Our Resources

CBEAR provides practical guides, publications, and virtual seminars
that apply to conservation programming. A selection of actionable
resource tools can be searched by name and category here.

Our Insights

CBEAR works with conservation program administrators and their partners to incorporate behavioral insights into program designs.

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People look to what others are doing as a guide for their own behavior.

The Pull of Social Comparisons

The most sophisticated programs are the simplest.

The Costs of Complexity

It’s not just how much incentive you offer, but how you offer it.

Gains from Avoiding Losses

Innovate by running experiments in your programs

Test, Learn, Adapt

Use this framework to strengthen your agri-environmental program with behavioral insights.

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Leveraging Randomness to Boost Participation

Overweighting Small Chances

Our Latest Publications

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Making More Effective Use of Behavioural Science in Conservation Interventions.

2021 Biological Conservation

Balmford, A, Bradbury, R., Bauer, JM, Broad, S., Burgess, G., Burgman, M., Byerly, H., Clayton, S., Espelosin, D., Ferraro, PJ, Fisher, B., Garnett, EE, Jones, JPG, Marteau, T., Otieno, M., Polasky, S., Ricketts, TH, Sandbrook, C., Trevelyan, R., van der Linden, S., Veríssimo, D., Nielsen, KS.

Using a Randomized Controlled Trial to Develop Strategies on Rented Farmlands

2021 Conservation Letters

Weigel, C%, S. Harden, Y Masuda, P Ranjan, C Wardropper, PJ Ferraro, L Prokopy,

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Biodiversity Conservation as a Promising Frontier for Behavioural Science

2021 Nature Human Behaviour

Nielsen, K. S., Marteau, T., Bauer, JM, Bradbury, RB, Broad, S., Burgess, G., Burgman, M., Byerly, H., Clayton, S., Espelosin, D., Ferraro, PJ, Fisher, B., Garnett, EE, Jones, JPG, Otieno, M., Polasky, S., Ricketts, TH, Trevelyan, R., van der Linden, S., Veríssimo, D., Balmford, A.