Tools for social research are critical for developing an understanding of conservation
problems and assessing the feasibility of conservation actions. Social surveys are an …

Nature conservation relies largely on peoples' rule adherence. However, noncompliance in
the conservation context is common: it is one of the largest illegal activities in the world …

Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and
geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences …

Acting to demarcate the spatial limits of decision-making processes, socio-political
boundaries are an inevitable part of a human-dominated world. Rarely coincident with …

Improvements have been made in identifying the prevalence of risk factors/indicators for
violent extremism. A consistent problem is the lack of base rates. How to develop base rates …

Ecosystems worldwide have a long history of use and management by indigenous cultures.
However, environmental degradation can reduce the availability of culturally important …

Within protected areas, biodiversity loss is often a consequence of illegal resource use.
Understanding the patterns and extent of illegal activities is therefore essential for effective …

Including stakeholders in environmental model building and analysis is an increasingly
popular approach to understanding ecological change. This is because stakeholders often …

In conservation understanding the drivers of behavior and developing robust interventions to
promote behavioral change is challenging and requires a multifaceted approach. This is …

The use of robust ecological data to make evidence-based management decisions for highly
threatened species is often limited by data availability, and local ecological knowledge …