Conservation Psychology Institute, Antioch University New England, Keene, New Hampshire, USA.
Science and Education Department, Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska, USA.
Zoo Biol. 2022 Sep;41(5):409-417. doi: 10.1002/zoo.21725. Epub 2022 Aug 17.
A growing number of environmental professionals are realizing that equitable and meaningful engagement of local community members in the development of programming is essential for catalyzing the durable, long-term action needed to conserve wildlife. Many who attempt to codesign programs with (not for) communities find that choosing the most effective strategies to accomplish this task is crucial and can oftentimes feel daunting. In this paper, a validated psychometric instrument called the Five Factors of Sustained Engagement (Five Factors) was used to analyze community engagement projects from two AZA-accredited institutions, highlighting how the leaders of each project believe they have fostered each factor in their projects. Professionals can use the Five Factors as guideposts and evaluation criteria to increase the long-term motivation of community members to engage in conservation efforts over time. The discussion offers strategies that psychological research has shown to increase long-term motivation for wildlife conservation and suggest how to implement them in the codesign of conservation programming with the communities that are impacted by it the most. Together, this synthesis offers an innovative, psychology-based approach to fostering and evaluating the success of sustainable community engagement for conservation Wildlife conservation projects are rarely su long-term engagement from the humans who are most impacted by those projects.
越来越多的环境专业人士意识到，让当地社区成员公平、有意义地参与项目的制定，对于推动保护野生动物所需的持久、长期行动至关重要。许多人试图与社区共同设计方案，但他们发现选择最有效的策略来完成这项任务至关重要，而且往往令人望而生畏。在本文中，我们使用了一种经过验证的心理计量学工具，称为“持续参与的五个因素”（Five Factors），来分析来自两个 AZA 认可机构的社区参与项目，突出每个项目的领导者如何认为他们在项目中培养了每个因素。专业人士可以将五个因素用作指导方针和评估标准，以提高社区成员长期参与保护工作的积极性。讨论提供了心理研究表明可以增加野生动物保护长期动机的策略，并提出了如何在与受影响最大的社区共同设计保护项目时实施这些策略。总之，这种综合方法提供了一种创新的、基于心理学的方法，以促进和评估可持续社区参与保护的成功。野生动物保护项目很少能长期吸引受这些项目影响最大的人类的参与。
