Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science

Wardropper, Chloe B.; Angerer, Jay P.; Burnham, Morey; Fernández‐Giménez, María E.; Jansen, Vincent; Karl, Jason W.; Lee, Katherine; Wollstein, Katherine

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2021.07.001

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“…Furthermore, ranch-level decision-making requires complex accounting of financial and ecological factors across multiple scales, which makes decision-making difficult to predict (Wardropper et al, 2021;…”

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Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions

Wardropper,

Graves,

Brandt

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Many of the world's iconic, endangered and endemic species rely on large, contiguous landscapes for their survival. In the US West, working ranches are integral to large landscape conservation goals and there are numerous influences on ranchers' conservation actions, including their relational values, perceived self‐efficacy and property rights concerns. Using survey data from 681 ranchers in eastern Idaho and western Montana, we sought to answer the question: How do relational values, property rights orientations, perceived efficacy and public lands dependence affect reported conservation actions on private ranch lands? Conservation adoption varied widely by action, with invasive plant removal having the highest (92%) and conifer removal the lowest (21%) rates of adoption. Conservation adoption was higher among ranchers who believe they are responsible for conserving nature, believe their land should be used to provide environmental benefits to the region, have higher perceived self‐efficacy, lower property rights concerns and higher incomes. Programmes encouraging the adoption of conservation on private lands could benefit from message framing that resonates with the worldviews of landowners and land managers. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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confidence: 99%

Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions

Wardropper,

Graves,

Brandt

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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“…However, as described in recent research, there are still significant barriers for ranchers to use these types of tools including individual preference, lack of capacity, difficult interpretation, lack of management direction, and low suitability. 39,40 To help overcome a number of these barriers further research could elucidate manager data preference queries 41,42 and/or integrate higher spatial and temporal resolution forage estimates into the economic model. With subsequent work, monthly forage production estimated at a higher resolution could be integrated into the model.…”

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Quantifying the effects of vegetation productivity and drought scenarios on livestock production decisions and income

Wold¹,

Meddens²,

Lee³

et al. 2023

Rangelands

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“…Consequently, many managers are unaware of how digital tools might improve land management processes and outcomes. 18,19…”

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Managing an arid ranch in the 21st century: New technologies for novel ecosystems

Bestelmeyer,

Utsumi,

McCord

et al. 2023

Rangelands

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Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science

Cited by 16 publications

References 76 publications

Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions

Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions

Quantifying the effects of vegetation productivity and drought scenarios on livestock production decisions and income

Managing an arid ranch in the 21st century: New technologies for novel ecosystems

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