Environmental values and attitudes among farmers in China – a case study in the watershed of Yuqiao reservoir of Tianjin Municipality, China

Orderud, Geir Inge; Vogt, Rolf D.

doi:10.1080/00207233.2016.1220699

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“…These results align with recent research (Orderud & Vogt, ; Xiao, Dunlap, & Hong, ) to suggest that attitudinal support for conservation initiatives is growing in China. At both sites and in both time periods, respondents expressed strong support for wildlife and concern about the wildlife trade, and an overwhelming majority said they would like to do more to help wildlife.…”

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“…These results align with recent research (Orderud & Vogt, 2016;Xiao, Dunlap, & Hong, 2013) to suggest that attitudinal support for concern about the wildlife trade, and an overwhelming majority said they would like to do more to help wildlife. The most significant barriers to doing more were identified as not knowing what actions to engage in, and not feeling that one's actions could make a difference.…”

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confidence: 87%

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Confronting the wildlife trade through public education at zoological institutions in Chengdu, P.R. China

Clayton

Bexell

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Zoo Biology

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The wildlife trade poses substantial threats to global biodiversity. China is a significant source of threatened species and also a market for wildlife products. Zoological parks (zoos), which are a popular leisure attraction in China as elsewhere, are increasingly conceptualized as places to educate visitors about both animals and environmental threats more generally. This paper reports on an attempt to inform Chinese zoo visitors about the threats presented by the wildlife trade, and about the opportunity to take personal actions to help protect wildlife. Results from a baseline survey of attitudes among 524 adult visitors to animal exhibits in Chengdu, China showed a high degree of concern about wildlife paired with a lack of confidence about what could be done. A sense of connection to nature, along with a perception of personal efficacy, were the strongest predictors of concern about the wildlife trade. Based in part on these results, an informational exhibit was designed and implemented in two locations in Chengdu. A survey of 533 visitors to assess the impact of the new exhibit showed that connection and perceived efficacy continued to predict concern, and that talking about the exhibit was associated with increased knowledge and concern. Though causality cannot be definitively concluded, results suggest that zoos have the potential to influence attitudes and perceived norms regarding the wildlife trade. By affirming the importance of a feeling of connection, the findings indicate that animal facilities may have an important role in fostering the human relationship to the natural world.

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Confronting the wildlife trade through public education at zoological institutions in Chengdu, P.R. China

Clayton

Bexell

et al. 2018

Zoo Biology

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“…These cultivations further are informed by dynamic and shifting values within cultures. For instance, a recent case study in China exhibits ways contemporary farmers' environmental values adhere more to a harmonious proenvironmental New Ecological Paradigm than a mastery exploitive orientation of a Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP) and hints at ways shifts in governmental framing over time from a highly economic focus to a more environmental focus may generationally parallel elder farmers' stronger adherence to a DSP worldview (Orderud and Vogt, 2016).…”

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“Tree Is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia

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This study investigates ecocultural discourses and practices among the Gedeo in southern Ethiopia within the contexts of globalizing commodification of nature, successive governmental extractivist and conservationist discourses, and increasingly influential colonial present religious systems. Our analysis illustrates ways in which indigenous Gedeo understandings of reciprocal ecological coexistence are rooted in cultural knowledge, values, and customs. However, competing forms of knowledge introduced in the form of governance, commerce, conservation, and religion have resulted in an in-process shift from traditionally, spiritually maintained mutualist human-environment relations to dualist commodified relations, particularly among youth, and dualist expert-reliant conservationist relations emanating from governmental bodies. By examining a traditional meaning system during an explicit process of erasure, the study points to ways local meanings of, and narratives about, ecocultural interactions are produced and communicated within wider contexts of power, and illustrates tensions among traditional, governmental, capitalist, conservationist, and religious environmental ontologies in everyday and institutional practice.

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“…Although practising farming in a socio-natural transformed environment, the farmers in the Yuqiao watershed were found to be more inclined to support a New Ecological Paradigm than a Dominant Social Paradigm worldview, but many farmers had mixed attitudes and might go in one or the other direction [25]. Farmers reported a fairly broad range of information and instruction sources for farming and the use of fertilizers [26], indicating a wide knowledge base.…”

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Interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes for environmental management under different socio-natural conditions

Orderud

Vogt

Tan

et al. 2018

International Journal of Environmental Studies

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Interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes as part of environmental management respond to the increasing complexity of socio-natural changes in recent decades. Two similar studies of eutrophication in raw water reservoirs for drinking water production in Norway and China are used to discuss interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes organised through the DPSIR framework (drivers, pressures, states, impacts, and responses) as instruments for environmental management. The conclusion is that interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes can enhance the understanding of complex socio-natural processes under distinctly different institutional systems. The DPSIR framework was not necessary for achieving the desired result.

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Environmental values and attitudes among farmers in China – a case study in the watershed of Yuqiao reservoir of Tianjin Municipality, China

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Confronting the wildlife trade through public education at zoological institutions in Chengdu, P.R. China

Confronting the wildlife trade through public education at zoological institutions in Chengdu, P.R. China

“Tree Is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia

Interdisciplinary research and transdisciplinary processes for environmental management under different socio-natural conditions

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