Understanding the role of pluralistic ignorance in biodiversity conservation: A research agenda

IF 9.1 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103043

Sandra J. Geiger , Hirotaka Imada , Carya Maharja , Nattavudh Powdthavee , Valeria Vitale , Lei Zhang , Claudio D. Rosa , Zenith N.C. Delabrida , Kristian S. Nielsen , Franz Essl , Mathew P. White

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Abstract

Most people believe that biodiversity loss is human-caused, yet they may not realize how many others share this belief. Such collective misperceptions—known as pluralistic ignorance—may hinder individual and system changes required to address biodiversity loss. At the same time, reducing pluralistic ignorance may promote positive change. In this Perspective, we provide a brief overview of existing work on pluralistic ignorance about environmental topics and propose an agenda for impactful pluralistic ignorance research in the biodiversity domain. We highlight several research gaps and offer recommendations, including (a) investigating different forms of pluralistic ignorance, (b) improving our understanding of consequences and determinants, and (c) broadening the intervention toolkit to counter pluralistic ignorance for biodiversity conservation. To increase the Perspective’s practical applicability, we describe historical and contemporary case studies on pluralistic ignorance and biodiversity conservation from around the globe.

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理解多元无知在生物多样性保护中的作用：一个研究议程

大多数人认为生物多样性的丧失是人为造成的，然而他们可能没有意识到有多少人也持这种观点。这种集体误解——被称为多元无知——可能会阻碍应对生物多样性丧失所需的个人和系统变革。同时，减少多元无知可能促进积极的变化。在这一观点中，我们简要概述了关于环境主题多元无知的现有工作，并提出了生物多样性领域有影响力的多元无知研究议程。我们强调了几个研究空白并提出了建议，包括(a)调查不同形式的多元无知，(b)提高我们对后果和决定因素的理解，以及(c)扩大干预工具包以对抗生物多样性保护的多元无知。为了增加视角的实际适用性，我们描述了来自全球的关于多元无知和生物多样性保护的历史和当代案例研究。

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Global Environmental Change 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

18.20

自引率

2.20%

发文量

146

审稿时长

12 months

期刊介绍： Global Environmental Change is a prestigious international journal that publishes articles of high quality, both theoretically and empirically rigorous. The journal aims to contribute to the understanding of global environmental change from the perspectives of human and policy dimensions. Specifically, it considers global environmental change as the result of processes occurring at the local level, but with wide-ranging impacts on various spatial, temporal, and socio-political scales. In terms of content, the journal seeks articles with a strong social science component. This includes research that examines the societal drivers and consequences of environmental change, as well as social and policy processes that aim to address these challenges. While the journal covers a broad range of topics, including biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources, it also welcomes contributions that investigate the drivers, consequences, and management of other areas affected by environmental change. Overall, Global Environmental Change encourages research that deepens our understanding of the complex interactions between human activities and the environment, with the goal of informing policy and decision-making.