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Anke Fischer is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research spans environmental science and social sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as global and planetary change, sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and management, monitoring, policy and law.

The scholar's primary research topics include land use and ecosystem services, forest management and policy, geographies of human-animal interactions, urban green space and health, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, animal and plant science education, as well as climate change communication and perception.

Fischer's recent publications illustrate a diverse engagement with environmental and social dimensions of ecological issues. Notable papers include:

  • The role of species charisma in biological invasions, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Information technology and the optimisation of experience - The role of mobile devices and social media in human-nature interactions, 2021, Geoforum
  • The Instagrammable outdoors - Investigating the sharing of nature experiences through visual social media, 2021, People and Nature
  • Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social: How rewilding discourse in Scotland has come to include people, 2021, Land Use Policy
  • Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With, 2020, Environmental Communication

Frequent co-authors in Fischer's body of work include Sofie Joosse, Antonia Eastwood, Alice Hague, Nora Förell, and Irma Arts. This collaborative network reflects interdisciplinary approaches bridging environmental communication, policy, and social sciences.

The scientist's publications often appear in several recurrent academic venues. These include:

  • People and Nature
  • Environmental Policy and Governance
  • Geoforum
  • Land Use Policy
  • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Best Publications

  • Understanding mental constructs of biodiversity: Implications for biodiversity management and conservation

    Anke Fischer;Juliette C. Young

  • Effect of Local Cultural Context on the Success of Community‐Based Conservation Interventions

    Kerry A. Waylen;Kerry A. Waylen;Anke Fischer;Philip J. K. Mcgowan;Simon J. Thirgood

  • Explaining people’s perceptions of invasive alien species: A conceptual framework.

    Ross T. Shackleton;David M. Richardson;Charlie M. Shackleton;Brett Bennett;Brett Bennett

  • Coproduction of ecosystem services as human–nature interactions—An analytical framework

    Anke Fischer;Antonia Eastwood

  • Conflicts between humans over wildlife management: on the diversity of stakeholder attitudes and implications for conflict management

    Keith Marshall;Rehema White;Anke Fischer

  • Looking beyond superficial knowledge gaps: Understanding public representations of biodiversity

    Arjen E. Buijs;Anke Fischer;Dieter Rink;Juliette C. Young

  • Public and professional views on invasive non-native species – A qualitative social scientific investigation

    Sebastian Selge;Sebastian Selge;Anke Fischer;René van der Wal

  • Developing an integrated conceptual framework to understand biodiversity conflicts

    Rehema M. White;Anke Fischer;Keith Marshall;Justin M.J. Travis

  • Invasive plant suppresses charismatic seabird - the construction of attitudes towards biodiversity management options.

    Anke Fischer;René van der Wal

  • Conflicts between Biodiversity Conservation and Human Activities in the Central and Eastern European Countries

    Juliette Young;Caspian Richards;Anke Fischer;Lubos Halada

  • (De)legitimising hunting - discourses over the morality of hunting in Europe and eastern Africa.

    Anke Fischer;Anke Fischer;Vesna Kereži;Beatriz Arroyo;Miguel Mateos-Delibes

  • The role of species charisma in biological invasions

    Ivan Jarić;Franck Courchamp;Ricardo A Correia;Sarah L Crowley

  • Understanding people's ideas on natural resource management: research on social representations of nature

    Arjen Buijs;Tasos Hovardas;Helene Figari;Paula Castro

  • Understanding the cognitive basis for human-wildlife relationships as a key to successful protected-area management

    Tara L. Teel;Michael J. Manfredo;Frank S. Jensen;Arjen E. Buijs

  • Insurance, prevention or just wait and see? Public preferences for water management strategies in the context of climate change.

    Klaus Glenk;Anke Fischer

  • On the multifunctionality of hunting : an institutional analysis of eight cases from Europe and Africa

    Anke Fischer;Camilla Sandström;Miguel Delibes-Mateos;Beatriz Arroyo

  • The public and professionals reason similarly about the management of non-native invasive species: a quantitative investigation of the relationship between beliefs and attitudes.

    Anke Fischer;Sebastian Selge;René van der Wal;Brendon M. H. Larson

  • Climate Change? No, Wise Resource Use is the Issue: Social Representations of Energy, Climate Change and the Future

    Anke Fischer;Vera Peters;Mirjam Neebe;Jan Vávra

  • Universal criteria for species conservation priorities? Findings from a survey of public views across Europe

    Anke Fischer;Birgit Bednar-Friedl;Fransje Langers;Marta Dobrovodská

  • Willingness to pay, attitudes and fundamental values - on the cognitive context of public preferences for diversity in agricultural landscapes.

    Uta Sauer;Anke Fischer

  • Energy use, climate change and folk psychology: Does sustainability have a chance? Results from a qualitative study in five European countries

    Anke Fischer;Vera Peters;Jan Vávra;Mirjam Neebe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerry J. Vaske
Jerry J. Vaske Colorado State University
Jo Smith
Jo Smith University of Aberdeen
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Esteve Corbera
Esteve Corbera Autonomous University of Barcelona
Christian A. Kull
Christian A. Kull University of Lausanne
Patrick Devine-Wright
Patrick Devine-Wright University of Exeter
Michael J. Manfredo
Michael J. Manfredo Colorado State University
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Diogo Veríssimo
Diogo Veríssimo University of Oxford
Paul D. Hallett
Paul D. Hallett University of Aberdeen

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