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SUMMARY:Saving forests with love? Connection with nature at a tropical def
 orestation frontier - Dr. Kasia Mikolajczak
DTSTART:20190416T120000Z
DTEND:20190416T130000Z
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CONTACT:Peadar Brehony
DESCRIPTION:Conservation has traditionally relied primarily on the ‘carr
 ot and stick’ approaches of legal restrictions and economic incentives t
 o motivate the protection of nature. Much less attention has been paid to 
 intrinsic motivations for conservation\, such as “loving nature”. Will
  this change in future? Motivated by interest in the role that feelings an
 d emotions such as love for nature play in biodiversity conservation\, Kas
 ia’s PhD focused on psychological nature connection – the self-identif
 ication with nature and emotional attachment to the natural world. Using a
  quantitative survey in a farming population at an Amazonian deforestation
 \, the research challenges persistent conventional wisdoms in conservation
 \, including that poor people don’t care for nature beyond material bene
 fits\, and that caring about nature is dependent on knowledge of the natur
 al world. Here she will discuss what this means for conservation in practi
 ce and some exciting questions that it opens up for future research.
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101 (first floor)\, Downing Site\, Cambridge
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