The Relational Foundations of Conservation Psychology

Ecopsychology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradford J. Wiggins ◽  
Joseph A. Ostenson ◽  
Dennis C. Wendt
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Psychology

scholarly journals Towards Stimulating Tools for Advancement of Environmental Conservation through Promoting of Psychological Instruments

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Md. Rahimullah Miah ◽  
Mohamed Sharif Mustaffa ◽  
Samsiah Jayos ◽  
Nor Hasniah Ibrahim ◽  
Sopian Bujang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Conservation Psychology ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Psychological Instruments

The explorative field observation on Environmental Conservation Psychology (ECP) is multi-diversified with collective and conjectural outlook. ECP provides a better understanding of the way in which conservation awareness, attitude, ethics, culture and well-being are affected by physical environments, social settings and built-in environment. The goal is to stimulate more attention be paid to ensure the effectiveness of environmental conservation and highlight psychological instruments required to develop new interdisciplinary approaches with innovative ways in prevailing challenges for the present and upcoming generations. Primary data were collected from a sample of respondents at the Lawachara National Park (LNP) in Moulvibazar district of Bangladesh and secondary data were obtained from diverse sources. The research denoted and investigated by various disciplines and fields including environmental behaviors studies, positive psychology, person-environment studies, human-nature science and ecological psychology. The study showed about 70% of indigenous respondents opined on positive attitudes for environmental conservation to compare with 55% in others. The study identified approximately 65% of respondents stated for development of environmental education among local communities for promoting positive psychology surrounding the national park. This study focuses the importance of understanding this multidimensional psychological research as it is to inform about the environmental conservation perspectives that have contributed to and shaped the learning with high internal conservation stability, dependability, uniformity, and attractiveness with social bonding at LNP. This study represents the environmental design, manage, protect and restore conserving of biodiversity towards national parks that influence human behavior, predict and the likely outcomes when these conditions are not met and diagnose problem situations. This study links at solving complex environmental conservation problems in the pursuit of individual well-being within a longer community through human-environment conservation interactions.

scholarly journals Insect conservation psychology

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 635-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Simaika ◽  
Michael J. Samways
Keyword(s):  
Insect Conservation ◽  
Conservation Psychology

scholarly journals Systematic map of conservation psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1339-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Wallen ◽  
Adam C. Landon
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Psychology ◽  
Systematic Map

scholarly journals Historical shifts in local attitudes towards wildlife by Maasai pastoralists of the Amboseli Ecosystem (Kenya): Insights from three conservation psychology theories

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 125763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares ◽  
David Western ◽  
Kathleen A. Galvin ◽  
Pamela McElwee ◽  
Mar Cabeza
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Psychology

scholarly journals The Application of Persuasive Communication Theory to Promote Visitor Conservation Behaviour at Wellington Zoo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Edith A. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
The Body ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Conservation Psychology ◽  
Conservation Action ◽  
Visitor Perceptions ◽  
The Impact

<p>Zoos can play a key role in conservation by facilitating behaviour change in their 600 million visitors annually. However, while numerous articles reinforce the potential zoos have in influencing conservation behaviour in visitors, only a few zoos have quantified the impact a visit has on visitor conservation behaviour. In this thesis, I applied a persuasive communication framework to develop a conservation communication campaign at Wellington Zoo, New Zealand. My results make a significant contribution to the body of literature that evaluates communicating conservation behaviour to zoo visitors and suggest future directions zoos can take to achieve their goal of facilitating conservation behaviour in their visitors. In Study 1, I determined visitor perceptions of conservation wildlife threats and the corresponding actions that could be taken to alleviate these threats. Visitor perceptions were biased towards global awareness of conservation threats with less awareness of local threats, a condition referred to as environmental hyperopia. Furthermore, there was an expert-lay discrepancy in the perception of local and global threats and mitigating actions. Based on these results, two conservation behaviours were selected to advocate to zoo visitors. To determine the content of the message, I applied the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Study 2 to identify the variables (attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioural control) linked to behavioural intention. The variance in visitor intentions for bringing cats in at night and for purchasing FSC wood products were explained by the TPB constructs, with visitor attitudes and norms both strongly linked to intention. Past behaviour also played a role in the habitual behaviour of bringing cats in at night, but not the non-habit forming behaviour of purchasing FSC wood products. In Study 3, I tested which method of communication (signs or animal talks) was the most effective for communicating conservation behaviours. I also tested if talks and signs based on the Elaboration Likelihood Model, implemented after a staff training programme, were more likely to increase visitor satisfaction, relevancy, and elaboration, all key cognitive components that ultimately influence behaviour change. Signs were an ineffective method to communicate conservation messages but animal talks were much more effective in communicating conservation messages to visitors. However, elaboration did not increase after the training programme. This could reflect that the training programme was ineffective and a more intense training programme may need to be implemented in the future. It is also possible that visitors enter the zoo with an already high level of elaboration and attending a keeper talk is not sufficient to increase visitor elaboration above the threshold. Results of this thesis have implications for how zoo programming to enhance zoos’ abilities to foster conservation action in their visitors. Additionally, my results also have broader implications to the field of conservation psychology and provide insight for environmental communication community.</p>

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