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| Social Science Tools for Conservation Practitioners: Current Opportunities and Future Directions
Organizers: Michael Mascia and Adrian Treves (Michael.Mascia@wwfus.org)
Recent evidence suggests that social factors determine the success or failure of many - if not most -conservation programs, yet conservation practitioners have few scientific tools to address these social challenges. This workshop, organized by the SCB Social Science Working Group, will provide conservation practitioners with new social science tools and identify pressing social science needs. Workshop organizers will first introduce conservation practitioners to a range of social science tools and their conservation applications. Workshop participants will then identify additional priorities for social science tool development and capacity-building. Breakout groups will brainstorm social challenges, possible tools to address these challenges, and then identify practitioner priorities. This rapid “needs assessment” will feed into the third workshop component, a basic action planning phase, where the SSWG Board will work with motivated and knowledgeable social scientists and practitioners to outline a basic work plan for addressing these conservation needs.
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