Engagement Wayfinder, USFWS
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Engagement Wayfinder is an orientation to public engagement. Public engagement enables the government to incorporate public concerns, needs, and values into projects and decisions. It is sometimes used interchangeably with other terms like public participation, stakeholder engagement, and community engagement. Central to all of these terms is the idea […]
Africatown Connections Blueway: Healing Begins by Reclaiming Our Heritage & Happiness
Liz Smith-Incer, NPS RTCA Field Office Director for Mississippi and Puerto Rico Mississippi
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences […]
Bringing Social Values to Wildlife Conservation Decisions
Sustainable conservation of wildlife is contingent upon the human context in which it occurs. Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions. Using data obtained from a survey of 46,894 US residents, we developed and applied a spatially explicit “sociocultural […]
America’s Wildlife Values: The Social Context of Wildlife Management in the U.S.
The purpose of the America’s Wildlife Values Project was to assess the social context of wildlife management in the U.S. to understand the growing conflict around wildlife management. It is the first study of its kind to describe how U.S. residents within and across all 50 states think about wildlife, and how changing perspectives shape […]
Engaging the Public in Planning
Teri Tucker, NPS Planning & Compliance Lead (Environmental Protection Specialist) Mount Rainier National Park Washington Engaging the Public in Planning (ArcGIS Storymaps): Fryingpan Creek Bridge Replacement Project Mount Rainier National Park: Nisqually to Paradise Draft Corridor Management Plan NOTE: If you are asked to sign in to ArcGIS Online, select “cancel” to view […]
Collaborative Conservation: Spectrum of Public Engagement
Explore key concepts and best practices for making collaboration work. Collaboration is a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences, and search for solutions that go beyond what any one of them might have thought possible. This video was produced by the US Fish and […]
Social Network Analysis
Listen to this video as a podcast. Explore how social networks complement formal organizational networks. Discover the value of mapping professional networks to collaboration, innovation and problem solving. Learn the lingo of social network analysis and the role each plays in communications: Central Connectors, Brokers, Experts, Rising Stars and Knowledge Keepers. Discussion Questions: How […]
Principles of Risk Communication
A Guide to Communicating with Socially Vulnerable Populations Across the Disaster Lifecycle (April 2020) This document is intended to be used as a high-level guide for advancing risk communication best practices. It synthesizes academic research and available guidance on the topic of hazards and disaster risk communication. It draws from an array of evidence-based recommendations […]
Unsheltered Homelessness in Parks and Protected Areas in Northern California
Jesse Engebretson, EPA Social Science Researcher Office of Research and Development Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division Minnesota
