Aidan Keane

Biographic Data

ID177511
NAMEAidan Keane
GIVEN NAMESAidan
FAMILY NAMEKeane
SIGNATUREKEANE A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-9704-5576
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS42
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • A qualitative evaluation of a community‐based approach to protected area law enforcement

    Open AccessWilliam Sharkey, Aidan Keane et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    People living in and around terrestrial and marine protected areas can contribute to protected area law enforcement in different ways. While the involvement of local residents is considered important for bringing benefits to both conservation and people, evaluations of community‐based approaches to protected area law enforcement are limited. We conducted a qualitative evaluation of an intervention that represents a common model for community enga…

  • Adapting a global conservation perspectives assessment for local relevance

    Open AccessIzak P J Smit, C Sandbrook et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Conservation governance has traditionally focussed on biological and scientific expertise while often avoiding value‐based conflicts. However, ignoring the value dimension overlooks conservation's dual nature. Understanding the values that guide the actions and narratives of conservationists and those interested in or affected by conservation is crucial for fostering better understanding, relationships and resolving conflicts. Few studies have di…

  • Nature’s contributions to social determinants of mental health and the role of conservation

    Open AccessThomas Pienkowski, Aidan Keane et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

    Little is known about the impending mental health impacts of the global nature crisis. Existing evidence largely overlooks how nature sustains the economic and material dimensions of people’s lives that support their mental health. Moreover, this evidence poorly represents the context-dependent experiences of billions living in the rural Global South. Here, we offer a framework illustrating how nature’s essential contributions to people underpin …

  • Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being

    Open AccessGeoff Wells, Casey M Ryan et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

    of millions of people in the tropics harvest ''wild'' common-pool resources d Wild harvests are correlated with high relative well-being in remote and poor areas d Access to infrastructure, cities, assets, and skills also increase well-being overall d The well-being of many people relies on both wild resources and economic development

  • Evaluating the determinants of participation in conservancy land leases and its impacts on household wealth in the Maasai Mara, Kenya

    Open AccessClaire Bedelian, Joseph O Ogutu et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023References: 6

  • A global analysis of factors predicting conservationists' values

    Open AccessRogelio Luque-Lora, Aidan Keane et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2022

    There exists a wealth of philosophical, sociological and anthropological literature on environmental values; yet, few studies have investigated the values held by conservationists themselves, and how these shape the conservation movement. Here, we present the first global analysis of the relationships between conservationists' values and a broad range of conservationists' characteristics, categorised into their educational and professional backgr…

  • Women, wellbeing and Wildlife Management Areas in Tanzania

    K Homewood, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Peasant Studies2022Cited by: 4References: 64

    Community-based wildlife management claims pro-poor, gender-sensitive outcomes. However, intersectional political ecology predicts adverse impacts on marginalised people. Our large-scale quantitative approach draws out common patterns and differentiated ways women are affected by Tanzania's Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). This first large-scale, rigorous evaluation studies WMA impacts on livelihoods and wellbeing of 937 married women in 42 vill…

  • Potentially harmful World Bank projects are proximate to areas of biodiversity conservation importance

    Open AccessJonathan Morley, Graeme M Buchanan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021References: 4

  • The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions

    Open AccessSarobidy O Rakotonarivo, Andrew Reid Bell et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Rakotonarivo, S. O., A. R. Bell, K. Abernethy, J. Minderman, A. B. Duthie, S. Redpath, A. Keane, H. Travers, S. Bourgeois, L.-L. Moukagni, J. J. Cusack, I. L. Jones, R. A. Pozo, and N. Bunnefeld. 2021. The role of incentive-based instruments and social equity in conservation conflict interventions. Ecology and Society 26(2):8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12306-260208

  • Intervener trustworthiness predicts cooperation with conservation interventions in an elephant conflict public goods game

    Open AccessZachary Baynham‐herd, Nils Bunnefeld et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    Conservation conflicts exist in complex socio‐ecological systems and are damaging to both people and wildlife. There is much interest in designing interventions to manage them more effectively, but the importance of who does the intervening remains underexplored. In particular, conflicts are influenced by perceptions of the trustworthiness of natural resource managers and conservation organizations. However, experimental studies of how the differ…

  • Making Messy Data Work for Conservation

    Open AccessAndy D M Dobson, E J Milner-Gulland et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • The Problem with Crime Problem-Solving

    Open AccessHervé Borrion, Paul Ekblom et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Criminology2020Cited by: 1References: 63

    In his 2018 Stockholm prize winner lecture, Goldstein highlighted the need for problem-oriented policing (POP) to be not only effective but also fair. Contributing to the development of POP, this study examines how a wider perspective on problem-solving generally, and scoping in particular, can be adopted to address some of the growing challenges in 21st century policing. We demonstrate that the concept of ‘problem’ was too narrowly defined and t…

  • A Framework for Assessing Impacts of Wild Meat Hunting Practices in the Tropics

    Open AccessAndy D M Dobson, E J Milner-Gulland et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2019

    Terrestrial wildlife is being hunted for consumption by humans in the tropics at an unprecedented rate, and the often unsustainable nature of this harvest has profound implications not only for biodiversity and ecosystem function, but also for human livelihoods. Whilst the nature and impacts of this practice have been studied in numerous contexts and localities, a comprehensive treatment of the social, economic, and environmental determinants of …

  • The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate shocks

    Open AccessEmilie Beauchamp, Annalyse Moskeland et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Climate shocks are predicted to increase in magnitude and frequency as the climate changes, notably impacting poor and vulnerable communities across the Tropics. The urgency to better understand and improve communities’ resilience is reflected in international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the multiplication of adaptation research and action programs. In turn, the need for collecting and communicating evidence on the climate resilien…

  • Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth

    Open AccessAidan Keane, Jens Friis Lund et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 3References: 8

  • The global conservation movement is diverse but not divided

    Open AccessC Sandbrook, Janet Fisher et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 24References: 6

  • Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing

    Open AccessHarriet Elizabeth Smith, Casey M Ryan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019Cited by: 7References: 29

  • Exploring differences in stakeholders' perceptions of illegal bird trapping in Cyprus

    Open AccessHeather M Jenkins, Christos Mammides et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2017Cited by: 3References: 22

    BACKGROUND: Cyprus is recognised as a hotspot for illegal bird trapping in the Mediterranean basin. A consumer demand for the Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) is driving the use of non-selective trapping methods, resulting in the indiscriminate killing of millions of migratory birds. Efforts to tackle the issue have so far been characterised mostly by a top-down approach, focusing on legislation and enforcement. However, trapping levels are…

  • Incentives for cooperation

    Open AccessHenry Travers, Tom Clements et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2011

  • The sleeping policeman

    Open AccessAidan Keane, Julia P G Jones et al.ARTICLEAnimal Conservation2008

    Rules governing human behaviour are at the heart of every system of natural resource management. Without compliance, however, rules are meaningless so effective enforcement is essential if conservation is to be successful. There is a large body of theory concerning enforcement and compliance with rules spread over several disciplines, including psychology, economics and sociology. However, there have been few attempts to extend this theory to con…