کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5048782 1476344 2017 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Payments for Pioneers? Revisiting the Role of External Rewards for Sustainable Innovation under Heterogeneous Motivations
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
پرداخت برای پیشگامان؟ بازخوانی نقش پاداش های خارجی برای نوآوری پایدار تحت انگیزه های نامتقارن
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Individuals have diverse, complex motivations to adopt pro-environmental behaviour.
- Acknowledging this heterogeneity is key for cost-effective conservation policies.
- We uncover 3 motivational perspectives for silvopasture adoption in a tropical forest context.
- Payments may not be the most appropriate incentives for pioneers regarding adoption.

Acknowledging the diversity of preferences, goals and motivations of individuals is key to promote the effectiveness of incentive-based conservation interventions. This paper analyses the heterogeneity of motivations to adopt silvopastoral practices, a social-ecological innovation for soil conservation and carbon emission reduction. We use Q methodology to identify smallholders' views with regard to these practices in a community in the forest frontier in Chiapas (Mexico). The analysis uncovers three main perspectives: self-sufficient pioneers, environmentally-conscious followers and payment-dependent conservatives. We discuss these perspectives around three topics: smallholders' predisposition to adopt silvopastoral practices, their views about needing external payments to sustain their livelihood and the diffusion of innovative sustainable practices. We relate these perspectives with livelihood characteristics and with observed adoption levels under a pilot programme to promote silvopasture. Our findings suggest that incentives other than payments may be more appropriate for those more likely to adopt, and that payments could encourage rent-seeking strategies and not necessarily promote permanent behavioural change. We suggest ways for designing more effective and adaptive environmental conservation programmes to foster adoption and continuation of social-ecological innovations.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ecological Economics - Volume 135, May 2017, Pages 234-245
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