Professor
Dr. Warner is a professor and an Extension education specialist in translating behavioral theory into practical action. Her focus includes program evaluation, behavior change, and social marketing.
Dr. Warner’s research focuses on understanding behavioral influences on best practice adoption (especially those related to water conservation/quality and pollinator conservation) and incorporates these findings into strategies to elicit behavior change.
Through her Extension programs, Dr. Warner supports Extension professionals in eliciting behavior change among their clientele and capturing resulting outcomes and impacts.
Dr. Warner has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Environmental Horticulture from the University of Florida, and an Ed.D. in Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications jointly from Texas A&M and Texas Tech Universities.
Cultivating Community Change: Certificate Program in Social Marketing — Social marketing is a proven behavior-change strategy that applies traditional marketing principles to behavior change that benefits a community and its residents. Dr. Warner offers this online certificate program, designed to provide an overview of this strategy as applied to Extension and outreach programming.
Silvert, C. J., Warner, L. A., Diaz, J. M., Taylor, N., Ruggeri, D. (2024). A call for water conservation research interventions informed by community engagement and input: “There was no going back after my trust in it turned”. Frontiers in Water, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1395414
Warner, L. A., Kalauni, D., Diaz, J. M., Yazdanpanah, M., & Pasula, S. (2024). Beyond awareness: the persuasion stage of decision-making explains urban residents’ compliance with landscape irrigation restrictions. Urban Water Journal, 21(4), 436–447. https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2024.2312498
Warner, L. A., Cardenas-Lailhacar, B., Dukes, M. D., Taylor, N., Irwin, D., and Harmon, J. (2023). Insights from residents under year-round irrigation restrictions to improve water conservation impacts. AWWA Water Science, 5(4), e1348. https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1348
Warner, L. A., and Diaz, J. M. (2023). High impact water conservation: Factors explaining residents’ intent to reduce irrigation in the yard. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 39(3), 507–529. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2093170
Warner, L. A., Rihn, A. L., Fulcher, A., Schexnayder, S., LeBude, A. V., and Joshi, A. (2022). A theory of planned behavior evaluation of growers’ intent to use automated nursery technologies. Horticulturae, 8(11), 1028. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8111028
Title: “Labor, Efficiency, Automation, and Production: LEAP Nursery Crops Toward Sustainability”
Duration: 2024-2029
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Award Amount: $9.8M
Role: co-Principle Investigator
Title: “Rainfall signage to reduce residential irrigation”
Duration: 2021-2023
Funding Agency: Southwest Florida Water Management District
Award Amount: $107,474
Role: Principle Investigator
Title: “If you build it will they buzz?”
Duration: 2021-2024
Funding Agency: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Award Amount: $476,019
Role: co-Principle Investigator
Title: “Roadsides project to support biodiversity.”
Duration: 2023-2024
Funding Agency: Disney Conservation Fund
Award Amount: $27,149
Role: co-Principle Investigator
Title: “Investigating urban residents’ willingness to navigate barriers preventing landscape maintenance activities that support wildlife”
Duration: 2023-2024
Funding Agency: University of Florida Center for Land Use Efficiency
Award Amount: $37,255
Role: Principle Investigator
