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Renewed attention has been granted to the link between environmental values and management directives or policies. This article argues that standard survey techniques can mask the situational richness that connects a stated value or objective to a related management action. Consequently, new analytic techniques are needed—techniques that more closely follow the reasoning that connects values with actions in specific contexts. We describe the use of one such experimental technique, a “decision pathways” questionnaire, and present the results of its application during a survey of vegetation‐management alternatives in Ontario.

ISSN:0894-1920    

DOI:10.1080/08941929809381108

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

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Because wildlife in the United States is publicly owned, management actions and policies depend on public acceptance. This article uses a normative approach to describe and evaluate what the public believes are acceptable management actions toward three different wildlife species involved in human‐wildlife interactions. The results illustrate the extent to which normative beliefs about wildlife management actions are influenced by situational specifics and wildlife value orientations. Across different species and situations, individuals with protectionist wildlife values were less willing than those with pro‐use wildlife values to accept destroying an animal. The results point to circumstances that are likely to generate intense conflict over particular management policies and allow more confident generalization about how publics will respond to different management actions. Additional research is needed to identify the situational specifics and human values that best explain and predict normative beliefs across a wide variety of species and situations.

ISSN:0894-1920    

DOI:10.1080/08941929809381109

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

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In the Pacuare River Watershed in Costa Rica, farm size, ownership, and production data were collected and spatially referenced through global positioning surveys and farmer assessments of property boundaries in relation to cadastral maps and air photographs. Using geographic information system (GIS) based spatial overlays, these data were integrated with previously collected land use and land degradation data. The resulting integrated database allowed for land use and degradation data to be classified by alternative farm sizes in order to assess the individual needs and relative priority of a soil conservation program for different farms. In spite of limited funding and many technical and data constraints in Central America, such GIS‐based methodologies linking farms and people to biophysically based land use and degradation are seen as a feasible and cost‐effective approach to plan and implement soil conservation and other types of natural resource management projects.

ISSN:0894-1920    

DOI:10.1080/08941929809381110

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

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During the 1990s federal land and resource management agencies have experienced increasingly contentious relationships with many rural‐area publics. Controversies over agency efforts to manage traditional resource uses such as grazing and mining and to protect environmentally sensitive areas have provided an impetus for organized efforts to reduce federal control over public lands resources. The emergence of the “Wise Use,” “country supremacy,” and “home rule” movements reflects a broadening social conflict over public lands management and growing demand for increased local control over resource management decisions. However, at present little information is available regarding the extent to which such concerns are widely shared among the West's rural‐area residents, or how such views may vary across community contexts and types of residents. This article attempts to answer such questions through an analysis of survey data drawn from six rural‐area communities in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Representative samples of adult residents were presented with questions pertaining to their views about public land management and their levels of trust in various resource management agencies. Community context factors as well as selected respondent sociodemographic characteristics are examined as variables that may help to explain variation in perceptions of public lands resource management.

ISSN:0894-1920    

DOI:10.1080/08941929809381111

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

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Bernard, Ted, and Jora Young, with foreword by Wes Jackson.The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1997. 233 pp. $16.95 (paper). ISBN 0–86571–355–3.

ISSN:0894-1920    

DOI:10.1080/08941929809381112

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0894-1920    

DOI:10.1080/08941929809381107

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor