Peer-reviewed articles

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2024

Thomas-Walters, L., et al. (2024). Reframing conservation audiences from individuals to social beings. Conservation Letters, e13064. 

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Veríssimo, D., [...] & Thomas-Walters, L. (2024). Changing human behavior to conserve biodiversity. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49, 419–448. 
 

Thomas-Walters, L., et al. (2024). Communicating the links between climate change and heat waves with the Climate Shift Index. Weather, Climate, and Society. 511–520

Young, K.A. & Thomas-Walters, L. (2024) What the climate movement’s debate about disruption gets wrong. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 25.

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Scheuch, E.G., Ortiz, M., Shreedhar, G. & Thomas-Walters, L. (2024) The power of protest in the media: examining portrayals of climate activism in UK news. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications  11, 270. 

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Jarić, I., [...] Thomas-Walters, L., Veríssimo, D. and Ladle, R.J. (2024), Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 22: e2599.

2023

Awoyemi, S. Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2023) Culture and the Illegal Trade in Vultures in Southwestern Nigeria: Conundrums and Recommendations. Vulture News 83: 18-31.

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Painter, J., [...] Thomas-Walters, L., Vowles, K. & Wetts, R. (2023) Climate delay discourses present in global mainstream television coverage of the IPCC’s 2021 report. Commun Earth Environ 4(118).

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Cheung, H., [...] Thomas-Walters, L., Wang, Y. & Biggs, D. (2023) Understanding China's political will for sustainability and conservation gains. People And Nature.

Parkes, I. Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2023) Social identification predicts behavioural engagement with environmental activist movements, but does not moderate the collective climate action intention-behaviour gap. Preprint.

Jarić, I., [...] Thomas-Walters, L., Veríssimo, D. & Ladle, R J. (2023) Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2023) Understanding the market drivers behind the reduced demand for ivory products in Japan. Conservation & Society. 

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2022

Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2022) A systematic review of conservation interventions to promote voluntary behaviour change. Conservation Biology.

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Shreedar, G. and Thomas-Walters, L. (2022) Experimental evidence on the impact of framing actors and victims in conservation narratives. Conservation Biology.

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Thomas-Walters, L. and Veríssimo, D. (2022) Cross‐cultural mobile game evaluation shows improvement in environmental learning, but not behavior. Conservation Science and Practice. e12784

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2021

Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2021) An optimistic outlook on the use of evidence syntheses to inform environmental decision making. Conservation Science & Practice. 3(6):e426.

Boissat, L., Thomas-Walters, L., Veríssimo, D. (2021) Nature documentaries as catalysts for change: Mapping out the ‘Blackfish Effect’. People & Nature. 3(6): 1179-1192

2020

Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2020) Challenges in the impact evaluation of behaviour change interventions: The case of sea turtle meat and eggs in São Tomé. People & Nature. 2(4): 913-922.

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Olmedo, A., […] Thomas-Walters, L., Wan, A. K. Y., & Veríssimo, D. (2020) A scoping review of celebrity endorsement in environmental campaigns and evidence for its effectiveness. Conservation Science and Practice. 2(10): e261

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Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2020) Targeted values: The relevance of classical Chinese philosophy for illegal wildlife demand reduction campaigns. People & Nature. 2(4): 964-971.

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Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2020) Motivations for the use and consumption of wildlife products. Conservation Biology. 35(2): 483-491. 

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Thomas-Walters, L. et al. (2020) Taking a more nuanced look at behaviour change for demand reduction in the illegal wildlife trade. Conservation Science and Practice. 2(9): e248.

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2019

Thomas-Walters, L., McNulty, C. and Veríssimo, D. (2019) A scoping review into the impact of animal imagery on pro-environmental outcomes. Ambio. 49(6): 1135-1145.

Jones, J., Thomas-Walters, L., Rust, N. & Veríssimo, D. (2019) Nature documentaries and saving nature: Reflections on the new Netflix series Our Planet. People & Nature. 1: 420-425.

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2017

Leung, W., Thomas-Walters, L., Garner, T., Balloux, F., Durrant, C. & Price, S. (2017) A quantitative-PCR based method to estimate ranavirus viral load following normalisation by reference to an ultraconserved vertebrate target. Journal of Virological Methods. 249: 147-155. 
 

2016

Thomas-Walters, L. & Raihani, N. J. (2016) Supporting Conservation: The roles of flagship species and identifiable victims. Conservation Letters. 10(5): 581–587.