Title
Fostering Collective Effort Toward Ecosystem Conservation
Department/School
Earth, Environment, and Society
Date
2019
Document Type
Article
Keywords
environmental changes, social behavior, social organization, transformation, social networks, cognitive ability, political change, conservation organizations, human behavior
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911900006
Abstract
For human society to thrive amidst our changing environmental realities, we must alter our behavior. Individual change, while important, is unreliable due to cognitive and social barriers. An important nexus for the required transformation is at the collective level. Rather than encouraging individuals to engage in personal climate-friendly behavior, our efforts must focus on individuals changing their social networks, engaging in political change, and transforming the organizations in their community, such as corporations, NGOs, boards, and governments. Formal and informal leaders make daily decisions which influence the organizational structures that propel large-scale human behavior change. This scale of change is more in line with the scope needed to successfully persist into the future on this planet.
Published in
E3S Web of Conferences
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Citation/Other Information
Amel E.L., Manning, C.M. (2019). Fostering Collective Effort Toward Ecosystem Conservation. E3S Web of Conferences, 119(00006), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911900006