Applying behavioral theories to invasive animal management: Towards an integrated framework

McLeod, Lynette J.; Hine, Donald W.; Please, Patricia M.; Driver, Aaron B.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.06.048

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“…Crop losses due to insect pests may be prevented, or reduced, by deploying effective crop protection measures, which to a large extent depends on farmers' knowledge and behavior towards pest management, and the availability and effectiveness of crop protection methods. [17][18][19] It is important to understand what farmers know about insect pests, their perceptions about crop yield damage, the control methods they choose to apply, and the perceived effectiveness of these methods. This justifies the need to survey farmers to obtain insights into the realities which influence pest management decisions, particularly those related to insect pests.…”

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Farmer perception of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiderda J.E. Smith) and farm‐level management practices in Zambia

Kansiime

Mugambi

Rwomushana

et al. 2019

Pest Management Science

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BACKGROUND This paper documents farmer perceptions and management practices for fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiderda J.E. Smith), providing a baseline for the development of sustainable pest management strategies. RESULTS 91% of farmers correctly identified fall armyworm, and reported it as the most important maize pest during 2016/2017 cropping season, affecting nearly half of cultivated area. Estimated maize yield loss during the season, attributed to fall armyworm was 28%. A majority of farmers (60%) used pesticides for fall armyworm control, along with other cultural/physical practices – hand picking and crushing egg masses/caterpillars (36%), and application of ash/sand in the funnel (19%). Farmers used various pesticide active ingredients, and protective measures were inadequate; >50% of farmers did not use any protective measures while spraying. Significantly more male than female farmers used pesticides (P = 0.05), and the reverse was true for cultural practices. Significant maize yield differences (P = 0.001) were observed by gender, attributed to differences in utilization of production inputs/practices. At least 77% of farmers received and shared agricultural advice, which can be optimized to spread information on fall armyworm management options. CONCLUSION Increased use of pesticides to manage fall armyworm poses health and environmental risks, besides the high cost for farmers and governments. Research into cultural and indigenous practices used by farmers will offer opportunities for alternative and sustainable management practices. Research efforts should pay attention to gender differences in access to resources and inputs. Tackling fall armyworm at the farm level, and averting yield losses will require integrated messaging addressing other production risks. © 2019 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

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Farmer perception of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiderda J.E. Smith) and farm‐level management practices in Zambia

Kansiime

Mugambi

Rwomushana

et al. 2019

Pest Management Science

127

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“…This literature has typically focused on investigating resident involvement in IS control by understanding individuals' attitudes, values, behavioral control beliefs, and knowledge on how to control a species (Aslan et al 2009, Sharp et al 2011, Kalnicky et al 2014, McLeod et al 2015. Aslan et al (2009), for example, found that individuals' decisions to engage in control of yellow star thistle (Centaurea solstitialis L.) across private lands were influenced by lack of knowledge of proper control techniques and perceptions of lack of money and time for engaging.…”

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“…Sharp et al (2011) found that environmental attitudes, as well as knowledge of the impacts of IS, were predictors of people's IS management support. This focus on knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral control beliefs is also reflected in the types of interventions that are used for motivating behavior: often, agencies or nonprofit organizations focus primarily on educating the public about the negative impacts of IS in the hopes of combating invasion (McLeod et al 2015).…”

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“…This research has suggested a multitude of other interpersonal, intrapersonal, and contextual factors that may affect environmental behavior and may thus help inform the design of more effective interventions for enhancing resident IS control activism across private lands (Heimlich and Ardoin 2008). However, the application of social science behavioral models to IS control research is rare (see Prinbeck et al [2011] as one example), and the application of integrative models that investigate the relative influence of a wide range of potentially important factors identified from the social science literature is even less common (McLeod et al 2015).…”

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Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

Niemiec¹,

Ardoin²,

Wharton³

et al. 2016

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“…On the one hand, emotion is understood to have no place in rational decision‐making. On the other hand, the exclusion of alternative views of invasive species as anti‐truth (Ricciardi et al., ) contrasts with the management risks of failure to understand and take into consideration the emotional bonds or attachments people might have with invasive animals, where emotion might attune or sensitise (Gobster, ), engage (Ernwein & Fall, ), motivate (McLeod et al., ), or be used to better understand publics (Nimmo et al., ). This work is yet to attend to the affective politics of killing invasive animals as a normative and ongoing practice of environmental care.…”

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Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia

Atchison

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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As the product of not always rational human thought, emotions are either excluded from or considered to be barriers to effective invasive species management. In a context where fish are still disregarded, in this paper I consider the affective and emotional geographies of the world's most broadly distributed freshwater fish, carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia, in emerging sites of management that involve killing. Invasive species management is yet to reconcile emotion and the affective politics of killing invasive animals as a normative and ongoing practice of care for the environment. This paper advances animal geographies by developing a conceptual understanding of the biopolitics of invasive life and invasive species management by thinking through carp as affective and emotional subjects. To do this I look to feminist approaches that conceptualise emotion as relational, including Ahmed's analysis of emotion as movement, and visceral geographies' extension of embodied meaning-making beyond the human. Drawing on original empirical analysis of managing carp, I identify how carp are performed as collectively disgusting or monstrous objects and how emotions are submerged and people can become indifferent to, or "pull away" from, ethical deliberation. However, attending to affect and emotion beyond the human subject also allows carp to emerge as different kinds of "spooky" subjects who, through conflicting, constantly changing, and more-than-invasive relationships, resist singular and hegemonic understandings. Taking a feminist approach allows me to consider how carp have affective biopolitical agency, in life and death, across these multiple subjectivities with power to transform human relationships with nature by situating and re-engaging people in the problems of the world. Indeed, I argue that it is through the affective and emotional practices of managing carp that people might also begin to apprehend their responsibilities and limitations in the Anthropocene. K E Y W O R D S affect, carp (Cyprinus carpio), disgust, emotion, feminist methodology, invasive species management

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Applying behavioral theories to invasive animal management: Towards an integrated framework

Cited by 70 publications

References 67 publications

Farmer perception of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiderda J.E. Smith) and farm‐level management practices in Zambia

Farmer perception of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiderda J.E. Smith) and farm‐level management practices in Zambia

Motivating residents to combat invasive species on private lands: social norms and community reciprocity

Between disgust and indifference: Affective and emotional relations with carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia

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