Session 11: Valuing Nature

Presentations

• Thinking Like A Social Scientist
•  Socioeconomic Profile Tools

Additional Resources: Social Science

• USFWS Stakeholder Engagement Wayfinder website 

• Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation, Bennett et al. 2017 (PDF)

• The changing sociocultural context of wildlife conservation, by Manfredo et al. 2020

• Bringing social values to wildlife conservation decisions by Manfredo et al. 2021 (PDF)

• America's Wildlife Values Report (PDF)

• Social Science Summit Report (PDF)

• Social Science in Action Examples from the USFWS (PDF)

Additional Resources: Social Science Tools

• Socioeconomic and Environmental Justice Data Sites (PDF, Matt Fockler)

• Headwaters Economics website

• EPS Tool suite 

• Agency specific portals: BLM, USFWS, USDA FS

Optional Homework

• Practical Considerations for Social Science Research in Natural Resource Management (PDF)

• Explore the EPS Tool (PDF)

Instructors: Anne Desmarais, Academy; Natalie Sexton, USFWS Human Dimensions; and Matt Fockler, BLM