A Guide to Understanding Social Science Research for Natural Scientists

By Katie Moon, Deborah Blackman. Conservation Biology, 2014

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Recreational cultural ecosystem services: How do people describe the value? (2017, background): “Alternative theories and analytical strategies start from different ontologies, adhere to different epistemologies and draw on different methods thus giving rise to a variety of framings of complex human-nature interaction (Moon and Blackman, 2014).”
Using perceptions as evidence to improve conservation and environmental management (2016, background): “…of a different environmental policy), and individual and collective attributes (e.g., gender, race), values, norms, beliefs, preferences, knowledge, and motivations mediate and influence perceptions (Slovic 2000; Munhall 2008; Satterfield et al. 2009; Moon & Blackman 2014; Levine et al. 2015).”
Cute, Creepy, or Crispy—How Values, Attitudes, and Norms Shape Human Behavior Toward Bats (2016, background): “The scientific training of most bat biologists leaves us illequipped both practically (St John et al. 2010, 2014) and philosophically (Moon and Blackman 2014) and often extraordinarily naïve, when it comes to dealing with people.”