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Cities As Interfaces of Zoonotic Hazard Emergence: Development of the New York City Tick and Wildlife Urban Surveillance System

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Household location choices: implications for biodiversity conservation.

M Nils Peterson¹, Xiaodong Chen, Jianguo Liu

¹Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 13 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1222, USA. nils_peterson@ncsu.edu

Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology

|May 1, 2008

Summary

Household location choices significantly impact biodiversity. In Teton Valley, educated immigrants with pro-environment attitudes moved to natural areas, increasing environmental impact, while longer residency decreased environmental concern.

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Published on: March 10, 2026

Area of Science:

Conservation Science
Human Ecology
Environmental Sociology

Background:

Understanding human behavior is crucial for biodiversity conservation.
Household location choice is a key behavior with direct environmental impacts.
Sociocultural predictors of household location and their environmental consequences are understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore links between sociodemographics, environmental attitudes, and household location impacts in Teton Valley.
To assess how small household sizes in natural areas amplify environmental effects.
To evaluate the relationship between residency duration and environmental attitudes in natural settings.

Main Methods:

Case study in Teton Valley, Idaho and Wyoming.
Survey of 416 households (95% compliance) collecting sociodemographic data, spatial coordinates, and land-cover information.
Analysis of relationships between residency, demographics, attitudes, and environmental impact.

Main Results:

Immigrants with lower education and less environmental concern occupied established areas.
Older, more educated immigrants with stronger environmental attitudes moved into natural areas.
Households in natural areas had higher per-person environmental impact, partly due to smaller household sizes.
Longer residency in natural areas correlated with less environmentally oriented attitudes.

Conclusions:

Environmental attitudes do not necessarily translate into conservation-friendly household location choices.
Population trends (aging, increased education) may exacerbate negative conservation outcomes.
There is a critical need for individuals to align their actions with their environmental values and for further research into these complex interactions.