Practicing the cultural green economy: where now for environmental social science?

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Barr
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Environmental Social Science

scholarly journals The impact of nature-based interventions on public health: a review using pathways, mechanisms and behaviour change techniques from environmental social science and health behaviour change

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s7 ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
Stephanie Wilkie ◽  
Nicola Davinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Change Techniques ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Environmental Social Science

The aim of this narrative review is to explore whether nature-based interventions improved individual public health outcomes and health behaviours, using a conceptual framework that included pathways and pathway domains, mechanisms, and behaviour change techniques derived from environmental social science theory and health behaviour change models. A two-stage scoping methodology was used to identified studies published between 2000 and 2021. Peer reviewed, English-language reports of nature-based interventions with adults (N = 9) were included if the study met the definition of a health�behaviour change intervention and reported at least one measured physical/mental health outcome. Interventions focused on the restoring or building capacities pathway domains as part of the nature contact/experience pathway; varied health behaviour change mechanisms and techniques were present but environmental social-science-derived mechanisms to influence health outcomes were used less. Practical recommendations for future interventions include explicit statement of the targeted level of causation, as well as utilisation of both environmental social science and health behaviour change theories and varied public health outcomes to allow simultaneously testing of theoretical predictions.

scholarly journals Political ecology and decolonial research: co-production with the Iñupiat in Utqiaġvik

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Laura Zanotti ◽  
Courtney Carothers ◽  
Charlene Aqpik Apok ◽  
Sarah Huang ◽  
Jesse Coleman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Environmental Social Science

Environmental social science research designs have shifted over the past several decades to include an increased commitment to multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary team-based work that have had dual but complementary foci. These address power and equity in the substantive aspects of research, and also to adopt more engaged forms of practice, including decolonial approaches. The fields of political ecology, human geography, and environmental anthropology have been especially open to converge with indigenous scholarship, particularly decolonial and settler colonial theories and research designs, within dominant human-environmental social science paradigms. Scholars at the forefront of this dialogue highlight the ontological (ways of knowing), epistemological (how we know), and institutional (institutions of higher education) transformations that need to occur in order for this to take place. In this article we contribute to this literature in two ways. First, we highlight the synergies between political ecology and decolonial scholarship, particularly focusing on the power dynamics in research programs and historical legacies of human-environmental relationships, including those of researchers. Second, we explore how decolonial research pushes political ecologists and other environmental social scientists to not only consider adopting international and local standards of working with, by and for Indigenous Peoples within research programs but how this work ultimately extends to research and education within their home institutions and organizations. Through integrating decolonized research practices in the environmental social sciences, we argue that synthesizing multiple knowledge practices and transforming institutional structures will enhance team-based environmental social science work to improve collaboration with Indigenous scientists, subsistence practitioners, agency representatives, and sovereign members of Indigenous communities.Keywords: Alaska; collaboration; co-production; decolonial; Indigenous Knowledges; Iñupiaq Peoples

Ecogender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damayanti Banerjee ◽  
Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Social Science
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