Making behavioral science work for conservation
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those outcomes, conservation has always been about people and their behavior, about those choices we’ve all made that have led to the biodiversity crisis we now face. That makes behavior change essential to the work conservationists do: Shifting people away from actions that drive biodiversity loss and toward those that sustain nature. And let’s face it: Despite important successes, we haven’t shifted behavior at the scale or pace the crisis demands.
Source: Apollo (University of Cambridge)
DOI: 10.17863/cam.124719
Authors: Bujold, PM, Burgess, G, Reisch, LA
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7124178687
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