Human behavior is the cause of many contemporary natural resource issues but also represents the means by which solutions to those issues will more readily succeed. To explore human behavior—its antecedents, constraints and affordances, context-specific nature, and strategies to change it—my research uses theory from social psychology and other social/behavioral sciences in conjunction with survey research, experimental design, geographic information systems, and latent variable modeling methods. My research focuses on individual and group behavior alongside associated cognitive and social processes, with a particular concentration on norms, institutions, and values, in the context of natural resource management and conservation. As such, my research is situated within the interdisciplinary fields of the human dimensions of natural resources, environmental and conservation psychology, and natural resource communications.
