Scaling up human and animal decision-making for effective conservation action
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Decision-making is at the heart of conservation. Governments decide how much funding to allocate to which initiatives, and managers decide how to spend the money most effectively to monitor and conserve biodiversity. At the smaller scale, local people decide how to use and conserve the biodiversity in their area. Any change in a person's incentives will alter their decision-making, which feeds back into their behaviour...
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Nick Hill
PhD student
An ecologist by background, my interest lies in the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. This interest has led me to pursue a greater understanding of the socio-economics of resource exploitation... -
Sarah Papworth
PhD student
My work focuses on the interaction between people and the environment, particularly human use of resources and their impact on the behaviour of exploited species. I am also interested in using interdisciplinary methodology and theory to tackle these issues... -
Tom Clements
PhD student
My interests focus on how incentives for environmental conservation operate and affect human behaviour across multiple scales and different institutional arrangements. Over the past 10 years I have worked on the...
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