Designing Behaviourally Informed Policies for Land Stewardship: A New Paradigm
This paper argues the case for a new approach to the stewardship of land resources that uses behavioural science theory to support the design and application of policies that facilitate changes in behaviour by those who develop policy and the farmers who implement it. Current approaches have: focuse...
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ftunivnewengland:oai:rune.une.edu.au:1959.11/17815 2023-08-27T04:10:11+02:00 Designing Behaviourally Informed Policies for Land Stewardship: A New Paradigm Hine, Don W School of Psychology orcid:0000-0002-3905-7026 Crofts, Roger Psychology Becker, John 2015 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17815 en eng University of Technology Sydney ePress (UTS ePress) https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17815 une:18026 Gold https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijrlp/article/view/4365 Social and Community Psychology Environmental and Natural Resources Law Journal Article 2015 ftunivnewengland 2023-08-10T18:44:33Z This paper argues the case for a new approach to the stewardship of land resources that uses behavioural science theory to support the design and application of policies that facilitate changes in behaviour by those who develop policy and the farmers who implement it. Current approaches have: focused on legally-based expert system; and have been devised by national and international bureaucracies with little or no knowledge of how land owners and managers are motivated, and how they think, behave and operate as stewards of their natural resources. A review of current approaches from the social scientific literature is provided, with a particular focus on principles from social psychology. This is followed by an examination of how these principles can be applied to influence behaviour related to land restoration and soil conservation. Examples of the problems with traditional approaches and the evolution of new approaches with full engagement of farmers as the delivery agents are provided from within the European Union, Iceland and Scotland. In the light of these examples and emerging thinking in other parts of the world, the paper sets out the basis for a new approach based on behavioural science theory and application, reinforcing the arguments already made in the literature for a social license for farming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Research UNE - University of New England at Armidale, NSW Australia |
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This paper argues the case for a new approach to the stewardship of land resources that uses behavioural science theory to support the design and application of policies that facilitate changes in behaviour by those who develop policy and the farmers who implement it. Current approaches have: focused on legally-based expert system; and have been devised by national and international bureaucracies with little or no knowledge of how land owners and managers are motivated, and how they think, behave and operate as stewards of their natural resources. A review of current approaches from the social scientific literature is provided, with a particular focus on principles from social psychology. This is followed by an examination of how these principles can be applied to influence behaviour related to land restoration and soil conservation. Examples of the problems with traditional approaches and the evolution of new approaches with full engagement of farmers as the delivery agents are provided from within the European Union, Iceland and Scotland. In the light of these examples and emerging thinking in other parts of the world, the paper sets out the basis for a new approach based on behavioural science theory and application, reinforcing the arguments already made in the literature for a social license for farming. |
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Designing Behaviourally Informed Policies for Land Stewardship: A New Paradigm |
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