Olivia Lukacic, P. Catanzaro, Emily S. Huff, K. Hamunen
{"title":"Women on the Land: Perspectives on Women-Owned Forest Land in the Eastern United States","authors":"Olivia Lukacic, P. Catanzaro, Emily S. Huff, K. Hamunen","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2022.2161682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2161682","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Women represent a growing segment of the family forest owner population in the United States. This article seeks to identify how women in the eastern U.S. navigate forest land management. Inductive coding led to the development of five prominent themes: connections to the land, stewardship ethic, personal challenges, connections to others, and educational/programmatic challenges. Our research suggests that women have a strong connection to their land with diverse interests and objectives. Their stories challenge the current definition of engaged landowners and represent a need for programs and policies that support passive and more holistic active stewardship options.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"288 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49402273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. R. Cope, Kayci A Muirbrook, Paige N. Park, S. Sanders, Carol Ward, Rachel M. Sumsion
{"title":"Understanding Environmentalism: The Interplay between Politics and Religion on Environmental Attitudes from Rural Utah","authors":"M. R. Cope, Kayci A Muirbrook, Paige N. Park, S. Sanders, Carol Ward, Rachel M. Sumsion","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2169423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2169423","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous research found that socio-demographic characteristics are significant predictors of environmental behaviors and attitudes, including political affiliation and religious identity. However, the consistency of religious identity and political affiliation as predictors of environmental attitudes and behaviors is still contested. This study investigates whether religious affiliation is a significant determinant of environmental attitudes (EA) or whether political affiliation is a better predictor. Sampling 25 rural towns in Utah, USA. with homogenous religious identities and political affiliations, we replicate past regression analyses from similar studies. We conclude that although our results are generally consistent with the literature, unlike what the replicated studies suggest, religious identity is not a consistent predictor of EA. Rather, political affiliation is a stronger predictor. Our research, therefore, clarifies socio-demographic characteristics that serve as predictors of EA and provides a nuanced understanding of rural EA.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"405 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41565425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Normative Influences on Intentions to Reduce Irrigated Landscape Area through a Compliance and Belonging Lens","authors":"L. Warner, A. Lamm, Kristina E. Gibson","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2167140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2167140","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study sought to disentangle distinctions of social norms that can be used to address residential overuse of irrigation water. Nuances of social norms pertaining to eliminating 1/3 of a household’s irrigated landscape were examined by comparing generalized, expectancy-based, and value-expectancy beliefs with electronic survey data from 315 adults in Florida, USA. Spearman’s correlations were used to evaluate relationships and ordinal regression was used to examine the predictive capacity of generalized, expectancy-based, and value-expectancy models. The generalized model fit best, with generalized descriptive norms as the more powerful predictor, implying descriptive norms should be used as a route to increase behavioral engagement. People working on water issues are encouraged to use social norms strategies to promote awareness of others’ reduction of irrigated landscape to increase participation in water conservation. Findings revealed an important challenge in that generalized descriptive norms are specific to an individual’s important persons rather than named referent groups.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"384 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45731000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thi Thanh Phuong Duong, L. A. Lobry de Bruyn, P. Kristiansen, G. Marshall, Janelle Wilkes
{"title":"Lessons for Protected Area Management in Vietnam: Outcomes of Local Ethnic Minority Participation in Forest Protection of Cat Tien National Park","authors":"Thi Thanh Phuong Duong, L. A. Lobry de Bruyn, P. Kristiansen, G. Marshall, Janelle Wilkes","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2166181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2166181","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While protected areas are a measure for forest conservation, they pose a number of key challenges to local people’s livelihoods. One solution to the tension between conservation objectives and livelihoods in protected areas is involving local people in forest protection activities. The research examined the performance of one initiative, involving Forest Protection Teams (FPTs), on the livelihoods of local people and participating members, and on forest conservation. The research revealed that FPT activities had some benefits for team members but limited impact on local livelihoods. Additionally, most households stated that there was no detectable change in forest condition because of team members’ activities in forest protection. For FPT members to take greater ownership of forest protection outcomes and communication of these outcomes, the program needs to be designed and implemented in a more participatory manner.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"366 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44256114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Tease, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Rita Yembilah, A. Tsiboe-Darko, Priscilla Mensah, Brandon Adams
{"title":"“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana","authors":"F. Tease, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, Rita Yembilah, A. Tsiboe-Darko, Priscilla Mensah, Brandon Adams","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2022.2161028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2161028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 2021, Ghana was Africa’s largest gold producer and sixth largest producer worldwide. However, mining wrecks tremendous environmental havoc and poses significant human health risks. Efforts to mitigate these impacts have focused exclusively on regularizing mining, with little recognition of the crucial role farmers play in mining, particularly as agents that lease their land for the same. Ghana’s new tree tenure policy allows cocoa farmers to acquire individualized, allodial rights to commercial timber species on their farms, which permits famers to capture forestry sector payments. We examine farmers’ impressions of tree tenure reform as a potential counter to mining in eleven communities in Western and Western North regions, using focus group and individual interviews. While the concept of tree tenure is enthusiastically embraced, practical difficulties encountered by smallholders attempting to navigate the bureaucratic registration system limit the sway of tree registration and ownership as a means of limiting mining proliferation.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"269 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49189623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Homesick for Something That’s Never Going to Be Again”: An Exploratory Study of the Sociological Implications of Solastalgia","authors":"A. R. Brown","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2023.2165205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2165205","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Research on sense of place suggests that people’s understandings of themselves and others is closely tied to the feelings they have about the place where they reside. Solastalgia expands on this sociological concept by considering the impacts on the various benefits derived from place when a landscape is changed through acute or chronic environmental disruptions. As such, climate-related disasters affect both tangible and intangible goods. Using 24 qualitative interviews with residents of Paradise, California several months after a wildfire destroyed their town, this exploratory study examines three ways in which the solastalgia experience is socially constructed. This occurs through disruptions to coping resources found in the natural world, embeddedness of history in place, and the experience of “homesickness” for a changed landscape.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"349 - 365"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46650189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Maine Resident Perceptions on Community Resilience, Conservation, and Natural Resource Industries","authors":"Gabrielle Sherman, A. Daigneault","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2022.2150798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2150798","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Maine faces a period of socio-economic transition as it contends with a shift in natural resource utilization. From the declining contribution of natural resource industries to the rise of conservation lands, the state’s relationship with its natural capital is increasingly influenced by a multitude of factors. Meanwhile, Maine’s rural communities may struggle to adapt. In order to gain better insight, a statewide web-based survey was used to collect data on perceptions of community resilience, natural resource industries, and conservation. Analysis revealed divergences largely based on demographic characteristics. Politically conservative respondents expressed a belief that their communities are resilient but are concerned that conservation lands reduce economic productivity. Rural residents tend to believe natural resource industries remain important but do not perceive their communities to be economically diverse. Respondents in urban areas instead perceive a lack of social cohesion and trustworthiness of local elected leadership. Communities across the state contend with a diverse array of vulnerabilities for which no single resilience building solution will suffice.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"211 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44167728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insights for the Drop-off/Pick-up Method to Improve Data Collection","authors":"Anne N. Junod, Jeffrey B. Jacquet","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2022.2146821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2146821","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mail and telephone surveys are becoming increasingly expensive and unreliable, while internet-based surveys raise issues of geographic representation and other matters of authenticity. The Drop-Off/Pick-Up (DOPU) method is an alternative which can elicit higher response rates and reduce non-response bias issues. DOPU involves dropping off and picking up surveys in person and can yield high participation because personal interactions have been shown to stimulate norms of reciprocity. We share insights from our 2019 DOPU study of hydrocarbon energy export impacts in four communities that have experienced oil-by-rail transportation and related disasters, with surveys collected in two metropolitan and two rural communities in the U.S. Midwest and Pacific Northwest. We organize and present a suite of novel and established recommendations suitable for both scholarly and community-based researchers and practitioners to strengthen community support, improve fieldwork efficiency, increase response rates, and reduce costs in future DOPU studies.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"76 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46816792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariana de Oliveira Estevo, A. B. Junqueira, V. Reyes‐García, J. Campos‐Silva
{"title":"Understanding Multidirectional Climate Change Impacts on Local Livelihoods through the Lens of Local Ecological Knowledge: A Study in Western Amazonia","authors":"Mariana de Oliveira Estevo, A. B. Junqueira, V. Reyes‐García, J. Campos‐Silva","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2022.2153294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2153294","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Climate-related changes taking place in Amazonia substantially impact social-ecological systems, affecting local livelihoods strongly reliant on natural resources. Here, we investigate climate change impacts on different livelihood activities in western Amazonia, through the lens of local ecological knowledge. We conducted semi-structured interviews and surveys with ∼400 residents from 24 communities spread across a ∼600 km stretch of the Juruá River. Residents reported a vast set of changes, many referring to changes in the atmospheric system (e.g., more summer rainfall), but with cascading effects in physical, biological, and human systems. Different livelihood activities are impacted with different intensities and by different climate-related changes. While most changes have negative impacts, residents recognize some positive impacts of climate-driven changes (e.g., large river floods positively impact fishing). Beyond demonstrating the manifold and multidirectional climate change impacts, our findings highlight the contribution of local ecological knowledge in identifying vulnerable livelihood activities and biodiversity-based value chains.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"232 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49011006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sherman Farhad, B. McGlynn, J. Baird, R. Plummer, J. Blythe
{"title":"Exploring the Potential of Internal Information Flows in Large Organizations as Leverage Points for Environmental Stewardship","authors":"Sherman Farhad, B. McGlynn, J. Baird, R. Plummer, J. Blythe","doi":"10.1080/08941920.2022.2129534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2129534","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Large organizations play a critical role in environmental stewardship. The concept of leverage points offers one promising avenue of inquiry to enhance the effectiveness of large organizations in advancing environmental stewardship. Here, we focus on the flow of information within a large environmental organization as a deep leverage point for system change. We conducted a social network analysis of an organization with an environmental stewardship mandate. Results show that the organization has a dense communication network that could be effectively leveraged for environmental stewardship communication, especially by influential individuals and departments. As practical implications, we recommend that an environmental stewardship-focused communication approach, based on four strategies (segmentation, induction, two-way communication, and individual strategies) be enacted by the organization to use this leverage point to enhance the diffusion of environmental stewardship. Directions for future research include a deep study of the plurality of understandings of environmental stewardship within the organization.","PeriodicalId":48223,"journal":{"name":"Society & Natural Resources","volume":"36 1","pages":"20 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43058630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}