Transformation towards the sustainable management of peatlands: A characterisation of farmers in the Teufelsmoor, Germany
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in: People and Nature, 2024.
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T1 - Transformation towards the sustainable management of peatlands
T2 - A characterisation of farmers in the Teufelsmoor, Germany
AU - Hünnebeck-Wells, Amelie
AU - Loos, Jacqueline
AU - Abel, Susanne
AU - Nordt, Anke
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). People and Nature published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Peatland restoration through rewetting is a pivotal solution to counteract the climate crisis. Since many peatlands with the potential for rewetting are farmland, rewetting can only be achieved in collaboration with peatland farmers. However, the discord between the need to rewet peatlands and the implementation of rewetting measures calls for a transformation in how peatlands are managed. To explore their willingness towards rewetting, interviews were conducted with 19 peatland farmers in the Teufelsmoor, Germany. Here, we categorised the perceptions, challenges and opportunities of rewetting as operational impediments, knowledge and awareness of peatlands and rewetting, collaboration between stakeholders and peatland perceptions and sense of identity. Based on these results, we characterised peatland farmers as Pioneers, Sceptics, Pragmatists and Hobby Farmers. This characterisation showcases peatland farmers as a group with differing perceptions towards rewetting and highlights the need for different approaches to foster a transformation to agriculture that works with peatlands and peatland farmers to ameliorate the climate crisis. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
AB - Peatland restoration through rewetting is a pivotal solution to counteract the climate crisis. Since many peatlands with the potential for rewetting are farmland, rewetting can only be achieved in collaboration with peatland farmers. However, the discord between the need to rewet peatlands and the implementation of rewetting measures calls for a transformation in how peatlands are managed. To explore their willingness towards rewetting, interviews were conducted with 19 peatland farmers in the Teufelsmoor, Germany. Here, we categorised the perceptions, challenges and opportunities of rewetting as operational impediments, knowledge and awareness of peatlands and rewetting, collaboration between stakeholders and peatland perceptions and sense of identity. Based on these results, we characterised peatland farmers as Pioneers, Sceptics, Pragmatists and Hobby Farmers. This characterisation showcases peatland farmers as a group with differing perceptions towards rewetting and highlights the need for different approaches to foster a transformation to agriculture that works with peatlands and peatland farmers to ameliorate the climate crisis. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
KW - climate change mitigation
KW - peatland
KW - perceptions
KW - rewetting
KW - social-ecological systems
KW - transformation
KW - Biology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212499173&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/pan3.10701
DO - 10.1002/pan3.10701
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85212499173
JO - People and Nature
JF - People and Nature
SN - 2575-8314
ER -