The utility of a psychological approach to human behaviour in applied conservation practice

Thesis

With increasing awareness of the scope for social science techniques to be tools for delivering conservation impact, it is timely that conservation psychology be developed as an applied discipline. In seeking to understand why people behave in the ways that they do, tools and techniques from applied psychology can be used to encourage pro-conservation behaviour, and emphasising these practical outputs is key to the urgently needed wider uptake of this currently fringe discipline. At prese...

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Authors: Perry, L

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-mvqygydor
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: conservation psychology; social science; psychology; livestock management; human-predator conflict
• Subjects: Wildlife conservation; Social sciences and psychology; Conservation