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Conservation in the face of ambivalent public perceptions – The case of peatlands as ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’

2017-02-01

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Most conservation efforts today recognise the need to involve the public if conservation is to succeed in the long-term. A common approach has been to try to educate the public on why they should care. However, information campaigns are often not effective in changing opinions, let alone behaviour. In this paper, we try establishing the basis for alternative approaches based on understanding people's motivations,...

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Literature Corpus work: c11cc658-1017-5509-9c98-a1dfe9a5f53a
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.12.022

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