Lily van Eeden

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Academic

2026

• Sollis K, Rajeevan U, van Eeden LM, Lee K, Keniger L, Lin BB, Marsh P, Flies EJ (2026). Connecting with nature: The missing link between a satisfied life and a healthy life? AMBIO
• Jestrimski Z, Newsome TM, Dickman CR, Crowther MS, van Eeden LM (2026) Historical assessment of dingo occurrence in a semi-arid pastoral region of Western Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology 32(1): PC25069
• Antang C, Roussell D, van Eeden L, Grover S (in press) Regenerating the peatland forests of Kalimantan through Dayak Ngaju language: New animisms, ecolinguistics, and the naming of worlds. Australian Journal of Environmental Education
• Selinske MJ, Garrard ME, Humphrey JE, van Eeden LM, Wright D, Brugler S, Clark GJ, Della Porta B, Hames F, Hardy MJ, Hawdon A, Kaufman S, Knight AT, O’Connor PJ, Pascoe J, Pelle N, Plowman Y, Radford JQ, Tulloch AIT, Wood JL, Bekessy SA (in press) Pathways to a nature positive agricultural sector. npj Sustainable Agriculture

2025

• Berl R, Fisk J, van Eeden L, Salerno J, Fernández-Llamazares Á, Leong K, Long J, Boomer GS, Williams C, Arbieu U, Lehnen L, Landon A, Ellis E, Verschuuren B, Larson L, Gavin M (2025) Foundation principles of an applied cultural evolutionary science for natural resource management and conservation. Philosophical Transactions B 380 (1940): 20240262
• Sollis K, van Eeden L, Rajeevan U, Lin B, Lee K, Marsh P, Flies E (2025) Socio-demographic correlates of nature connection: An Australia-wide study. People and Nature 7(12):3207-3222
• Sollis K, van Eeden L, Rajeevan U, Lee K, Lin B, Keniger L, Marsh P, Flies E (2025) Protecting nature in diverse ways: The socio-demographic spread of benefits from connecting with nature. Ambio 2025
• van Eeden LM, Martin JF, Fisk J, Lehnen L, Ellis EC, Gavin MC, Landon AC, Larson LR, Leong KM, Linklater W, Williams CK, Berl REW (2025) Species nativeness as a cultural paradigm in conservation. Biological Conservation 311: 111415
• van Eeden LM, Bekessy S, Smith L, Gregg EA, Hatty MA, Kaufman S, Kusmanoff AM, Lauren N, Lee K, Lentini PE, Renowden C, Selinske M, Squires ZE, Hames F (2025) Partnerships to protect nature: a Community of Practice approach to human behaviour change research and practice. Earth Stewardship 2(3): e70018
• Finnerty PB, Carthey AJR, Banks PB, Brewster R, Grueber CE, Houston D, Martin JM, McManus P, Roncolato F, van Eeden LM, Wauchope M, Newsome TM (2025) Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline. BioScience 75(7): 545–558
• Fisk JJ, Leong KM, Berl REW, Long J, Jacobs L, van Eeden L, Adams MM, Fernández-Llamazares Á, Murphy J, Gavin M, Williams C, Salerno J, Verschuuren B, Bennett N, Idohou R, Mawyer A (2025) Cultivating reciprocity and supporting Indigenous lifeways through the cultural transformation of natural resource management in North America. People and Nature 7(5): 1171-1184
• Dietsch A, Selinske M, van Eeden L, Blount-Hill K-L, Banerjee S, Brittain S, Gelves-Gómez F, Hauptfeld R, Kaushik A, Manzano Fischer P, Uddin M K, Wallen K (2025) Conservation and the social sciences revisited. Conservation Biology 39(2): e14462
• Thomas-Walters L, Gelves-Gomez F, Brittain S, van Eeden L, Harvey Sky N, Kaushik A, Kemink K, Manzano-Fisher P, Plotsky K & Selinske M (2025) Essential skills for the training of conservation social scientists. Conservation Biology 39(2): e14456
• van Eeden LM, Smith L, Bekessy S, Dovers S, Lowe KW, Hames F (2025) Public pathways to influencing pro-nature decision-making in government: A case study in southeastern Australia. Conservation Science and Practice e13295
• van Eeden LM, Possingham H, Milfont TL, Klebl C, Fielding K (2025) Why do (or don’t) people protect nature? Insights from conservation practice and environmental psychology to respond to the biodiversity crisis. Global Environmental Psychology 3 e10927

2024

• van Eeden LM, Borg K, Gregg EA, Hatty M, Kaufman S, Kneebone S, Kusmanoff AM, Lauren N, Lee K, Lentini PE, Renowden C, Selinske M, Squires ZE, Bekessy S, Smith L, Hames F (2024) A researcher-practitioner driven framework and research agenda for promoting conservation behaviours. Biological Conservation 296: 110710

2023

• van Eeden L*, Renowden C*, Hames F, Bartlett S, Pearson E, Dunlop M, Hatfield M, Hugman S, Moon K, Pérez-Hämmerle K-V, Lee K (2023). The transformative potential of future visioning and reciprocity for nature conservation policy and practice. Social Innovations Journal 22, * denotes joint first authors
• van Eeden LM, Francis L, Squires ZE, Hames F, Bekessy SA, Smith L, Hatty M (2023) Demographic and spatial variables associated with spending time in nature during COVID-19 lockdowns. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 82: 127895
• Donfrancesco V, Allen BL, Appleby R, Behrendorff L, Conroy G, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Doherty T, Fancourt BA, Gordon CE, Jackson SM, Johnson CN, Kennedy MS, Koungoulos L, Letnic M, Leung L K-P, Mitchell KJ, Nesbitt B, Newsome T, Pacioni C, Phillip J, Purcell BV, Ritchie EG, Smith BP, Stephens D, Tatler J, van Eeden LM*, Cairns KM* (2023) Understanding conflict among experts working on controversial species: A case study on the Australian dingo. Conservation Science and Practice 5(3): e12900, * denotes joint senior authors

2022

• van Eeden LM, Geschke A, Hames F, Squires ZE, Weston MA (2022) The leashing behavior of dog owners in different types of natural areas. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 28(4): 356-371
• Jolly CJ, Dickman CR, Doherty TS, van Eeden LM, Geary WL, Legge SM, Woinarski JCZ, Nimmo DG (2022) Animal mortality during fire. Global Change Biology 28(6): 2053-2065

2021

• van Eeden LM, Hames F, Geschke A, Squires ZE, McLeod EM (2021) Putting the cat before the wildlife: Exploring cat owners’ beliefs about cat containment as predictors of owner behavior. Conservation Science and Practice 3(10): e502
• van Eeden LM, Bogezi C, Leng D, Marzluff JM, Wirsing AJ, Rabotyagov S (2021) Public willingness to pay for gray wolf conservation that could support a rancher-led wolf-livestock coexistence program. Biological Conservation 260: 109226
• Bogezi C, van Eeden LM, Wirsing AJ, Marzluff JM (2021) Ranchers’ perspectives on participating in non-lethal wolf-livestock coexistence strategies. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2: 683732
• Vucetich JA, Bruskotter JT, van Eeden LM, Macdonald EA (2021) How scholars prioritize the competing values of conservation and sustainability. Biological Conservation 257: 109126
• van Eeden LM, Rabotyagov S, Kather M, Bogezi C, Wirsing A, Marzluff J (2021) Political affiliation predicts public attitudes toward gray wolf (Canis lupus) conservation and management. Conservation Science and Practice 3(3): e387
• van Eeden LM, Dickman CR, Crowther MS, Newsome TM (2021) A Theory of Change for promoting coexistence between dingoes and livestock production. Conservation Science and Practice 3(3): e304
• Vucetich JA, Damamia R, Cushman SA, Macdonald EA, Burnham D, Offer-Westort T, Bruskotter JT, Feltz A, van Eeden L, Macdonald DW (2021) A minimally non-anthropocentric economics: what is it, is it necessary, and can it avert the biodiversity crisis? BioScience biab045
• van Eeden LM, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Newsome TM (2021) Wicked “wild dogs”: Australian public awareness of and attitudes towards dingoes and dingo management. Australian Zoologist 41(3): 467-479
• Dickman CR, Newsome TM, van Eeden LM (2021) The dingo dilemma: a brief history of debate. Australian Zoologist 41(3): 298-321
• Crowther MS, Cairns KM, van Eeden LM, Letnic M (2021) Introgression does not influence the positive ecological and functional role of dingo populations. Australian Zoologist 41(3): 338-346
• Degeling C, Hall J, van Eeden LM, Finlay SM, Gurung AM, Brookes VJ (2021) Representations of free-living and unrestrained dogs as an emerging public health issue in Australian newspapers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(11): 5807

2020

• van Eeden LM, Slagle K, Newsome TM, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Bruskotter JT (2020) Exploring nationality and social identity to explain attitudes toward conservation actions in the United States and Australia. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1165-1175
• van Eeden LM, Slagle K, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Newsome TM (2020) Linking social identity, risk perception, and behavioral psychology to understand predator management by livestock producers. Restoration Ecology 28(4): 902-910
• Thondhlana G, Redpath SM, Vedeld PO, van Eeden L, Pascual U, Sherren K, Murata C (2020) Non-material costs of wildlife conservation to local communities and their implications for conservation interventions. Biological Conservation 246: 108578
• Jordan NR, Smith BP, Appleby RG, van Eeden LM, Webster HS (2020) Addressing inequality and intolerance in human-wildlife coexistence. Conservation Biology 34(4): 803-810
• Brookes V, Degeling C, van Eeden L, Ward M (2020) What is a dingo? The phenotypic classification of dingoes by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents in northern Australia. Animals 10(7); 1230
• Janeiro-Otero A, Newsome T, van Eeden L, Ripple W, Dormann C (2020) Grey wolf (Canis lupus) predation on livestock in relation to prey availability. Biological Conservation 243: 108433
• van Eeden LM, Newsome TM, Crowther MS, Dickman R, Bruskotter J (2020) Diverse public perceptions of species’ status and management align with conflicting conservation frameworks. Biological Conservation 242: 108416

2019

• Bogezi C, van Eeden LM, Wirsing A, Marzluff J (2019) Predator-friendly beef certification as an economic strategy to promote coexistence between ranchers and wolves. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:476
• Treves A, Krofel M, Ohrens O, van Eeden LM (2019) Predator control needs a standard of unbiased randomized experiments with cross-over design. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:462
• van Eeden LM, Dickman CR, Crowther MS, Newsome TM (2019) A snapshot of changes in graziers’ management and attitudes towards dingoes over 60 years. Pacific Conservation Biology 25: 413-420
• van Eeden LM, Newsome TM, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Bruskotter J (2019) Social identity shapes support for management of wildlife and pests. Biological Conservation 231: 167-173
• Smith BP, Cairns KM, Adams JW, Newsome TM, Fillios M, Déaux EC, Parr WCH, Letnic M, van Eeden LM, Appleby RG, Bradshaw CJA, Savolainen P, Ritchie EG, Nimmo DG, Archer-Lean C, Greenville AC, Dickman CR, Watson L, Moseby KE, Doherty TS, Wallach AD, Morrant DS, Crowther MS (2019) Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo Meyer, 1793 Zootaxa 4564 (1): 173-197
• van Eeden LM, Dickman CR, Newsome TM, Crowther MS (2019) What should we do with wild dogs? Taxonomic tangles and the management of dingo-dog hybridisation. Australian Zoologist 40(1): 92-101

2018

• Ritchie EG, Smith BP, van Eeden LM, Nimmo DG (2018) Species definitions shape policy. Science 361(6409): 1324
• van Eeden LM, Eklund A, Miller JRB, López-Bao JV, Chapron G, Cejtin MR, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Frank J, Krofel M, Macdonald DW, McManus J, Meyer TK, Middleton AR, Newsome TM, Ripple WJ, Ritchie EG, Schmitz OJ, Stoner KJ, Tourani M, Treves A (2018) Carnivore conservation needs evidence-based livestock protection. PLoS Biology 16(9): e2005577
• van Eeden LM, Smith BP, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Newsome TM (2018) ‘The Dingo Menace’: an historic survey on graziers’ management of an Australian carnivore. Pacific Conservation Biology 25: 245-256
• van Eeden LM, Crowther MS, Dickman CR, Macdonald DW, Ripple WJ, Ritchie EG, Newsome TM (2018) Managing conflict between large carnivores and livestock. Conservation Biology 32(1): 26-34

2017

• van Eeden LM, Dickman CR, Ritchie EG, Newsome TM (2017) Shifting public values and what they mean for increasing democracy in wildlife management decisions. Biodiversity and Conservation 26(11): 2759–2763
• Newsome TM & van Eeden LM (2017) Food waste is still an underappreciated threat to wildlife. Animal Conservation 20(5):405-406
• Newsome TM & van Eeden LM (2017) The effects of food waste on wildlife and humans. Sustainability 9(7): 1269

Prior to PhD

• Jellie Z, Wills T, Kutt A, Hemming V, King D, McKenzie V, Retallick R, Timewell C, van Eeden L (2014) Experimental slab salvage and reinstatement after pipeline construction in a threatened grassland community. Ecological Management & Restoration 15(2): 161-165
• van Eeden L, Di Stefano J, Coulson G (2011). Diet selection by the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) in East Gippsland, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy, 33(2): 162-168.

Reports and other non-academic outputs

• Sollis K, Rajeevan U, van Eeden L, Lee K, Keniger L, Lin B, Klippan L, Marsh P & Flies E (2025) A national survey on nature connection: Nature connection and wellbeing in Australia. Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub: Sustainable People Environment Interactions (IP1). National Environmental Science Program
• Lee K, Lamont A, van Eeden L, Whiteford C & Hames F (2024) The nature and community-led approach to disaster resilience: Toolkit. Published Report. Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Heidelberg, Victoria.
• Lee K, Lamont A, Whiteford C, van Eeden L & Hames F (2024) The nature and community-led approach to disaster resilience: Story library. Published Report. Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Heidelberg, Victoria.
• Sollis K, van Eeden LM, Rajeevan U, Lin BB, Lee K, Keniger L, Klippan L, Marsh P & Flies EJ (2024) A national survey on nature connection: infographic summary. Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub: Sustainable People Environment Interactions (IP1). National Environmental Science Program
• Oke C, Lee K, Harrison L, Croeser T, Taylor M, Wandin D, Bauer K, Blackham D, Burgess T, Bush J, Cutting E, van Eeden LM, Evans D, Fahrig L, Farrell C, Fletcher M-S, Garrard G, Gaskell N, Goldsworthy K, Hahs A, Hall G, Hames F, Kendal D, Hertzog K, Kirk H, Leslie G, Lowe M, Marshall A, Martin VY, Maxwell PS, McCarthy N, McDonald A, Nicholson C, O’Connor P, Orton J, Parris K, Smith D, Smith S, Soanes K, Steele W, Stokes J, Sutton-Wilson F, Tan H-A, Thomas F, Trevena BE, van der Ree R, Varcoe T, Williams N (2024) Playbook for urban biodiversity. The University of Melbourne.
• van Eeden LM, Nimmo D, Mahony M, Herman K, Ehmke G, Driessen J, O’Connor J, Bino G, Taylor M, Dickman CR (2020) Impacts of the unprecedented 2019-2020 bushfires on Australian animals. Report prepared for WWF-Australia, Ultimo NSW

Book Chapter

• van Eeden LM & Dickman CR (2023) Estimating the number of wild animals affected by Australia’s 2019-20 wildfires. Chapter 12 in Australia’s megafires: Biodiversity impacts and lessons from 2019-2020, editors: Rumpff L, Legge SM, van Leeuwen S, Wintle BA & Woinarski JCZ. Clayton South, CSIRO Publishing.

Media & Outreach

• van Eeden L, Smith L, Bekessy S (2025) Make a noise or work with the system? New research reveals 4 ways to create real change for nature. The Conversation 31 January 2025
• van Eeden L, Renowden C, Hames F, Lee K, Hatty M, Bekessy S (2023) How Alone Australia can help us understand and appreciate our place in nature. The Conversation 9 May 2023
• van Eeden L, McLeod E, Hames F & Squires Z (2021) Research reveals why pet owners keep their cats indoors – and it’s not to protect wildlife. The Conversation 13 September 2021
  van Eeden L, Dickman C, Bruskotter J, Crowther M, Newsome T (2020) When introduced species are cute and loveable, culling them is a tricky proposition. The Conversation 11 February 2020
• van Eeden L, Treves A, Ritchie E (2018) Guardian dogs, fencing, and ‘fladry’ protect livestock from carnivores. The Conversation 26 September 2018
• Smith B, Ritchie E, van Eeden L (2018) Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes. The Conversation 31 August 2018
• Newsome T, van Eeden L, Lazenby B, Dickman C (2016) Does culling work? Australasian Science 35(1): 28-30