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The Center for Behavior & the Environment translates science into practice and leverages the best behavioral insights and design thinking approaches to tackle some of the most challenging environmental issues. Through partnerships with leading academic and research institutions, we are bringing the research into the field to connect the next generation of behavioral scientists with practitioners on the front lines of our greatest environmental challenges.

The BE.Center is producing useful, sharp, and illuminating guidance that can really make a difference in solving big challenges for people and the planet.

Cass Sunstein, Harvard University, Author of Nudge

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Behavior Change for the Environment Starts Here

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Solution Search is a worldwide contest designed to source, reward, and promote innovative conservation solutions.

Solutions to some of the world’s greatest conservation and development challenges already exist in local communities around the globe. Rare seeks to spotlight bright spots—conservation solutions that use a behavior-centered approach—so practitioners can expand their impact as they replicate proven success.

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Campaigning for Conservation is a 10-day hands-on training.

The training is for full-time, field-based outreach staff and designed to build their constituencies’ understanding of and support for conservation and behavior change. Using best-in-class training exercises, participants learn to develop and implement a social marketing campaign designed to address the social and environmental challenges facing their communities. The training equips participants with a global theory of behavior change, social marketing tactics, quantitative and qualitative research techniques, and effective campaign design for local challenges.

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