Harold Eyster

Read Ben's great synopsis + background to our new paper out in Ecology!

Harold N Eyster ‪The Nature Conservancy‬ - ‪‪Cited by 773‬‬ - ‪human–nature relationships‬ - ‪conservation science‬

Thanks! I'm an interdisciplinary scientist, includng social science! scholar.google.com/citations?us...

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.

Check out the rest of the special issue for lots of other great papers! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15231739...

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....

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/...

There are lots of opportunities to build on decades of social science theory, especially theories that will help enable transformative change.

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.

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.

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.

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?