Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management – The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2011. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 209).
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T1 - Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management – The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions
AU - Olbrich, Roland
AU - Quaas, Martin F.
AU - Baumgärtner, Stefan
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands of Namibia, a system that is subject to extensive degradation. We characterize farmers’ personal norms, study their determinants, and analyze their impact on actual management based on the dual-preferencesmodel. We find personal norms of sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers, but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We find no evidence for a significant impact of personal norms on actual management behavior, which may be due to farmers not feeling capable for averting adverse long-term consequences of their management. This may contribute to the observed degradation of rangelands in Namibia.
AB - We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands of Namibia, a system that is subject to extensive degradation. We characterize farmers’ personal norms, study their determinants, and analyze their impact on actual management based on the dual-preferencesmodel. We find personal norms of sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers, but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We find no evidence for a significant impact of personal norms on actual management behavior, which may be due to farmers not feeling capable for averting adverse long-term consequences of their management. This may contribute to the observed degradation of rangelands in Namibia.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - commercial cattle farming
KW - Namibia
KW - norm-activation theory
KW - personal norms
KW - dual-preferences model
KW - semi-arid rangelands
KW - sustainability
KW - commerical cattle farming
KW - Namibia
KW - norm-activation theory
KW - personal norms
KW - dual-preferences model
KW - semi-arid rangelands
KW - sustainability
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - commercial cattle farming
KW - Namibia
KW - norm-activation theory
KW - personal norms
KW - dual-preferences model
KW - semi-arid rangelands
KW - sustainability
KW - Economics
KW - commercial cattle farming
KW - Namibia
KW - norm-activation theory
KW - personal norms
KW - dual-preferences model
KW - semi-arid rangelands
KW - sustainability
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics
BT - Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management – The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -