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School for Cross-faculty Studies

Workshop 25-26 June

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This page brings together everything from our recent workshop on social impact assessments for conservation projects. You'll find the presentations, useful resources, and a selection of related academic and policy articles. It's all here in one place to explore, revisit, and keep the learning going.

Presentation slides

First slide of the presentation

Notes from the group activities

SOCIAT publications

SOCIAT was the result of the 5-year project FIDELIO funded by the European Research Council. The results of the project have been published in 14 academic publications so far, available on this pageLink opens in a new window.

A list of the social impact assessments is available on the SOCIAT pageLink opens in a new window.

SOCIAT survey tool manual

Theory of Change

Example interview guide

Additional Resources

Anton, C. E., & Lawrence, C. (2016). The relationship between place attachment, the theory of planned behaviour and residents’ response to place change.Journal of Environmental Psychology, 47, 145–154. Available here.

Bennett et al. (2017). Conservation Social Science: Understanding and Integrating human dimensions to improve conservation. Biological Conservation, 205, 93-108. Available here

De Groot, J. I. M., & Steg, L. (2008). Value orientations to explain beliefs related to environmentally significant behavior: How to measure egoistic, altruistic and biospheric value orientations.Environment and Behavior, 40, 330–354. Available here.

Díaz, S., Pascual, U., Stenseke, M., Martín-López, B., Watson, R. T., Molnár, Z., Hill, R., Chan, K. M. A., Baste, I. A., Brauman, K. A., Polasky, S., Church, A., Lonsdale, M., Larigauderie, A., Leadley, P. W., van Oudenhoven, A. P. E., van der Plaat, F., Schröter, M., Lavorel, S., ... Shirayama, Y. (2018). Assessing nature’s contributions to people.Science,359 (6373), 270-272. Available here.

Gall, S. C., & Rodwell, L. D. (2016). Evaluating the social acceptability of Marine Protected Areas.Marine Policy, 65, 30–38. Available here.

Hertel, S. W., & Luther, D. (2023). The role of social and political factors in the success of rewilding projects.Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4, Article 1205380. Available here.

Lamont, R. A., & Hinson, C. (2024).A narrative review of reviews of nature exposure and human health and well-being in the UK(NEER030). Natural England. Available via this link: https://www.gov.uk/natural-englandLink opens in a new window Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window

McGinnis, M. D., & Ostrom, E. (2014). Social-ecological system framework: Initial changes and continuing challenges. Ecology and Society, 19, 30. Available here.

Suich, H. and Dawson, N. (2023). Review of methods for assessing the social impacts of conservation. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. Available here