Research themes

Imperial College’s Conservation Science research falls within three broad themes: Incentives and attitudes of natural resource users; social-ecological system dynamics; management of natural resource use.

The first theme addresses the drivers of human behaviour, the second the feedbacks between behaviour and system dynamics, and the third the effects of interventions designed to alter behaviour and hence slow the rate of biodiversity loss. We also have a twenty year research programme on the saiga antelope in Central Asia.

Read about each of these research themes here.

Current projects

Details of specific projects that members of the group are currently working on can be found in the current projects section, while information about older projects can be located in our past projects section.