To add a serendipitous find to Stephen's list. I just noticed this book earlier today while ordering a different one!
Clayton, S & Myers, G. (2009). Conservation Psychology. Understanding and promoting human care for nature. Wiley Blackwell All the best, Caitriona On 1 June 2011 15:33, Stephen Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded on- and offline. I have some > interesting reading to do Here’s a compilation of suggestions for > reading or websites: > > Recognizing this problem (which is not just marine-related!) Paul > Ehrlich and others started the Millenium Assessment of Human Behavior - > MAHB – a few years ago. Here's the website: > > http://mahbsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/paul-ehrlichs-invitation/ > > . . . they have a newsletter that comes out now and then. You probably > can sign up for it on the website. > > You might be interested in reading the literature on Conservation > Psychology. Saunders 2003 > (http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her102/102saunders.pdf ) > gives an overview of what the field is all about. > As for social scientists working on marine ecosystems (but not climate > change specifically), you might want to look at the work of Michael > Mascia and Joshua Cinner - they both look at social aspects of marine > protected area management. > > political ecology . . . Acheson et al's work on chaotic fisheries comes > immediately to mind. Geographers such as Matthew Turner and Lisa > Naughton . . . work across the disciplines in their own research. > > With regard to relevant references in the social science literature -- > Paul Ringold says this is a good place to start -- > http://www.csc.noaa.gov/socialscience/ > > 1. The American Psychological Association (APA) has a division, > Conservation Psychology; I seem to recall that this division's webpage > has a link or two to journals related to social science and conservation > 2. Several years ago (~2007-8?) the Society for Conservation Biology > (SCB) had an outreach to social scientists that was well-publicized and, > as I recall, well-received; if I remember correctly, a significant > number of papers, comments, and letters to the editor were published in > Conservation Biology about the initiative(s). I also think that the > topic of engaging social scientists in the society's affairs/programs > was addressed at at least one annual meeting. I don't read Conservation > Biology regularly any longer; thus, can't say whether the initiatives > are ongoing. > > Engagement of sociologists in marine ecosystem research is a matter of > finding those sociologists who have taken this research path. Try google > search on topics such as 'traditional ecological knowledge' > > we do not have the information necessary to fully evaluate > socio-economic impacts for many fisheries. . . This issue was also > recently discussed on the FISHFOLK listserv. > . . . there is some excellent work being done...most recently, DC > Wilson's The Paradoxes of Transparency: Science and the Ecosystem > Approach to Fisheries, which is a more anthropological/human ecology > study, but has some good insight into communication of science, which > would also be relevant to climate change outreach. > > Have a look at 'Words of the Lagoon' by Johannes. [R. E. Johannes. > 1992. Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District > of Micronesia] > > Barbara Neis, David C. Schneider, Lawrence Felt, Richard L. Haedrich, > Johanne Fischer, and Jeffrey A. Hutchings. 1999. Fisheries assessment: > what can be learned from interviewing resource users? Can. J. Fish. > Aquat. Sci. 56: 1949–1963. > > Stephen S. Hale > [email protected] >
