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  • Understanding decision-making through disciplinary theories

    2023.05.30.

    Thousands of research studies, position papers and articles draw attention to the threat of biodiversity loss, yet the issue is still not on the top of policy-maker’s priority list. Why? What will change the mindset of decision-makers and what factors have significant impact on decision-making? The new report of PLANET4B collects and classifies a range of frameworks, theories, models, and concepts across a gradient of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional levels of intervention to provide an inventory of behavioural- and social [...]

  • Key theoretical approaches to help us improve biodiversity decision making 

    2023.05.25.

    Do we make certain decisions because we want to avoid risks or because as women we care more or because the system defined it for us? Within PLANET4B, we want to fill a gap and map existing knowledge that explains why we make certain decisions. In this way, we can understand better how biodiversity can be prioritised in our decision making so we can avoid rampant levels of biodiversity loss. To understand what knowledge has been already collated within various [...]