Welcome to Lestari’s resources page—a curated collection of guides and reports designed to inspire and empower environmental educators, evaluators, and researchers. Explore these practical tools and feel free to reach out to us with any questions, and please do share them widely across your networks to amplify our collective impact from these outputs.
If you are an education practitioner or someone interested in hard copies of any of our resources, such as the Discovery Cards as a development tool, contact us at info@lestari.org and we may be able to arrange getting you some copies.
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Visit Lestari’s YouTube channel to explore some of the films and podcasts which we have created for our projects.
While We Still Can Playbook
This playbook documents a youth-led environmental initiative that fuses creative arts with community engagement. It offers practical strategies and inspiring ideas for empowering young environmental changemakers.
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Education at a Time of Emergency – A Practitioner’s Handbook
This handbook equips educators with social science approaches and case studies for addressing the environmental and climate emergencies. It integrates behavioural insights with innovative teaching approaches to foster nature connectedness and empower transformative learning.
Education at a Time of Emergency – Discovery Cards
These discovery cards serve as interactive prompts that encourage educators to explore behaviour change principles in environmental education, stimulating critical reflection and creative engagement to support effective, hands-on learning.
Three Rivers Research Report
Report presenting research findings and key insights to inform community engagement and nature recovery at the National Trust’s Killerton Estate in Devon.
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Campaign for National Parks Health Check Report
Report documenting mapping and analysis support for Campaign for National Park’s Health Check, including assessing protected site and water body condition, peat depth and health, and land use.
Trees Outside of Woodland – An Exploration of Social and Cultural Values – Photo Essay
This photo essay explores different aspects of Trees Outside of Woodland from social and cultural perspectives, created from interviews with artists/creatives and researchers.
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Trees Outside of Woodland – An Exploration of Social and Cultural Values – Scoping Review
A detailed review of the literature which integrates diverse perspectives from language, art, history, literature, folklore, and landscape studies, exploring a wide range of social and cultural values associated with Trees Outside of Woodland.
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Storytelling for Evaluating Impact Report
We worked with the Ernest Cook Trust’s Outdoor Weeks of Learning project to develop a co-created evaluation approach based on stories of change.
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Research Publications
A selection of peer-reviewed articles published by the Lestari team.
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Hilser, H., Cox, E., Moreau, C., Hiraldo, L., Draiby, A., Winks, L., … & Walworth, N. G. (2024). Localized governance of carbon dioxide removal in Small Island Developing States. Environmental Development, 49, 100942.
Our research with carbon dioxide removal start-up Vesta, explored public perspectives on climate change mitigation. For vulnerable island nations to successfully implement carbon removal projects, local communities must be involved in the planning and decision-making process. We found that giving residents a voice in these projects increases local buy-in and makes climate change mitigation strategies more effective. For climate solutions to work, they must be developed from the ground up, with local people leading the way.
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Hilser, H., Hiraldo, L., Moreau, C., Draiby, A., Cox, E., Andrews, M. G., … & Walworth, N. G. (2024). Public engagement and collaboration for carbon dioxide removal: lessons from a project in the Dominican Republic. Frontiers in Climate, 6, 1290999.
Supporting the position paper above, we also documented the exploratory project in the Dominican Republic where Lestari developed a social science and community engagement framework. Our findings stress that public trust is essential for deploying CDR, covering diverse approaches from nature-based solutions to technology-based methods. We advocate for collaborative processes that involve scientists, policymakers, and communities to address uncertainties and ensure equitable outcomes, moving beyond technical aspects to consider the social, ethical, and political dimensions.
