Research - Natural Resource Social Science
Examining the social, economic, political, cultural, and institutional dimensions of environmental conservation and natural resource management decisions. Particular attention is given to how the awareness, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals and groups influence the protection, management, and sustainable use of natural resources.
Faculty:
Dr. Zhao Ma
Environmental and natural resource decision making by individual and organizational actors in the context of social-ecological change.
Dr. Mo Zhou
Information to come soon.
Areas of Specialization:
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
- Human Dimensionsof Global Environmental Change
- Natural Resource Policy
- Natural Resource Economics
- Natural Resource Decision Making
- Forest Economics
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FNR research centers seek to support and enhance the research and partnership enterprise at Purdue University. The centers are valued and encouraged at Purdue as they create a venue for faculty to come together to pursue common goals. Forestry and Natural Resources have faculty and staff involved in six centers here at the University.
The Department of Forestry and Natural Resources maintains an impressive collection of state-of-the-art research and education facilities. These labs, green houses and educational facilities are a fundamental component that enables our faculty and students to learn, make new discoveries and engage our clients in using these discoveries to sustain our nation’s ecosystems and natural resources.
The mission of the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources is to develop and disseminate knowledge in the natural resource sciences associated with the protection, management and sustainable use of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. One way the department accomplishes our mission is by owning and managing 24 properties located throughout the state to provide opportunities for research, extension and education that achieves sustainable use of our natural resources.
See Our Natural Resource Social Science Research Stories
Several Forestry and Natural Resources students, staff and recent alumni have been recognized for...
The Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Resources has named the recipients of its five...
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Katy Dix, a PhD student in Dr. Zhao Ma’s Human Dimensions Lab, was named as a recipient of...
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Dr. Zhao Ma will receive the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Specialty Group’s...