Alia Dietsch
Contact Information
Job Title
Assistant Professor, Environment and Natural Resources
- dietsch.29@osu.edu
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Areas of Expertise
- Social Psychology – Values, Human Behavior
- Human-Wildlife Interactions/Conflict
- Parks & Protected Area Management
- Incarceration and the environment
Education
- Ph.D., Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, 2015
- M.S., Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, 2010
- B.S., Forestry/Wildland Recreation, University of Tennessee, 2001
| Alia Dietsch's research primarily focuses on applying social science theories and methodologies to 1) conservation decision-making and 2) natural resource, parks and protected area management. She relies upon a social psychological approach to understand how people think and behave in various contexts, and is increasingly exploring how human decisions impact the environment through topics like incarceration, disabled ecologies, and more. A few example research questions she has investigated include: how does human thought affect public support (or lack thereof) for natural resource management actions? How does demographic shift affect the composition of values across time and space, and what can that tell us about the future of conservation? How does the way we think about others - whether human or more-than-human - shape our world? |