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The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions. This book presents the theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach programmes for conservation. The authors describe an exciting array of techniques for enhancing school resources, marketing environmental messages, using social media, developing partnerships for conservation, and designing on-site programmes for parks and community centres. Vivid case studies
from around the world illustrate techniques and describe planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures, enabling readers to implement their own new ideas effectively.
Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques, now in its second edition and updated throughout, includes twelve chapters illustrated with numerous photographs showing education and outreach programmes in action, each incorporating an extensive bibliography. Helpful text boxes provide practical tips, guidelines, and recommendations for further exploration of the chapter topics. This book will be particularly relevant to conservation scientists, resource managers,
environmental educators, students, and citizen activists. It will also serve as a handy reference and a comprehensive text for a variety of natural resource and environmental professionals.
The conservation of biological diversity depends on people's knowledge and actions. This book presents the theory and practice for creating effective education and outreach programmes for conservation. The authors describe an exciting array of techniques for enhancing school resources, marketing environmental messages, using social media, developing partnerships for conservation, and designing on-site programmes for parks and community centres. Vivid case studies
from around the world illustrate techniques and describe planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures, enabling readers to implement their own new ideas effectively.
Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques, now in its second edition and updated throughout, includes twelve chapters illustrated with numerous photographs showing education and outreach programmes in action, each incorporating an extensive bibliography. Helpful text boxes provide practical tips, guidelines, and recommendations for further exploration of the chapter topics. This book will be particularly relevant to conservation scientists, resource managers,
environmental educators, students, and citizen activists. It will also serve as a handy reference and a comprehensive text for a variety of natural resource and environmental professionals.
1: Designing successful conservation education and outreach
2: Learning and teaching
3: Changing conservation behaviors
4: Conservation education in the schools
5: Making conservation come alive
6: Using the arts for conservation
7: Connecting classes and communities with conservation
8: Networking for conservation
9: Marketing conservation
10: Getting out your message with the written word
11: Taking advantage of technology
12: Designing on-site activities
Susan K. Jacobson is a Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor
in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and at the University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida. She teaches and conducts research on
the human dimensions of natural resource management and
environmental communication. She earned her Ph.D. degree in
resource ecology from Duke University. She is the author of
Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals, and has
published well over a hundred
journal articles about environmental management education and
natural resource conservation in the U.S., Latin America, Africa,
and Southeast Asia. She has served on the Board of Governors of the
Society
for Conservation Biology and the North American Association for
Environmental Education. Mallory McDuff teaches environmental
education at Warren Wilson College, a unique liberal arts school
that combines academics with work and service. She is the author of
Natural Saints: How People of Faith are Working to Protect the
Earth (OUP, 2010) and Sacred Acts: How Churches are Working to
Protect Earth's Climate (New Society Publishers, 2012). Her essays
and op-eds have been featured in USA Today,
Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, and Sojourners. She earned
her Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University
of Florida. Martha Monroe is an international leader in
environmental
education research and practice. Her research focuses on the
motivations for engagement and assessment of outcomes of effective
education programs. She has also conducted a number of evaluations
of formal and non-formal environmental education programs, led
professional development courses on program evaluation Education,
and co-authored Evaluating Your Environmental Education Programs.
She was recognized for her career achievements with the highest
awards given by the Association of Natural
Resource Extension Professionals and North American Association for
Environmental Education and has mentored over 100 graduate students
and authored over 100 book chapters and publications.
This book, by presenting a variety of techniques for conservation
outreach and education, sets out successfully to inspire and
encourage anyone interested in conservation education and outreach
to explore various techniques. [...]this volume is a very useful
tool for conservation practitioners with its wide variety of
techniques, information on planning, implementation, and
evaluation, and examples and cases.
*Sue McKee, The Quarterly Review of Biology*
Many will consider this book an essential addition to their library
as it provides a great overview of just about everything a
conservation professional would need to know to implement an
effective education and outreach program.
*Ecological Restoration Journal*
Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques, now in its second
edition, has already become a key reference for conservation
professionals hoping to dive into the human dimensions of applied
conservation. This updated version promises to cement this
status.
*Diogo Verissimo, Conservation Biology*
Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques is a valuable
inventory of reference
*Austral Ecology and Ecological Management and Restoration*
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