Rachelle Gould is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work involves social science, the humanities, and ecology. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont. Her research explores the relationship between people and ecosystems and focuses on: (1) environmental values, including Cultural Ecosystem Services and relational values; (2) lifelong and life-wide environmental learning and its relationships to pro-environmental behavior; and (3) how issues of equity, inclusion, and justice permeate environmental issues.
Rachelle K. Gould PhD
Associate Professor, University of Vermont
Projects
Publications
Hoelle, J., Gould, R.K., Tauro, A. Expanding relational values research to reflect the diversity of human-nature relationships. People and Nature.
Gould, R.K., Schultz, P.W. 2021. Challenges to understanding psychological dimensions of human-nature connections – and how to address them. Ecology and Society.
Gould, R.K. 2021. How creativity can help research on the multiple values of nature become more innovative and inclusive. People and Nature.
Gould, R.K., Bremer, L., Pascua, P., Meza Prado, K. 2020. Frontiers in cultural ecosystem services: Toward greater equity and justice in ecosystem services research and practice. Bioscience. 70(12): 1093-1107.
Gould, R.K., Pai, M., Muraca, B., Chan, K.M.A.. 2019. “He ʻike ʻana Ia i Ka Pono (It Is a Recognizing of the Right Thing): How One Indigenous Worldview Informs Relational Values and Social Values.” Sustainability Science 14 (5): 1213–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00721-9.
Ardoin, N.M., Gould, R.K., Lukacs, H., Sponarski, C., Schuh, J. 2019. Scale of place and sense of place among urban dwellers. Ecosphere. 10 (9): e02871. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2871.
Gould, R.K., Ardoin, N.M., Thomsen, J.M., Wyman Roth, N., 2018. Exploring connections between environmental learning and behavior through four everyday-life case studies. Environmental Education Research 1–27.
Gould, R.K., Ardoin, N., Krymkowski, D. 2018. The importance of culture in predicting environmental behavior in middle school students on Hawaiʻi Island. PLOS One. 13(11): e0207087. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207087.
Gould, R.K., Coleman, K. (PD), Gluck, S.B. (UG). 2018. Exploring dynamism of cultural ecosystem services through a review of environmental education research. Ambio 47, 1–15.
Chan, K., Pascual, U., Gould, R.K. 2018. Editorial: What are relational values, and what’s all the fuss about? Current Opinion in Environment and Sustainability. 35: A1-A7.
Britto dos Santos(Grad), N., Gould, R.K. 2018. Can relational values be developed and changed? Investigating relational values in the environmental education literature. Current Opinion in Environment and Sustainability. 35: 124-131.
Gould, R.K., Lincoln, N. 2017. Expanding the suite of Cultural Ecosystem Services to include ingenuity, perspective, and life teaching. Ecosystem Services. 25: 117-127.
Gould, R.K., Ardoin, N.; Biggar, M.; Cravens, A. 2016. Environmental behavior’s dirty secret: The prevalence of waste-related discussions in community discussions of environmental action. Environmental Management.
Chan, K.M.A., Balvanera, P., Benessaiah, K., Chapman, M., Díaz, S., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Gould, R.K., Hannahs, N., Jax, K., Klain, S., Luck, G., Martín-López, B., Muraca, B., Norton, B., Ott, K, Pascual, U., Satterfield, T., Tadaki, M., Taggart, J., and Turner, N. 2016. Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 1462–1465.
Gould, R. K., S. Klain, U. Woodside, N. Hannahs, T. Satterfield, K. M. A. Chan, J. Levine, N. M. Ardoin, and G. C. Daily. 2015. A Protocol for Eliciting Nonmaterial Values Using a Cultural Ecosystem Services Frame. Conservation Biology. doi:10.1111/cobi.12407.