Systematic review of conservation interventions to promote voluntary behavior change.

ABSTRACT: Understanding human behavior is vital to developing interventions that effectively lead to proenvironmental behavior change, whether the focus is at the individual or societal level. However, interventions in many fields have historically lacked robust forms of evaluation, which makes it hard to be confident that these conservation interventions have successfully helped protect the environment. We conducted a systematic review to assess how effective nonpecuniary and nonregulatory interventions have been in changing environmental behavior. We applied the Office of Health Assessment and Translation systematic review methodology. We started with more than 300,000 papers and reports returned by our search terms and after critical appraisal of quality identified 128 individual studies that mer

SUBMITTER: Thomas-Walters L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10108067 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature