Environmental Issues
Research related to the environment and the human elements of communicating about these issues.
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Can tech save the world? How can urban gardening and water conservation help in that world saving mission? The second annual CleanTech Symposium was hosted at UGA’s Delta Innovation Hub on Wednesday, April 19, in an effort to answer these pressing questions. UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Office of Sustainability partnered with…
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Members of the Lamm Lab presented research papers and posters at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from February 3-7, 2023.
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Authors: Kristin Gibson and Dr. Alexa Lamm Kristin Gibson’s research presentation about single-use bottled water purchasing intention was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Research Paper at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium held in Oklahoma City, OK. The manuscript was also identified as a distinguished paper. The study will be used to guide her dissertation research under…
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Authors: Dr. Laura Warner, Dr. Alexa Lamm, and Kristin Gibson Dr. Alexa Lamm and Kristin Gibson coauthored a manuscript with Dr. Laura Warner, an associate professor at the University of Florida, about normative influences on landscape irrigation in Florida. The article, published in Society & Natural Resources, examined behavior change interventions for residential landscape irrigation…
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Authors Katie Sanders, Allison Fortner, Kristin Gibson, and Alexa Lamm, along with co-author Kevan Lamm, recently published an article in the Journal of Agricultural Education piloting the use of hypothetical case scenarios in undergraduate agricultural and natural resource classrooms to enhance students’ systems thinking capacities. Systems thinking is a framework that focuses on the interconnected…
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New research from the Lamm Lab helps explain why climate change perceptions are often politically divided
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Kristin Gibson, a doctoral student in the Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication program at the University of Georgia, recently published an article exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on environmental engagement among United States residents. The article, published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, is part of a larger project examining opinions on information during the…
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Many think that technology adoption, especially when it is designed to solve with the same problem, would be adopted at the same rate. Dr. Alexa Lamm and her colleagues found this wasn’t true in the case of nursery and greenhouse growers as part of the WateR3 project, funded by the USDA SCRI. In fact, growers…
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The Lamm Lab is excited to welcome Olivia Erskine as the newest Masters student to join the team. Olivia graduated from Clemson University in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Natural Resources with a concentration in Natural Resources and Economic Policy. During her time as an undergraduate student, she researched urban farming and…
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Allison Fortner, Kristin Gibson, Katie Sanders, and Dr. Alexa Lamm travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica in late June to share research and learn from fellow social scientists at the International Association for Society and Natural Resources conference. The team presented one organized session, one paper, and one poster. Systems Thinking The Costa Rican rain…