Reliance on sources of information for water-saving practices by irrigators in the High Plains of the U.S.A.

Kromm, David E.; White, Stephen E.

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(91)90005-d

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“…Research has also found that preferred sources of information vary by geographic location and landowners use multiple sources of information (Kromm andWhite 1991, Tucker andNapier 2002). Consequently, research conducted in different geographic areas can reveal distinct geographic preferences and the use of more than one type of information source.…”

Section: Trusted Sources Of Informationmentioning

confidence: 95%

Landowner motivations for watershed restoration: lessons from five watersheds

Rosenberg

Margerum

2008

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Collaborative watershed management initiatives have increased tremendously over the past decade. One of the critical questions for these initiatives is how to influence private land management practices to improve watershed health. This article researches landowner motivations and preferences for watershed restoration efforts in five watersheds in Western Oregon. Based on a survey of 446 landowners and 80 personal interviews, the research revealed that landowner perspectives vary by socio-economic, cultural, and land use characteristics. They are strongly motivated by a concern for future generations and interpersonal influence is particularly important. Finances, time, and unfamiliarity were all significant barriers to the adoption of conservation practices. The findings also revealed considerable variation among landowners as to their trusted sources of information and preferred outreach methods. Beyond the findings in Oregon, the research suggests that watershed initiatives need to understand landowner characteristics and motivating factors to better promote watershed restoration and target outreach efforts.watershed management, landowner behavior, community-based collaboratives,

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Section: Trusted Sources Of Informationmentioning

confidence: 95%

Landowner motivations for watershed restoration: lessons from five watersheds

Rosenberg

Margerum

2008

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…In the last 25 years, however, there have been increasing signs of over-pumping of the resource and resultant economic and social costs (McGuire and Fischer 2000). Complementing a variety of recent studies on the management of the High Plains aquifer (Kromm and White 1991;Kromm and White 1992;Roberts 1992;Emel and Roberts 1995;White and Kromm 1995;Stephenson 1996;Opie 2000), our work has explored how organizational structures have supported or blocked the construction of salient, credible and legitimate information for a range of decision makers about water issues.…”

Section: Water Management In the Us Great Plainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy and Boundaries: Linking Research, Assessment and Decision Making

Cash¹,

et al. 2003

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The boundary between science and policy is only one of several boundaries that hinder the linking of scientific and technical information to decision making. Managing boundaries between disciplines, across scales of geography and jurisdiction, and between different forms of knowledge is also often critical to transferring information. The research presented in this paper finds that information requires three (not mutually exclusive) attributes -salience, credibility, and legitimacy -and that what makes boundary crossing difficult is that actors on different sides of a boundary perceive and value salience, credibility, and legitimacy differently. Presenting research on water management regimes in the United States, international agricultural research systems, El Niño forecasting systems in the Pacific and southern Africa, and fisheries in the North Atlantic, this paper explores: 1) how effective boundary work involves creating salient, credible, and legitimate information simultaneously for multiple audiences; 2) the thresholds, complementarities and tradeoffs between salience, credibility, and legitimacy when crossing boundaries; and 3) propositions for institutional mechanisms in boundary organizations which effectively balance tradeoffs, take advantage on complementarities, and reach thresholds of salience, credibility, and legitimacy.

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“…Shetty (1969), Kromm and White (1991), Breetz et al (2005), and Ferranto et al (2012) advocate improved communication between government and farmers to overcome barriers to adopting pro-environmental practices; in this vein, the New Zealand government is actively exploring participatory, collaborative, and co-governance models (Mackenzie and Harcombe n.d.) that aim to empower agricultural decision makers and to engage them in pro-environmental behaviours. Unfortunately, survey results show that rural decision makers in New Zealand on average trust environmental information provided by regional councils less than that provided by any other source except television (Small et al, 2015), suggesting that regional councils require advocates from the farming community to spread information about new practices and technologies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Blind (2006) notes that public trust in government and political institutions has been decreasing in all advanced industrialised democracies since the mid-1960s. Moreover, some farmers are simply "difficult-to-reach" as they choose to trust other sources of information over resource-management experts such as regional councils (Kromm and White, 1991;Morrison et al, 2015). Such farmers look increasingly to other members of the farming community for credible information about environmental performance (Carr and Tait, 1990).…”

Section: Institutional Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 98%