Terre’s work has been at the forefront of the environmental social sciences, and includes pioneering interdisciplinary work on questions of the value, culture, and perceived risks of environmental change. Three fundamental questions drive her work:  What do people value environmentally and culturally and why? What changes and impacts (including technological interventions in nature) do people perceive as risky and why? How and when are conservation programs and protected areas culturally consequential for local and Indigenous communities? Methodologically speaking, Terre’s work with over 30 PhD, and 10 Masters students, has been particularly preoccupied with addressing the integration of meaning and measurement across these three topical areas.

Her body of scholarship includes 3 books, multiple book chapters, and more than 120 refereed articles in top-quality, broad audience journals including: Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Science and Technology, Ecological Economics, Climatic Change, Annual Reviews, Conservation Letters, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Energy Research and Social Sciences, Risk Analysis, Organization and the Environment, Environmental Science and Policy, Ecology and Society, World Development, among others.

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