Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary conservation scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Opinions my own.
Environmental science
64%
Geography
16%
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
Harold N Eyster
The Nature Conservancy - Cited by 773 - human–nature relationships - conservation science
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Thanks! I'm an interdisciplinary scientist, includng social science! scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
Special Issue: Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences: Conservation Biology: Vol 39, No 2
<em>Conservation Biology</em> is the leading global journal in the field of conservation, publishing groundbreaking papers contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.
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Check out the rest of the special issue for lots of other great papers! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15231739...
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
Use of theories of human action in recent conservation research
Social sciences are increasingly recognized as useful for reorienting human action toward environmental conservation. Fully realizing the social sciences’ potential requires applying social science m....
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Thanks to great co-authors Rachelle Gould, Kai Chan, and Terre Satterfield and funding from Gund Institute for Environment. Read it for free here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
There are lots of opportunities to build on decades of social science theory, especially theories that will help enable transformative change.
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
But these theories were dominated by just a few theories that try to explain individual, short-term actions. We present a map to help scientists adopt a broader set of human action theories.
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
We examined all papers published in 2023 in leading conservation journals and found that about 1/3 were social science, and about 1/3 of social papers on human action used human action theories.
Harold Eyster
@haroldeyster.bsky.social
· Apr 19
Special Issue: Trends and Future Directions in the Conservation Social Sciences: Conservation Biology: Vol 39, No 2
<em>Conservation Biology</em> is the leading global journal in the field of conservation, publishing groundbreaking papers contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
New paper out in Conservation Biology on social science in conservation:
How much conservation research is social science? And does this social science benefit from theory about why people do what they do?
How much conservation research is social science? And does this social science benefit from theory about why people do what they do?