Farmers' pro-environmental behavior under drought: Application of protection motivation theory

Keshavarz, Marzieh; Karami, Ezatollah

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.11.010

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“…Other factors must be involved to change people's behaviors. This finding contradicts the results of an investigation conducted by Keshavarz and Karami [40], who found that perceived response efficacy highly affected farmers' engagement in pro-environmental behaviors during a drought. This implies that different types of pro-environmental behaviors might be explained differently by different attributes of PMT.…”

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“…This finding is related to results from previous studies indicating a relationship between individual perceived environmental risks and pro-environmental behavior [50,55,56], such as hybrid vehicle ownership [56], electric vehicle adoption [50], and pro-environmental in a drought (e.g., biodiversity conservation and water resource protection) [40]. In the present study, reuse and recycle behaviors are simple, well-known measures that could be practiced in general.…”

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“…Marquit [39] investigated how residents' perception of air pollution problems and threats to human health affected their engagement in pro-environmental behaviors, and the results showed that people in general tend to be involved in environmental behaviors that require minimal physical effort to carry out (e.g., driving fewer miles and avoiding idling) more than those requiring greater physical effort (e.g., riding a bicycle and walking). Keshavarz and Karami [40] also applied PMT to explore farmers' pro-environmental behaviors during a drought, and they found that a number of variables related to PMT (e.g., farmers' response efficacy, perceived severity, response costs, perceived vulnerability, and self-efficacy) as well as income and the social environment significantly predicted farmers' engagement in biodiversity conservation, environmental pollution reduction, soil and water resource protection, and the reduction of pressure on land and energy resources. Although a number of researchers have already investigated the application of PMT to explore pro-environmental behaviors, this study focuses particularly on SWMBs, which comprise several types of waste management behaviors; these behaviors require different levels and types of effort, such as financial, physical, and mental effort.…”

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Application of Protection Motivation Theory to Investigate Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors

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Abstract:The aim of this study is to explain individuals' engagement in sustainable waste management behaviors (SWMBs) based on the application of protection motivation theory (PMT). SWMBs include waste avoidance, green purchasing, reuse and recycle, and waste disposal behaviors. Considering the amount of solid waste generation per capita per day during the past 10 years, the statistical records from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) illustrate the increasing trend of solid waste generation from 1.18 kg per capita per day in 2005 to 1.28 kg per capita per day 2015. Many scholars have asserted that human beings should alter their behaviors to successfully reduce their environmental impact. Several environmental problems (e.g., air pollution, water pollution, and odors) caused by waste disposal are consequences of human behaviors; therefore, citizens' engagement in SWMBs should be widely promoted. This study applies PMT to explore how individuals' SWMBs are influenced by their perceived threats caused by environmental contamination from waste disposal and their perceived coping capability. The Bangkok metropolitan area was selected as a case study because it has faced serious waste management problems, caused by increasing amounts of solid waste over the last ten years. Questionnaire surveys were administered to 193 public and private office workers residing in the city of Bangkok. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to justify the effects of individual threat appraisal and coping appraisal on SWMB engagement. The results illustrated that respondents' self-efficacy could explain all types of SWMBs. On the contrary, response efficacy was not a significant predictor of all behaviors. People's perceived severity of adverse consequences caused by pollutants could significantly explain their waste disposal and reuse and recycle behaviors, and the perceived probability of being impacted by pollutants could explain only reuse and recycling behaviors. Thus, PMT may be well suited for explaining low-cost and simple SWMBs that require less effort. To promote people's engagement in each type of SWMB, different communication campaigns should be established.

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“…The trend‐line labeled “Rational Adaptation” illustrates the minimum risk level, assuming complete economic—rational adaptation behavior. However, as most drought adaptation decisions are made reactively, such assumptions are unrealistic (Keshavarz & Karami, ; UNCCD, FAO,, & WMO, ; Wilhite, Sivakumar, & Pulwarty, ). Empirical studies have shown that observed adaptation decisions cannot always be explained by economic motivations alone but are influenced by personal, bounded rationality (Haer et al, ; Malawska & Topping, ; Patt & Siebenhüner, ; van Duinen, Filatova, Jager, & van der Veen, ).…”

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Integrating human behavior dynamics into drought risk assessment—A sociohydrologic, agent‐based approach

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Droughts are a persistent and costly hazard impacting human and environmental systems. As climate variability continues to increase and socioeconomic development influences the distribution of wealth and people, drought risk is expected to increase in many parts of the world. The unique characteristics of droughtsnamely their slow onset, large spatiotemporal extent, human-influenced propagation, delayed impacts and teleconnection potential-make it difficult to correctly assess drought impact and calculate risk. Further complicating this calculation is the capacity for humans to make adaptive decisions before, during, and after a drought event, which in turn alters expected impacts. In this sense, droughts are equally a social and hydroclimatic issue. Risk perception is one of the main factors driving adaptation decisions, yet most models neglect how humans view and respond to risk, and in particular how experiences influence decisions through time. In this overview, we describe a framework that extends the traditional risk modeling approach to include the two-way feedback between the transient adaptation decisions and drought exposure, vulnerability and hazard. We discuss how a sociohydrologic, agent-based modeling setup, focused on individual and collective actions, can simulate the adaptive behaviors of different stakeholders to examine how emergent actions might influence projected drought risk. We suggest such an approach can provide a test-bed for understanding adaptive behaviors in an increasingly drought-prone world and could allow for better prioritization of drought adaptation strategies; refined understanding of future scenarios; and a vehicle to drive planning and resilience building. This article is categorized under: Science of Water > Water Extremes Engineering Water > Planning Water Engineering Water > Methods K E Y W O R D S adaptation, agent-based modeling, behavior, drought, risk, sociohydrology

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“…Likewise, it is often highlighted that farmers' environmental behaviors (i.e. land management decisions) depend on their own perceptions of conditions in their environment (Shiferaw & Holden, 1998;Assefa & Hans-Rudolf, 2016;Keshavarz & Karami, 2016). Conversely, SWC intervention plans in the country to date have not considered but often rather ignored such abilities of local farmers' (Snyder et al, 2014;Assefa & Hans-Rudolf, 2016), and take them as mere labor contributors as a result (Bewket & Sterk, 2002;Abebe & Sewnet, 2014;Haregeweyn et al, 2015).…”

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Farmers' Perception about Soil Erosion in Ethiopia

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Soil erosion is a significant problem in the Ethiopian highlands. The objective of this study was to investigate how farmers perceive the severity of soil erosion in the Upper Blue Nile Basin. The study is based on a detailed survey of 300 households and 1,010 plots owned by these households in three watersheds. Descriptive statistics and a partial proportional odds model were applied to analyze factors that affected farmers' perceived soil erosion severity at the plot-level. Results showed that variables such as plot distance from the residence, plot shape and position on hill slopes affected farmers' perceptions of soil erosion severity, as well as the amount of rainfall during the growing season. Farmer interaction with extension service agents also affected farmers' perception of soil erosion severity. Despite their expected importance, education and number of livestock owned had no effect on the farmers' perception of soil erosion. The results indicate that farmers' perceptions generally match empirical and theoretical findings on soil erosion determinants; thus, farmers should be considered as important partners not only to counter soil erosion, but also to obtain local expertise on soil erosion severity and restoration of degraded land.

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Farmers' pro-environmental behavior under drought: Application of protection motivation theory

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Application of Protection Motivation Theory to Investigate Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors

Application of Protection Motivation Theory to Investigate Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors

Integrating human behavior dynamics into drought risk assessment—A sociohydrologic, agent‐based approach

Farmers' Perception about Soil Erosion in Ethiopia

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