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    Individuals and Multilevel Management: A Study of the Perceived Adaptive Capacity of the Goose Management System among Farmers in Sweden

    Eriksson LouiseJohansson MariaM?nsson JohanRedpath Steve M....
    19页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Agricultural damage by geese is a growing problem in Europe and farmers play a key role in the emerging multilevel adaptive management system. This study explored how characteristics associated with the farmer and the farm, along with experience of damage, cognitive appraisals, emotions, and management beliefs were associated with the perceived adaptive capacity of the goose management system among farmers in the south of Sweden (n?=?1,067). Survey results revealed that owning a larger farm, a farm closer to water or formally protected areas, along with cultivating cereal and root crops, were associated with geese evoking stronger negative emotions. Further, more previous experience of damage was related to stronger negative emotions and lower levels of perceived adaptive capacity. However, even more important determinants of perceived adaptive capacity were cognitive appraisals, emotions, and management beliefs. Bridging the ties between individual farmers and the system is important for improved multilevel management.
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    “Going Green” Rhetoric or Reality: An Assessment of the Prospects and Challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme

    Nketia Sarpong Kumankuma KwadwoTakyi Stephen AppiahAmponsah OwusuYeboah Ata Senior...
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Deforestation is a major environmental problem confronting countries in the Global South. In response to the high rate of deforestation, policymakers have over the years implemented a myriad of afforestation programmes. This study sought to assess the prospects and challenges of Ghana’s Youth in Afforestation Programme. The data used for this study was collected from 60 recruits of the afforestation programme. The researchers also relied on institutional interviews and documents from relevant agencies. Overall, the results showed that the Youth in Afforestation Programme has enormous potentials in restoring Ghana’s degraded forests and protecting existing ones. However, it is confronted with several challenges ranging from financial, logistical to political. The inability of the implementing agencies and other relevant stakeholders to address these challenges has reduced the programme to a mere rhetoric rather than serving as a tool for transforming the socio-economic and environmental frontiers of the Ghanaian society.
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    Socioeconomic Trajectories of 10 Rural Federal Forest-Based Communities in the American Pacific Northwest

    Coughlan Michael R.Adams Mark D. O.Huber-Stearns HeidiKohler Gabriel...
    21页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Since the 1980s, many rural forest-based communities in the United States Pacific Northwest have experienced negative shifts in their socioeconomic well-being. Following a preceding assessment conducted in the early 2000s, we analyzed the socioeconomic status and local perspectives of change in 10 rural federal forest-based communities after 25?years of ecosystem management under the Northwest Forest Plan. We used a community classification approach to understand the variability in socioeconomic trajectories and illustrate how trajectories shape the different ways that communities define themselves as forest-based. The classification groups communities according to distinct trends in the shifting relationships between forests, community identity, and socioeconomic characteristics. We found that community well-being did not improve with trajectories retaining significant timber-based production. We discuss our results within the context of previous findings and suggest some hypotheses for deepening understanding of the relationships between the developmental pathways of rural forest-based communities and federal forest management.
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    Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries

    Szaboova LucyTurner RachelGustavsson Madeleine
    16页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine implications for women’s wellbeing. Our findings reveal that beyond supporting the economic viability of fishing businesses, women help maintain the social fabric of fisheries and nurture the physical and mental wellbeing of fishing families, often at a cost to their own material, social and emotional wellbeing. Tensions between social resilience at the household or community level and women’s individual wellbeing have important implications for fisheries policy, which rarely considers the wider social context of fisheries. We identify ways in which women’s roles and wellbeing can be included in decision-making and policy.
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    Conservation as Integration: Desire to Belong as Motivation for Environmental Conservation

    Mac Donald StaceyStaats Henk
    17页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Considering the growing need to protect nature and acknowledging that not everyone has intrinsic desires to do so, what happens when social, community-based motives are seen to align with pro-environmental behavior? Specifically, the hypothesis addressed in this study is that individuals engage in actions to protect the natural environment at least partly to improve their sense of belonging to their community. To test this hypothesis, we distributed an online survey in rural regions of the UK. We found that particularly people who are concerned about their reputation and have a strong desire to belong engage in conservation actions. Our findings support the hypothesis that people conserve the environment to enhance their sense of belonging and illustrate that there are different additional processes at work that affect the relationship between desire to belong and engagement in conservation actions.
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    Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya

    Jeppesen Maja DahlHassan Rahma
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Pastoral livelihoods are presented with new challenges as access to land is altered by climate change and privatization. Pastoralist livelihoods however continue to be reliant on mobility and pastoralists, therefore, continue to negotiate access to land in the privatized and subdivided rangelands. Various dynamics enable and constrain pastoralists’ access under this new form of land tenure, but little work has investigated the underlying power structures of access and the importance of private property for this. Based on field work in the subdivided rangelands of Kajiado county in Kenya, we argue that social structures and formal land ownership both enable and hinder pastoralists’ access to land. Moreover, while social capital is one of the most important factors for accessing pastures in subdivided rangelands, private property rights have an overarching importance for relations of access. As a result, the group ranches’ uneven allocation of land to its members has deepened inequalities in the community.
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    “Cursed by Coal”: Climate Change and the Battle over Mining Limits in the Czech Republic

    Shriver Thomas E.Adams Alison E.Longest Landen
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract Global reliance on fossil fuels presents a significant obstacle to climate change mitigation. While numerous countries have committed to phasing out their reliance on fossil fuels, many have not followed through on their promises. We consider the Czech Republic, which is attempting to expand coal mining despite the industry’s history of environmental devastation. Drawing on the literatures regarding elite legitimation and fossil fuel industries’ legitimation strategies, we analyze the coal industry’s campaign to remove mining limits that were established after the country’s democratic transition in 1991. Data come from interviews and document analysis. While extant research has established how elites can reinforce their legitimacy, our research provides insight into the specific mechanisms deployed to diffuse potential legitimacy crises. Specifically, we found that elites utilized four mechanisms: amplification, vilification, pacification, and fearmongering. We conclude by providing a roadmap for future research analyzing elite strategies to defend actions that exacerbate climate change.
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    Factors Motivating Forest Conservation Easement Adoption in Wisconsin's Northwoods

    Thompson Aaron W.Wadleigh Rebecca
    20页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract The diversity of ownership of forestlands in the Northwoods Region and the absence of strong local land use regulations represent critical barriers to protecting the health of natural resources. Seen by policymakers as a viable land protection strategy, conservation easements represent a voluntary alternative to land use regulation for forest land conservation. However, landowner adoption for privately owned forest lands remains low in Wisconsin despite more than 16 million acres nationally held by nonprofit state, local, and national land trust organizations. Despite these successes, resistance exists from non-industrial private forest landowners to the adoption of conservation easements. This study explores these barriers using data collected from mail survey responses from 470 forest landowners in Wisconsin's Northwoods. A typology of landowners is developed based on attitudes toward the adoption of conservation easements, revealing that current interest among forest landowners is below 20%, and land trusts currently lack standing as trusted partners in forest land management.
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    Societal Factors Influencing Hunting Participation Decline in Japan: An Exploratory Study of Two Prefectures

    Lovelock BrentYanata KaoriSeto YokoYamaguchi Megumi...
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract This paper responds to calls for greater focus on societal (macro) and community (meso) levels of influence on hunter recruitment and retention. Based upon interviews and focus groups undertaken in two prefectures in Japan, this exploratory study identifies a range of factors that may contribute to Japan’s declining hunting participation. While some of these align with those identified elsewhere (e.g. demographic trends of aging and rural depopulation), the study reveals other barriers that are deeply rooted in Japan’s historic and contemporary socio-cultural practices. These include gun control, the consumption of game meat, and territorial hunting practices. Much of our knowledge about hunter recruitment and retention is based on research undertaken in Western contexts. These findings illustrate the need for a broader geographical scope in this research, and the importance of historic context in order to gain a holistic understanding of hunting and its connection with society and related ecologies.
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    Evaluating Conservation Easement and Land Records Data in Rapidly Growing Counties in the United States and the Implications for Environmental Governance

    Overby Anna TreadoDyckman Caitlin S.Ogletree ScottFouch Nakisha...
    18页
    查看更多>>摘要：Abstract In the US, land records are fragmented and difficult to assemble. This paper details issues of access to land records from traditional land record institutions within US counties, focusing on conservation easements (CEs), CE geospatial data, and tax-assessment data. This paper also explores the issue of privacy related to CE land records and land trusts, the primary type of non-profit that holds CEs. Previous literature has cited landowner concerns about privacy as a driving force behind land trust’s hesitancies to share information. However, we find evidence that landowner privacy concerns may be overestimated and more nuanced than previously reported. Additionally, we document widespread issues related to access of CE documents from register of deed’s offices. This paper supports reforms to better track CEs within register of deeds offices and reforms to make land records data more accessible for pluralistic societal needs and to support inclusion in environmental governance.
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