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M.A. (Psychology) Psychology for Conservation and Climate Change Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Semesters III and IV are from the Board's own Semester III and IV syllabus approved on 12 July 2024 (item 5.7 (N)), in force from 2024-25. The 2023 document's credit table shows an earlier plan for Semesters III and IV; the 2024 syllabus is the one the University examines, and its Winter 2026 timetables name these papers.

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M.A. (Psychology) · Semester 4 · Elective · 4 credits

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Syllabus for Psychology for Conservation and Climate Change

M.A. (Psychology) · Semester 4 · Elective · 4 credits

Course objectives

  • 1 To understand the psychological and social determinants of Conservation behavior
  • 2 To understand conservation efforts with reference to India
  • 3 To understand various areas of conservation psychology relevant to Indian context.
  • 4 To understand and apply assessment methods in conservation psychology.
  • 5 Using psychological interventions for conservation and policy matters

Course outcomes

  • 1 To be able to describe the nature and scope of conservation psychology
  • 2 To be able to describe and choose appropriate research method in conservation psychology.
  • 3 To be able to enumerate psychological interventions regarding climate change.
  • 4 To be able identify institution that have potential to convert into CPR and critically evaluate the steps needed for the same.
  • 5 Design and evaluate public policy suggestions for conservation and climate-change.

Unit 1: Basics of Conservation Psychology

  • Nature and Scope of Conservation Psychology. Conservation and Human Nature
  • Methods of Conservation Psychology
  • Climate change and Psychological aspects of climate change.
  • Theoretical Foundations for the Human Response to Nature.

Unit 2: Attitude to Conservation and Climate Change: Assessment and Change

  • Attitude towards Conservation: Promoting Conservation. Attitude assessment . Attitude change
  • Pro-environmental behaviours. Development of Conservation Behaviors in Childhood and Youth
  • Environment and Identity.
  • Place Attachment.

Unit 3: Climate Change and Psychology

  • Attitude towards climate and climate change: Global and local issues. Changing underlying implicit attitudes about Climate Change.
  • Cognitive biases in our thinking about climate change.
  • Climate change initiatives, and reasons for failure.
  • Climate Change and India. CPR institutions and Climate change.
  • Carbon credits, green credits, etc. PES. Agroforestry.

Unit 4: Conservation in Indian Context: CPR, FRA, Human-Animal Conflict and Legal Aspects.

  • CPR Framework and CPR Institutions. CPR Experiments Psychology, Culture, and Local Knowledge.
  • Psychological aspects CPR. Developing CPR Institutions. Environmental Education.
  • Challenges and Solution to Conservation Efforts in India: Challenges of Space and Corridors Human-Animal Conflict. Accounting for the Costs and Benefits of Conservation.
  • Forest Rights Act. Other legal aspects. Role of Government and Non-Gov sectors.

References

  • Beattie, G. & McGuire, L. (2019). The Psychology of Climate Change. Routledge: NY.
  • Belhekar, V.M. and Bhargava, R. (2022). Psychographing Frontline Staff of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve: Understanding Organizational and Human Resource Aspects, Mental Health, Psychological Wellbeing, Social Networks, and Personality across Hierarchies of the Frontline Forest Staff. Uttar Pradesh Forest Department. The Habitats Trust, Noida.
  • Belhekar, V.M., Paranjpye, P., Bhatkhande, A. and Chavan, R. (2019). Assessing Work Motivation of Forest Guards in Maharashtra. Mumbai: Wildlife Conservation Trust, India. https://www.wildlifeconservationtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/061720-Assessing-Work- Motivation-of-Forest-Guards-Maharashtra.pdf
  • Belhekar, V.M., Paranjpye, P., Bhatkhande, A., & Chavan, R. (2020). Guarding the guardians: Understanding the psychological well-being of forest guards in Indian tiger reserves. Biodiversity. Special Issue. 21:2, 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2020.1809521
  • Clayton, S. & Myers, G. (2011). Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Clayton, S. D. (2012). The Oxford handbook of environmental and conservation psychology. OUP: NY.
  • Dewoolkar, P., Hatekar, N., Belhekar, V.M., Bhatkhande, A., & Chavan, R. (2020). Improving LPG adaptation for better health and conservation outcomes. Biodiversity. Special Issue. 21:2, 90-
  • 96 https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2020.1803132

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for M.A. (Psychology), Semester III and IV, AC 12/07/2024, Item No. 5.7 (N), in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording and numbering are as printed there; the marks scheme is in the PDF above.

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