Personal Moral Norms and Attitudes Toward Endangered Species Policies on Private Land

Raymond, Leigh; Schneider, Laura

doi:10.4103/0972-4923.132115

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“…In their study of landowners in rural southern Ontario, Olive and McCune () found that those interviewed held a strong opinion that preventing extinction was a moral responsibility. This is similar to results in a study by Raymond and Schneider () which suggested that moral arguments to prevent extinction are widely supported and are influential predictors of support for policies to protect species at risk on private land. Similar to that study, PEI rural private landowners also supported an ecological justification for protecting species at risk.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Personal and moral norms to prevent extinction have also been found to play an important role in shaping landowners’ attitudes and behaviour towards endangered species (Raymond and Schneider ). A study in Ontario found that rural landowners perceived a moral responsibility to prevent extinction of other species, although they had little knowledge of endangered species in their area or programs available to help landowners steward them (Olive and McCune ).…”

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Exploring rural landowners’ willingness to protect species at risk in Prince Edward Island

Brown

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Key Messages On private land the Species at Risk Act in Canada relies on voluntary stewardship as the preferred approach to protecting species at risk. Private rural landowners in Prince Edward Island have some knowledge of species at risk and feel that they should be protected, but little knowledge of the federal Act. Study participants say they are willing to change their land management practices in order to protect species at risk, and feel that government should provide education about land management practices to protect species and their habitat.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

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confidence: 99%

Exploring rural landowners’ willingness to protect species at risk in Prince Edward Island

Brown

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…This experience of a personal obligation to conservation could be consistent with a conservative political leaning and with a high score on traditionalism, if a landowner can achieve conservation without participation in a governmental program (Raymond and Schneider 2014). This finding is consistent with the results by Olive and Raymond (2010) who found that politically conservative opinions about property rights do not have to be in opposition to positive norms regarding species-at-risk protection, and with Blankenau et al (2007) who found strong support for environmental conservation among political conservatives as well as liberal party followers in the USA.…”

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“…However, different from our study in which the contributions of the different elements are compared, Bieling (2004) combined all concepts/models into one new model and did not assess the contributions of the individual parts. Although social-psychological concepts such as values, norms, and attitudes have been utilized in other studies (e.g., Moon et al 2012, Raymond and Schneider 2014, Kusmanoff et al 2016), they have not been systematically applied to the same data set and their individual contributions investigated in this way. The results of our study illustrate the complex relationships among basic values, worldviews, norms, attitudes, and behaviors emphasizing the importance of proenvironmental worldviews, i.e., NEP, and of formal education for increasing the likelihood of enrolment in a government-sponsored PLC program.…”

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Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

Drescher¹,

Warriner²,

Farmer³

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ABSTRACT. Preservation of biodiversity and continued provision of ecosystem services increasingly relies on environmental conservation on private lands. Despite a multitude of past studies, our knowledge of the motives, opportunities, and challenges of private land conservation, especially on nonworking lands, where financial incentives are less relevant, remains incomplete. A key reason is that a variety of theoretical approaches, resulting in diverging study results, have been used to investigate private land conservation. To help remedy this problem, the current study rigorously examined several established social-psychological determinants of proenvironmental behaviors and developed a comprehensive model, which merged elements from previous studies, to investigate landowner participation in a government-sponsored private land conservation program for nonworking lands. The results are based on analysis of a mailed survey of 800 program-eligible landowners. Contrasting program participants with nonparticipants, we elicited information such as about values, worldviews, socio-demographic characteristics, and property attributes that led landowners to participate in this conservation program. The results of our study illustrate the complex relationships among values, worldviews, norms, attitudes, and behaviors emphasizing the importance of proenvironmental worldviews and of formal education for increasing the likelihood of enrollment in this government-sponsored private land conservation program. Against expectation, neither personal norms, household income, political leaning, nor the size of the eligible property area were found to be important in directly determining the decision to enroll in this conservation program. However, an association of political leaning with stated personal obligation for private land conservation was found. Our results highlight the relationship between formal education and achievement of private land conservation goals through governmental programs for nonworking lands; they also suggest opportunities for supporting conservationminded landowners who are disinclined to engage in governmental programs. To our knowledge, the current study is the first to use a comprehensive model to systematically compare alternative concepts from social psychology such as values, worldviews, norms, and attitudes and their relationships with private land conservation.

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“…Some groups view the protection of the planet as a personal responsibility and a moral obligation [ 32 ]. For example, some private landowners in the U.S. feel a moral obligation to prevent the extinction of endangered animals [ 33 ] and many households in Sweden feel a moral obligation to recycle [ 34 ]. Moral norms have received less attention than descriptive and injunctive norms in tests of environmental messaging and may offer a powerful force for promoting environmental actions [ 35 ].…”

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The effectiveness and efficiency of using normative messages to reduce waste: A real world experiment

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Although they are only home to 16% of the global human population, high-income countries produce approximately one third of the world’s waste, the majority of which goes to landfills. To reduce pressure on landfills and natural systems, environmental messaging should focus on reducing consumption. Messages that signal social norms have the potential to influence people to reduce their consumption of comfort goods, such as straws, which are not a necessity for most people. We conducted a randomized field-experiment at a marine park in Portugal to test whether different normative messages reduced visitors’ paper straw use when compared to non-normative messages. We found that a message framed around a positive injunctive norm significantly reduced straw use compared to a non-normative message. We estimated that using the message at 17 park concession stands could keep over 27500 straws out of landfills annually and save the park money after two years.

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Personal Moral Norms and Attitudes Toward Endangered Species Policies on Private Land

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Exploring rural landowners’ willingness to protect species at risk in Prince Edward Island

Exploring rural landowners’ willingness to protect species at risk in Prince Edward Island

Private landowners and environmental conservation: a case study of social-psychological determinants of conservation program participation in Ontario

The effectiveness and efficiency of using normative messages to reduce waste: A real world experiment

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