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Gap analysis of social science resources for conservation practice

Conservation Biology
Abstract Conservation is an inherently social process—people collectively endeavor to enact conservation. Yet, in conservation social science, research methodologies, training, and competency are less common than in natural sciences.
Heidi E Kretser, Emiel De Lange, Harriet Ibbett   +2 more
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Social media data for conservation science: A methodological overview

Biological Conservation, 2019
Abstract Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have become an increasingly important source of information on human-nature interactions.
Tuuli Toivonen, Vuokko Heikinheimo
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Social Science Applications for the Practice of Equitable Conservation

Society and Natural Resources
Andrea Armstrong, Elizabeth Van Dolah, Brenda Gail Bergman, Mace Hack, Meera Bhat, Elizabeth Smith, John Legge   +6 more
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Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research

Conservation Biology
Abstract We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologists the desire to understand and address the biodiversity crisis, their analysis of structural power ...
Stasja Koot, Siân Sullivan, Robert Fletcher   +2 more
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Private land conservation decision-making: An integrative social science model

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
Owners and managers of private lands make decisions that have implications well beyond the boundaries of their land, influencing species conservation, water quality, wildfire risk, and other environmental outcomes with important societal and ecological consequences.
Rebecca S, Epanchin-Niell, Douglas B, Jackson-Smith, Robyn S, Wilson, Matthew, Ashenfarb, Ashley A, Dayer, Vicken, Hillis, Gwenllian D, Iacona, Ezra M, Markowitz, Sandra T, Marquart-Pyatt, Tyler, Treakle   +9 more
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Energy conservation and the role of the social sciences

Energy Policy, 1981
Abstract In this article the author aims to provide a conceptual framework and a social scientific research paradigm for encouraging energy conservation by individuals and small businesses. Questions in the social sciences related to energy conservation are presented via a category system which divides conservation topics into microscopic and ...
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The Inclusion of Conservatives in Science: Acknowledging Liberal and Conservative Social Cognition to Improve Public Science Attitudes

2020
The chapter suggests that individual social cognitive processes have an impact on the interplay between political ideology, higher education, and science. In the roles of citizens, voters, politicians, students, professors, and scientists, these ideological differences can lead to distrust between groups.
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Challenges and opportunities for integrating social science in a conservation nongovernmental organization

Conservation Biology
Abstract Although the importance of social science to conservation practice and policy is well accepted, social scientists remain in the minority in conservation nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We explored how social science has started to inform the work of WWT, an NGO dedicated to the restoration of wetlands for people and ...
Sara A. Thornton, Will Freeman, Lucy L. Jupe, Julia L. Newth, Jonathan P. Reeves, Kevin A. Wood, Stephen Woroniecki   +6 more
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Focusing on structure and process to integrate and mainstream the social sciences in conservation

Conservation Biology, 2017
Bennett and colleagues (2016) discerningly point out calls to integrate the social and natural sciences in conservation are “now routine.” Yet, these calls have a limited effect as they continue to go unheeded, although “everyone working in conservation, it seems, recognizes that natural science alone cannot solve conservation problems”.
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Comments on an Interdisciplinary Social Science Approach for Conservation Administration

BioScience, 1970
An abstract of 75 words or less must accompany the manuscript; therefore, a summary is not required. FOOTNOTES: Unpublished documents and personal communications should be cited in the text by footnotes. Foot- notes should be indicated by consecu- tive, superscript numerals rather than by astericks or other symbols.
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