Stanley Asah
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Dimensions of Clean Technology (Tier 1)

Email: st.asah@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6864
Mailing Address:
AV整氈窒
6100 University Ave, Suite 5010,
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Environmentally significant behaviors
- Adoption and diffusion of cleaner technovations including circular economic options
- Social impacts, justice and acceptability
- Socio-technical systems
- Political, occupational and organizational psychologies of human-environment interactions
- Human-Agricultural interactions and knowledge transfer
- Development and social change
- Pedagogy
Education
- BSc, University of Deschang
- PhD, University of Minnesota
- PDF, University of Minnesota
Research interests
Dr. Asah uses social psychological principles and complex adaptive systems thinking to explore and inform environmentally significant behaviors, including management practices and policy.泭 Stanley Asahs primary research focus is in Cleaner Sociotechnical systems with interests in using human behavioral sciences to explore: (i) the adoption, retention and diffusion of cleaner technologies, (ii) the social impacts, justice and acceptability of cleaner technologies, and (iii) behavioral change strategies, management practices and decision making and policy options to facilitate the adoption, retention and diffusion of cleaner technologies and technical practices, and to facilitate sociotechnical change.
Selected publications
Please review recent publications on.泭
- Asah, ST, Maris, V, Subramanian, SM, Blahna, DJ, Stenseke, M, Chacon-Cascante, A. 2023. Value exclusion in social-scientific approaches for assessing and valuing ecosystem features: Implications for behavioral compliance. BioScience, 73(9), 663-670.
- Asah, ST, Blahna, DJ. 2020. Involving Stakeholders knowledge in co-designing social valuations of biodiversity and ecosystem services: Implications for decision-making. Ecosystems 23, 324337
- Asah, ST, Baral, N. 2018. Technicalizing Non-technical Participatory Social Impact Assessment of Prospective Cellulosic Biorefineries: Psychometric Quantification and Implications. Applied Energy, 232, 462-472.泭
- Reddy, SMW, Montambault, J, Masuda, YJ, Keenan, E, Butler, W, Fisher, JRB, Asah ST, & Gneezy, A. 2017. Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior. Conservation Letters, 10(2), 248-256
- Asah, ST. 2015. Post 2015 Development Agenda: Human Agency and the Inoperability of the Sustainable Development Architecture. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 16(4):631-636
- Asah, ST. 2015. Transboundary Hydro-Politics and Climate Change Rhetoric: An Emerging Hydro-Security Complex in the Lake Chad Basin.泭Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water,2(1):3745
- Asah, ST, Guerry, AD, Blahna, DJ, Lawler, JJ. 2014. Perception, Acquisition and Use of Ecosystem Services: Human Behavior, and Ecosystem Management and Policy Implications.泭Ecosystem Services,10:180-186
- Asah, ST.泭2014.泭Professionals Perspectives: Exploring the Occupational and Organizational Psychology of Community-Agency Interactions in Forest Fire Management.泭Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research,87(4):552-561
- Asah, ST, Blahna. D. 2013. Practical Implications of Understanding the Influence of Motivations on Commitment to Voluntary Urban Conservation Stewardship.泭Conservation Biology,27(4):866-875
- Asah, ST, Nelson, KC, Bengston, DN. 2008. Managing Social-Ecological Change and Uncertainty: Floodplain Agriculture and Conservation in Dryland Northern Cameroon.泭Conservation & Society,泭6(2):166-178
Selected Awards and Service
- Faculty of the Year Teaching Award, University of Washington (2011)
- 楚餃勳喧棗娶-梆紳-唬堯勳梗款,泭Environment & Behaviorjournal (2019-2014)
- International Advisory Board:Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water泭(2013-梯娶梗莽梗紳喧)
- Associate Editor-Social Sciences:Journal of Forestry泭(2013-2016)
- Associate Editor-Human Dimensions and Recreation:Journal of Forestry (2010-2013)
- Review Editor, IPBES 1stGlobal Assessment (2017-2019)
- Advisory Council to US Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking (2013-2015)
- Faculty Senate, AV整氈窒 (2024-)
Teaching
- ENVI 5500: Sociopolitical Dimensions of Resource and Environmental Management
- Special Topics: Society, Cleaner Technologies & Human Behavior