Environment Perceptions and Conservation Preferences along the Coatepec-La Antigua Watershed, México

Ángel-Pérez, Ana Lid del; Villagómez-Cortés, José Alfredo

doi:10.1080/09709274.2014.11906729

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“…For example, a study conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo revealed a perception shared especially among women that agroforestry brings birds which damage crops, and that participating in agroforestry requires physical "hardiness" that men tend to possess [86]. In another study of landscape preferences of rural and urban residents of Veracruz, Mexico, respondents favored cultivated land, including monocultures, over native forests, based on ecological grounds [87]. This demonstrates significant dissonance between this sample's perception and that of contemporary ecology.…”

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“…This demonstrates significant dissonance between this sample's perception and that of contemporary ecology. It was also mentioned that people preferred the type of landscape that they have known since their childhood, perceiving it to be ecologically sound [87]. This points to the possibility of significant resistance to the implementation of agroforestry based on conflicting views of ecology and the impact of agricultural practices.…”

Section: Resistance To the Meansmentioning

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The Embedded Agroecology of Coffee Agroforestry: A Contextualized Review of Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption and Resistance

Wienhold

Goulão

2023

Sustainability

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Contemporary ecology and agronomy point to the many benefits of agroforestry crop systems for the provision of ecosystem services by regenerating native ecologies, and in many contexts, socio-economic benefits for coffee farmers, especially the contribution of nitrogen-fixing trees’ litter to soil nutrition and water retention. However, the implementation of agroforestry in coffee cultivation is thus far incomplete and uptake has been uneven. In this paper, we examine the adoption and non-adoption of agroforestry coffee growing techniques as a reflection of the historical, social and cultural embeddedness of smallholder coffee cultivation. It is structured as a narrative literature review contextualized with the results of surveys of smallholder coffee farmers in Colombia, Malawi and Uganda regarding their perceptions of agroforestry coffee in their respective contexts. Findings suggest that coffee farmers’ perceptions of agroforestry and the decision to implement or remove it are influenced by factors included in the notion of embeddedness, involving social relations, historical memory and formal and informal institutions, as well as practical capabilities. Intention and action are sometimes discordant due to the complex interactions of these institutional factors, and they often conflict with outside interveners’ expectations based on epistemological differences. The study illuminates some of the main sources, manifestations and dimensions of the social embeddedness of agricultural practices which mediate the perception of current practices, the sacrifice implied by potential changes, the credibility of theories linking action with outcome and the desirability of expected outcomes.

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Section: Resistance To the Meansmentioning

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Section: Resistance To the Meansmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Embedded Agroecology of Coffee Agroforestry: A Contextualized Review of Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption and Resistance

Wienhold

Goulão

2023

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“…The twin factors of increasing economic activity and population growth in economically developing countries is often associated with increasing energy and consumption demand (ATIQUL HAQ ET AL., 2010), frequently leading to accelerated environmental degradation despite improved technological efficiencies in resource use (IIZUKA, 2000). Associated impacts include (among others) water scarcity, air, soil, noise and light pollution, global climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, ocean acidification and hazardous waste disposal; each posing dangerous threats to current and future human and nonhuman life and wellbeing (MISHRA & SHUKLA, 2013;OSBALDISTON & SCHOTT, 2012;STERN, 2000, DEL ANGEL-PEREZ & VILLAGOMEZ-CORTES, 2014DAVIES & HODGE, 2007;ZAND HESSAMI & YOUSEFI, 2013;BARBER ET AL., 2009).…”

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Environmental values in the petrochemical industry: A Q-method study in South West Iran

Ghoochani

Bakhshi

Cotton

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Environmental &Amp; Socio-Economic Studies

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Achieving sustainable development in different regional and cultural contexts is dependent, in part, upon an understanding of key actors’ underlying environmental, social and economic values. The social research technique called Q-methodology presents an effective means to explore such values as a matter of discourse: revealing the typologies of stakeholder perspectives within a given debate. Q-method involves factor analysis of participant rank-ordered preselected statements on a topic. The resultant factors are then reinterpreted as social discourses. In this study we use Q-methodology to explore the environmental values of Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) managers in petrochemical companies in Khuzestan province in southwest Iran. Khuzestan is a key region of petrochemical product development, with significant associated environmental pollution effects. Understanding HSE managers’ attitudes to environmental protection is of value in predicting broader environmental impacts to the region, given the relative importance of their role in regulating the environmental performance of this industry. Our results reveal four distinct and varied perspectives on environmental protection labelled: ‘Environmental stewardship’, ‘Environmental presentism’, ‘Technological optimism’ and ‘Enlightened anthropocentrism’. We then discuss how these four emergent perspectives correspond to broader environmental discourses as categorized by John Dryzek: i.e. green rationalism, economic rationalism, prometheanism and ecological modernization respectively.

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Environment Perceptions and Conservation Preferences along the Coatepec-La Antigua Watershed, México

Cited by 2 publications

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The Embedded Agroecology of Coffee Agroforestry: A Contextualized Review of Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption and Resistance

The Embedded Agroecology of Coffee Agroforestry: A Contextualized Review of Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption and Resistance

Environmental values in the petrochemical industry: A Q-method study in South West Iran

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