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Insect conservation psychology [PDF]
People seek connectedness with nature, as evidenced by 8 billion people per year visiting terrestrial parks alone. Yet the challenge is for people to appreciate and care for nature, including insects, on which we so crucially depend for so many services.
J. Simaika, M. Samways
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Towards a ‘just’ conservation psychology
Climate change and biodiversity loss are serious concerns for environmental researchers and conservationists. However, the impact of climate change and biodiversity loss disproportionately affects low-income communities, indigenous groups, and people of ...
Stephanie E. Klarmann, B. Barnes
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Pedagogical Innovation: Towards Conservation Psychology and Sustainability [PDF]
Pedagogical innovation is one of the solutions to the challenges facing the educational system; it is a mediator for change and adaptation. The objective of education is to go more than rationality and involve creativity; the development of creativity is
Marco Heredia-R +3 more
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Correction to: Insect conservation psychology [PDF]
The article Insect conservation psychology, written by John P. Simaika, Michael J. Samways was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 21 February 2018 without open access.
J. Simaika, M. Samways
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THEORETICAL BASES GUIDING CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to present a brief review of the most relevant theories used to explain pro-environmental behavior. Scientific theories allow us to capture complex relationships, key to understanding real-world problems, and they facilitate the ...
Víctor Corral-Verdugo +2 more
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Local attitudes towards wildlife encompass environmental, political, sociocultural and psychological dimensions that shape human-wildlife interactions and conservation efforts.
Mar Cabeza +2 more
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Understanding and shaping human action towards nature conservation is critical to reversing the biodiversity crisis. Psychological science provides tools for understanding individual and collective behaviours, but also for understanding how the behaviour
Lily M. van Eeden +4 more
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Finding Purpose in the Conservation of Biodiversity by the Commingling of Science and Ethics
Averting the biodiversity crisis requires closing a gap between how humans tend to behave, individually and collectively, and how we ought to behave—“ought to” in the sense of behaviors required to avert the biodiversity crisis. Closing that gap requires
John A. Vucetich +5 more
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Human relationships with nature are increasingly being recognized as an important factor in environmental conservation. Understanding how people perceive and know nature, and the language they use to describe nature, their concepts of nature, could have ...
Melissa Hatty +3 more
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