Below you will find profiles of conservation psychology researchers and practitioners. If your research is relevant to conservation psychology and you would like your profile to be added below, please contact Carol Saunders at csaunders@antioch.edu
Deborah Kleese
Associate Professor, Human Development
Empire State College / Middletown Unit of the Hudson Valley Center
50-58 Fulton St.
Middletown, NYPhone: (845)956-3110
Fax: (845)956-4960
Email: deborah.kleese@esc.edu
Publications related to Conservation Psychology:
Kleese, D. (1989). Toward an ecological epistemology for psychology. The Trumpeter, 6(4), 137-143.
Edelstein,M.& Kleese,D.(1995). The cultural relativity of impact assessment: Native Hawaiian opposition to geothermal energy development. SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES, 8: 19-31.
Kleese, D. (2001). Nature and nature in psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 21(1), 61-79.
Kleese, D. (2002). Contested natures: Wolves in late modernity. Society and Natural Resources, 15: 315-328.
Research Interests:
Interested in how we name, understand, and then act on the biophysical world that we typically call nature


