Arbeitspapier
Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management: The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions
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-preferences model. 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 209
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
- Thema
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commercial cattle farming
Namibia
norm-activation theory
personal norms
dual-preferences model
semi-arid rangelands
sustainability
Weidewirtschaft
Rinderhaltung
Landwirte
Umweltbewusstsein
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Landwirtschaftliche Bodennutzung
Bodenbelastung
Namibia
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Olbrich, Roland
Quaas, Martin F.
Baumgärtner, Stefan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (wo)
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Lüneburg
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Olbrich, Roland
- Quaas, Martin F.
- Baumgärtner, Stefan
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Entstanden
- 2011
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