U.S. farmers’ sense of place and its relation to conservation behavior

Mullendore, Nathan D.; Ulrich‐Schad, Jessica D.; Prokopy, Linda Stalker

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.04.005

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“…Therefore, when feeling concerned with the deterioration of the mangroves, villagers would be eager to engage in ECB. This finding is related to the study of Mullendore et al (2015), which stated that place identity greatly influences a wide range of conservation behaviors of U.S. farmers, such as conservation program enrollment, adoption of buffers and grassed waterways. It could be argued that when people identify the community as their house, they prefer to keep their house clean and livable.…”

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Evaluating determinants of rural Villagers’ engagement in conservation and waste management behaviors based on integrated conceptual framework of Pro-environmental behavior

Janmaimool

Denpaiboon

2016

Life Sci Soc Policy

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This study aims to evaluate determinants of villagers’ engagement in pro-environmental behavior (PEB), including ecological conservation behavior (ECB) and waste management behavior (WMB). An integrated exploratory model representing the proposed relationship between villagers’ engagement in ECB/WMB and their determinants was created based on the integration of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the Stern’s value belief norm (VBN) theory, environmental education and psychosocial characteristic perspectives. The potential predictors included a community norm, environmental knowledge, sense of obligation and self-efficacy, life satisfaction, place attachment, environmental worldview, perceived local environmental values, and psychosocial characteristics. Questionnaire surveys with villagers residing in the Nernkhor sub-district, Rayong province, Thailand, were conducted. The results of multiple regression analyses revealed that individuals’ engagement in ECB and WMB could be predicted by a different set of predictors. ECB was well predicted by self-efficacy, place identity, and perceived environmental values; whereas, WMB was well predicted by community norm, gender, age, knowledge related to action strategies, and self-efficacy. Therefore, different environmental strategies should be constructed to enhance the engagement of villagers in pro-environmental behaviors.

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Evaluating determinants of rural Villagers’ engagement in conservation and waste management behaviors based on integrated conceptual framework of Pro-environmental behavior

Janmaimool

Denpaiboon

2016

Life Sci Soc Policy

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“…There are a number of additional variables that may be worthy of more consideration that do not appear in the tables presented here due either to very low frequency of occurrence or because they are only included in willingness-to-adopt studies, which are not reviewed here. These include awareness of the impact one's own farm has on the environment (Napier and Tucker 2001), trust in government (Lubell et al 2013), a farmer's sense of place (Mullendore et al 2015), overall farmer satisfaction and satisfaction with stress level (Winsten et al 2011), farmers' mental health (Burnett 2014), the role of collective decision making (Stallman and James 2017), farm distance to urban centers (Zhang et al 2016), and distance to critically affected bodies of water like Lake Erie (Wilson et al 2014). Other variables suggested by common social science theories do not seem to be frequently or effectively operationalized in the farmer conservation practice adoption literature; prominent among these missing variables is the role of social norms (Schwartz 1977;Stern 2000;Fishbein and Ajzen 2010).…”

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Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature

Prokopy¹,

Floress²,

Arbuckle³

et al. 2019

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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This is a comprehensive review of all published, quantitative studies focused on adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States between 1982 and 2017. This review finds that, taken as a whole, few independent variables have a consistent statistically significant relationship with adoption. Analyses showed that variables positively associated with adoption include the farmer self-identifying primarily as stewardship motivated or otherwise nonfinancially motivated, environmental attitudes, a positive attitude toward the particular program or practice, previous adoption of other conservation practices, seeking and using information, awareness of programs or practices, vulnerable land, greater farm size, higher levels of income and formal education, engaging in marketing arrangements, and positive yield impact expected. Some variables often thought to be important, such as land tenure, did not emerge as consistently important in this cross-study review. Other variables, such as farmers' sense of place, training, presence of institutional conditions supporting adoption, and the role of collective decision making are not measured in enough studies to draw conclusions but potentially have a relationship with adoption decisions. Implications for how to promote conservation adoption and directions for future research are discussed. Because positive attitudes and awareness of conservation programs or practices are positive predictors of adoption, practitioners should share benefits of specific practices and programs and leverage existing practice adoption. Further work to explore relationships between conservation adoption and the role of farmer identity, nuances of land tenure, and the influence of structural factors is needed. Moreover, we suggest that future research should focus on the impact of different messages and avenues of reaching farmers in order to continue to inform conservation practices. Future research should consider both individual and institutional factors that facilitate and constrain adoption.

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“…A place may hold diverse meanings for different individuals, such as a recreationist at a site versus an adjacent property owner. For example, in the Midwest, Mullendore et al [31] argue that farmers' sense of place values have not been captured in most sense of place studies. They explain that most sense of place studies have targeted recreational use in parks, wilderness, or other natural areas [32] found that attitudes toward water-level and restoration management interventions depended on the stakeholders' place meanings for the area.…”

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Sense of Place and Water Quality: Applying Sense of Place Metrics to Better Understand Community Impacts of Changes in Water Quality

Mulvaney¹,

Merrill²,

Mazzotta³

2020

Water Quality - Science, Assessments and Policy

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Understanding people's values for coastal and freshwater areas is critical for identifying concerns and motivating people to protect water resources and for informing management decisions. Sense of place is a social indicator that captures the relative value that different people hold for specific places. Its use in water quality assessments remains extremely limited but based on lessons from other environmental fields, sense of place offers promise as a tool for measuring an important aspect of the social value of water quality. In this chapter, we propose a quantitative sense-of-place scale and additional qualitative questions which can be used in conjunction with biophysical water quality data and water quality perceptions data to better understand how people's values change with improvements or degradations in water quality.

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U.S. farmers’ sense of place and its relation to conservation behavior

Cited by 48 publications

References 36 publications

Evaluating determinants of rural Villagers’ engagement in conservation and waste management behaviors based on integrated conceptual framework of Pro-environmental behavior

Evaluating determinants of rural Villagers’ engagement in conservation and waste management behaviors based on integrated conceptual framework of Pro-environmental behavior

Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature

Sense of Place and Water Quality: Applying Sense of Place Metrics to Better Understand Community Impacts of Changes in Water Quality

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