Combining internal and external motivations in multi-actor governance arrangements for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; Admiraal, Jeroen; Beringer, Almut; Bonaiuto, Flavia; Cicero, Lavinia; Fernandez-Wulff, Paula; Hagens, J.E.; Hiedanpää, Juha; Knights, Paul; Molinario, Erica; Melindi‐Ghidi, Paolo; Popa, Florin; Šilc, Urban; Soethe, Nathalie; Soininen, Tiina; Vivero, Jose Luis

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.12.003

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“…For example, in a study on activism in the forest sector, McFarlane and Hunt (2006) found an interaction effect of several social-psychological variables, including values, attitudes, and identity, with contextual factors referring to the economic and cultural context of respondents. Dedeurwaerdere et al (2016) found empirical support for the role of the governance framework in promoting self-determination of the actors (such as feelings of autonomy of choice and competence) in key biodiversity initiatives. Also, the role of organizational network of activists was considered.…”

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What makes you a ‘hero’ for nature? Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries

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Molinario

Bonaiuto

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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Section: Towards An Integrative Framework Of Activism: the Role Of Momentioning

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What makes you a ‘hero’ for nature? Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries

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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…was conducted in order to explore other arrangements and to characterize the arrangements identified. The focus was on Buizer et al (2015), Dedeurwaerdere et al (2016), De Snoo et al (2013, Driessen (2005), Hall et al (2015), Horlings (1994), Lokhorst et al (2011), Meijer, Catacutan, Ajayi, Sileshi, andNieuwenhuis (2015), Mitrokostas and Apostolakis (2013), Pretty (2008), Runhaar et al (2015), Smits, Driessen, and Glasbergen (2008), Van Dijk, Lokhorst, Berendse, and de Snoo (2015).…”

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Promoting nature conservation by Dutch farmers: a governance perspective

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Melman

Boonstra

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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Reconciling productive agricultural practices with nature conservation is not only an ecological challenge, but also a demanding matter of governance. This paper analyses the potential as well as the limitations of various governance arrangements, and explores ways to enhance the governance of nature conservation in agricultural landscapes. We assume four conditions to contribute to the performance of these arrangements: farmers should be motivated, demanded, enabled, and legitimized to participate in arrangements that promote nature conservation by farmers. We analyse 10 distinct Dutch governance arrangements in the period 2000-2016, including agri-environment schemes but also privately initiated arrangements. The arrangements target a large but unknown share of farmers and farmlands, but nature conservation ambition levels are generally low to moderate. The expected low-to-moderate performance is associated with a low-tomoderate motivation, demand, and ability. Underlying are stronger forces driving towards intensification and problems farmers face in recuperating the cost of nature conservation. New greening requirements in the EU Common Agricultural Policy and in agri-food supply chains are first, cautious steps addressing these fundamental drivers of ecological degradation. More ambitious greening requirements may contribute to a higher motivation and ability of larger groups of farmers to implement nature conservation measures.

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“…Specifically, related economic approaches may crowd out other non-economic motivations (Gómez-Baggethun & Ruiz-Pérez 2011; Rode et al 2015). Research from outside the ecosystem services community demonstrates that committed action for nature rests on grounds other than economic values, such as the development of trust between stakeholders and other moral standards (Flint et al 2013;Hiedanpää & Borgström 2014;Sponarski et al 2014) and room for autonomous action in conservation initiatives (Dedeurwaerdere et al 2016).…”

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Motivations for committed nature conservation action in Europe

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SUMMARYDespite ongoing efforts to motivate politicians and publics in Europe regarding nature conservation, biodiversity continues to decline. Monetary valuation of ecosystem services appears to be insufficient to motivate people, suggesting that non-monetary values have a crucial role to play. There is insufficient information about the motivations of actors who have been instrumental in successful conservation projects. We investigated the motivations underlying these biodiversity actors using the ranking of cards and compared the results with the rankings of motivations of a second group of actors with more socially related interests. For both groups of actors, their action relating to biodiversity was supported in general by two groups of motivations related to living a meaningful life and moral values. The non-biodiversity actors also noted that their action relating to biodiversity rested more on beauty, place attachment and intrinsic values in comparison with their main non-biodiversity interests. Our results have implications for environmental policy and biodiversity conservation in that the current tendency of focusing on the economic valuation of biodiversity fails to address the motivations of successful actors, thereby failing to motivate nature conservation on an individual level.

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Combining internal and external motivations in multi-actor governance arrangements for biodiversity and ecosystem services

Cited by 55 publications

References 37 publications

What makes you a ‘hero’ for nature? Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries

What makes you a ‘hero’ for nature? Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries

Promoting nature conservation by Dutch farmers: a governance perspective

Motivations for committed nature conservation action in Europe

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