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Education

• BSc, University of Deschang
• PhD, University of Minnesota
• PDF, University of Minnesota

Research interests

Dr. Asah uses social psychological principles and complex adaptive systems thinking to explore and inform environmentally significant behaviors, including management practices and policy.听 Stanley Asah鈥檚 primary research focus is in Cleaner Sociotechnical systems with interests in using human behavioral sciences to explore: (i) the adoption, retention and diffusion of cleaner technologies, (ii) the social impacts, justice and acceptability of cleaner technologies, and (iii) behavioral change strategies, management practices and decision making and policy options to facilitate the adoption, retention and diffusion of cleaner technologies and technical practices, and to facilitate sociotechnical change.

Selected publications

Please review recent publications on聽.听

• Asah, ST, Maris, V, Subramanian, SM, Blahna, DJ, Stenseke, M, Chacon-Cascante, A. 2023. Value exclusion in social-scientific approaches for assessing and valuing ecosystem features: Implications for behavioral compliance. BioScience, 73(9), 663-670.
• Asah, ST, Blahna, DJ. 2020. Involving Stakeholders鈥� knowledge in co-designing social valuations of biodiversity and ecosystem services: Implications for decision-making. Ecosystems 23, 324鈥�337
• Asah, ST, Baral, N. 2018. Technicalizing Non-technical Participatory Social Impact Assessment of Prospective Cellulosic Biorefineries: Psychometric Quantification and Implications. Applied Energy, 232, 462-472.听
• Reddy, SMW, Montambault, J, Masuda, YJ, Keenan, E, Butler, W, Fisher, JRB, Asah ST, & Gneezy, A. 2017. Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior. Conservation Letters, 10(2), 248-256
• Asah, ST. 2015. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Human Agency and the Inoperability of the Sustainable Development Architecture. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 16(4):631-636
• Asah, ST. 2015. Transboundary Hydro-Politics and Climate Change Rhetoric: An Emerging Hydro-Security Complex in the Lake Chad Basin.听Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water,聽2(1):37鈥�45
• Asah, ST, Guerry, AD, Blahna, DJ, Lawler, JJ. 2014. Perception, Acquisition and Use of Ecosystem Services: Human Behavior, and Ecosystem Management and Policy Implications.听Ecosystem Services,聽10:180-186
• Asah, ST.听2014.听聽Professionals鈥� Perspectives: Exploring the Occupational and Organizational Psychology of Community-Agency Interactions in Forest Fire Management.听Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research,聽87(4):552-561
• Asah, ST, Blahna. D. 2013. Practical Implications of Understanding the Influence of Motivations on Commitment to Voluntary Urban Conservation Stewardship.听Conservation Biology,聽27(4):866-875
• Asah, ST, Nelson, KC, Bengston, DN. 2008. Managing Social-Ecological Change and Uncertainty: Floodplain Agriculture and Conservation in Dryland Northern Cameroon.听Conservation & Society,听6(2):166-178

Selected Awards and Service

• Faculty of the Year Teaching Award, University of Washington (2011)
• 贰诲颈迟辞谤-滨苍-颁丑颈别蹿,听Environment & Behavior聽journal (2019-2014)
• International Advisory Board:聽Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water听(2013-辫谤别蝉别苍迟)
• Associate Editor-Social Sciences:聽Journal of Forestry听(2013-2016)
• Associate Editor-Human Dimensions and Recreation:聽Journal of Forestry (2010-2013)
• Review Editor, IPBES 1st聽Global Assessment (2017-2019)
• Advisory Council to US Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking (2013-2015)
• Faculty Senate, 麻豆社 (2024-)

Teaching

• ENVI 5500: Sociopolitical Dimensions of Resource and Environmental Management
• Special Topics: Society, Cleaner Technologies & Human Behavior