Introducing humanitarians and environmentalists to decision-science insights and applications

An increasing number of scientific disciplines focus on understanding how and why people make decisions and behave the way they do – issues of great significance to humanitarian and environmental organizations working on climate change, risk management and other issues. This working paper examines how decision science – a collective term for research in fields such as behavioural economics, social psychology, cognitive science and conservation psychology – could improve the effectiveness of humanitarian interventions