Psychosocial drivers of land management behaviour: How threats, norms, and context influence deforestation intentions.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how private landholders make deforestation decisions is of paramount importance for conservation. Behavioural frameworks from the social sciences have a lot to offer researchers and practitioners, yet these insights remain underutilised in describing what drives landholders' deforestation intentions under important political, social, and management contexts. Using survey data of private landholders in Queensland, Australia, we compare the ability of two popular behavioural models to predict future deforestation intentions, and propose a more integrated behavioural model of deforestation intentions. We found that the integrated model outperformed other models, revealing the importance of threat perceptions, attitudes, and social norms for predicting landholders' deforestation

SUBMITTER: Simmons BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8116382 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature