The Role of Farmers' Understanding of Nature in Shaping their Uptake of Nature Protection Measures

Stupak, Nataliya; Sanders, Jürn; Heinrich, Barbara

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.022

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“…The possible explanation was that subsidies and rewards for grassland ecological protection had become the second most important income source for some herdsmen’s families [ 14 ], and herdsmen’s perception of economic benefits would greatly affect their policy satisfaction. In addition, the herdsmen, due to the generally low education level, did not have a deep understanding of the environmental significance of ecological animal husbandry [ 49 ], which resulted in their relatively deficient perception ability of environmental value. Gu et al [ 9 ] pointed out that for the vast majority of herdsmen, economic benefits directly affected their living standard, while the community culture of herdsmen also affected their evaluation of life to a large extent [ 12 , 31 ].…”

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“…With the aggravation of global environmental changes, environmental pollution not only caused huge economic losses to the society, but also had negative impacts on family livelihood. This point had reached a consensus in the research of many scholars [ 24 , 37 , 49 ]. Therefore, it was urgent to formulate effective environmental regulations that could promote the sustainable development of social economy.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effects of Value Perception, Environmental Regulation and Their Interaction on the Improvement of Herdsmen’s Grassland Ecological Policy Satisfaction

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Sustainable utilization of grassland resources was an important topic concerned by worldwide countries and regions, and ecological compensation had gradually become the main policy tool for grassland environmental management and ecological protection. This study adopted face-to-face interviews and questionnaires, and multiordered Logit model was then used to explore herdsmen’s satisfaction with Grassland Ecological Conservation Subsidy and Reward Policy (GECSRP) focusing on identifying the key factors behind it. Results showed that herdsmen were not satisfied with GECSRP on the whole, while value perception, environmental regulation and their interaction played a positive role on improving the satisfaction. Specifically, economic benefits had the strongest promotion impacts, followed by social identity in the two-dimensional variables of value perception. The guiding regulation had stronger promoting impacts, followed by the incentive regulation in the two-dimensional variables of environmental regulation. Interestingly, incentive regulation played an enhanced interaction on the influence of economic benefits and environmental value on herdsmen’s satisfaction, yet the interaction between guiding regulation and environmental value was not significant. These indicated that herdsmen paid more attention to substantial subsidies and rewards in the process of ecological livestock husbandry, and environmental regulation formulated by government had a phenomenon of “relative system failure”. Thus, the grassland ecological environment policy should be further adjusted and improved to promote the economic development of pastoral areas.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Effects of Value Perception, Environmental Regulation and Their Interaction on the Improvement of Herdsmen’s Grassland Ecological Policy Satisfaction

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“…It also happens that farmers choose instruments that do not require too much financial expenditure, bring profit but are not always valuable from the point of view of protecting HNV [69]. For the AECM instruments to be effective, it is, therefore, necessary to consider the expectations of farmers (inc. economic ones) and directions of activities to protect the biodiversity of the areas constituting farms [70]. The leading role here is played by the contextualisation of pro-ecological undertakings.…”

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Mapping of EU Support for High Nature Value Farmlands, from the Perspective of Natural and Landscape Regions

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Decoupling economic growth from the exploitation of natural resources, protecting vulnerable ecosystems, restoring habitats and species, and supporting areas used for organic farming are, along with achieving climate neutrality, key tenets of the European Green Deal (EGD)—the EU’s new sustainable economic strategy. One direction of activities to implement several of these goals simultaneously is the provision of financial support for agricultural activities aimed at protecting valuable plant and animal habitats and species. This study aims to present research results that include an analysis of the spatial diversification of EU support for nature value habitats in Poland against the background of physico-geographical regions. To date, no such studies have been conducted; instead, analyses of the spatial differentiation in how selected forms of EU funding are taken up in Poland and other European countries have mainly referred to regional or local territorial divisions, and not to regions distinguished based on natural environmental features. Payments from Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funds to support farms using nature value habitats were selected for the analysis. The analysis employed data from the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture (ARMA), as a disburser of EU funds for agriculture in Poland; the data related to two packages (No. 4 and 5) of Agri-Environment-Climate Measures (AECM), which constitute one of the measures of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014–2020. The spatial and statistical analyses not only supported a general description of EU support for the protection of nature value habitats in Poland but also allowed a detailed evaluation of the distribution and areal coverage of nature value habitats subsidised by RDP funds to be presented, and a comprehensive assessment of the scale of support for the natural habitats covered by the programme.

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“…Thus, the distinction between AES targeting biodiversity in general and ecosystem services to agriculture might not only foster the development of more effective AES, but also the transformation of food production more generally (see last sections). This tandem approach would need a stronger involvement and empowerment of key stakeholders, including farmers, farming associations, extension services and other actors, and in general an enhanced governance of AES (Stupak et al 2019).…”

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Biologia Futura: landscape perspectives on farmland biodiversity conservation

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European nature conservation has a strong focus on farmland harbouring threatened species that mainly co-occur with traditional agriculture shaped way before the green revolution. Increased land-use intensity in agriculture has caused an alarming decline in farmland biodiversity during the last century. How can a landscape perspective contribute to fostering our understanding on causes and consequences of farmland biodiversity decline and improving the effectiveness of conservation measures? To answer these questions, we discuss the importance of landscape compositional and configurational heterogeneity, understanding ecological mechanisms determining how landscape structure affects farmland biodiversity and considering the interplay of farmland biodiversity and ecosystem service conservation.

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The Role of Farmers' Understanding of Nature in Shaping their Uptake of Nature Protection Measures

Cited by 22 publications

References 42 publications

Effects of Value Perception, Environmental Regulation and Their Interaction on the Improvement of Herdsmen’s Grassland Ecological Policy Satisfaction

Effects of Value Perception, Environmental Regulation and Their Interaction on the Improvement of Herdsmen’s Grassland Ecological Policy Satisfaction

Mapping of EU Support for High Nature Value Farmlands, from the Perspective of Natural and Landscape Regions

Biologia Futura: landscape perspectives on farmland biodiversity conservation

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