …

Wildlife conservation and management (WCM) practices have been historically drawn from
a wide variety of academic fields, yet practitioners have been slow to engage with emerging …

Methods are often thought of as neutral tools that researchers can pick up and use to learn
about a reality 'out there.'Motivated by growing recognition of complexity, there have been …

Insights into how public audiences perceive and relate to the ocean are pivotal to successful
societal engagement and integration of human dimensions in marine conservation …

Interdependent relationships among humans and nature often go overlooked, delaying
better environmental, social and public health outcomes. Emerging approaches have …

Understanding human behavior is vital to developing interventions that effectively lead to
proenvironmental behavior change, whether the focus is at the individual or societal level …

Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by
either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co‐optation (of social scientific …