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2. A Participatory Approach to Water Management: Irrigation Advisory Committees in Southern Ontario
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shortt, R. (author), Caldwell, W.J. (author), Ball, J. (author), and Agnew, Paige (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26839
- Notes:
- Paper written for the 57th Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Congress held in Montreal, Quebec in 2004
3. A Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Preferences, and Values into Decision Making in Natural Resources Management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sheil, Douglas (author), Lynam, Timothy (author), De Jong, Wil (author), Kusumanto, Trikurnianti (author), and Evans, Kirsten (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: C27127
- Journal Title:
- Ecology and Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(1): 5
- Notes:
- Published in 2007.
4. A meta-analysis of social marketing campaigns to improve global conservation outcomes
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Green, Kevin M. (author), Crawford, Brian A. (author), Williamson, Katherine A. (author), and DeWan, Amielle A. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10531
- Journal Title:
- Social Marketing Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(1) 69-87
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., The rapidly increasing rate of biodiversity and habitat loss across the globe can be largely attributed to human behaviors. Conservation practitioners have struggled to influence behaviors through traditional awareness-raising efforts and been slow to adopt techniques from the behavioral sciences such as social marketing to change behaviors and improve conservation outcomes. We conducted a meta-analysis of 84 social marketing campaigns that applied the same theory of change for human behavior to disrupt patterns of destructive activities such as illegal hunting and overfishing. Questionnaires of more than 20,000 individuals across 18 countries measured changes in behavioral variables pre- and post-campaigns, including knowledge, attitudes, interpersonal communication, behavior intention, and behavior. For each campaign, we extracted data and validated data for behavioral variables, estimated mean effect sizes for each variable across all campaigns, and used path analysis to measure relationships among variables included in seven different models. On average, all behavioral variables increased significantly (p < .001) from 16.1 to 25.0 percentage points following social marketing campaigns. The full model used a combination of all variables and had the highest explained variation in behavior change (71%). Our results highlight the importance of (a) incorporating behavioral theory and social marketing into traditional conservation programs to address threats to biodiversity across the globe; (b) designing interventions that leverage a combination of community knowledge, attitudes, and communication about a behavior; and (c) facilitating more opportunities for interpersonal communication as a main driver of behavior change. We conclude with potential applications for practitioners interested in behavior change campaigns.
5. A social-ecological resilience perspective for the social sciences of agriculture, food, and natural resources
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pauley, Catlin M. (author), McKim, Aaron J. (author), and Hodbod, Jennifer (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05
- Published:
- United States: American Association for Agricultural Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12239
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education
- Journal Title Details:
- v60 n4
- Notes:
- 17 pages, Scholarship within the social sciences of agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) exists, in part, to inform solutions to complex problems. Increasingly, complex problems are found at the nexus of social and ecological systems; therefore, scholarship within the social sciences of AFNR must mirror this social-ecological characteristic. Existing AFNR social science literature on resilience lacks the required social-ecological perspective, conceptualizing resilience as an individual characteristic. The absence of a social-ecological perspective of resilience fails to holistically address the complexity of AFNR systems and the challenge therein. Therefore, the current manuscript seeks to inform social science scholarship within AFNR by foregrounding social-ecological resilience as a necessary approach to addressing the complexity of challenges found throughout AFNR systems. Included in the discussion is a critical review of individual resilience, an introduction to adaptation and transformation, an outline of social-ecological resilience, an in-depth analysis of the seven principles of social-ecological resilience, and a discussion of social-ecological resilience thinking applied to the seven research priority areas described by the American Association for Agricultural Education. In total, the current manuscript paves the way for additional systems-based research in the AFNR social sciences by introducing critical concepts and approaches related to social-ecological resilience.
6. Against "one way" communication: eleven Alaska tribes are pushing for better environmental consultation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Smith, Anna V. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11961
- Journal Title:
- High Country News
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(10) : 15, 29
- Notes:
- Online from publication., This report describes a petition by 11 Southeast Alaska Native Tribes to create a "Traditional Homelands Conservation Rule." It is a new strategy in tribal nations' ongoing efforts to hold the federal government to its legal responsibility to consult with them on projects that impact them. It includes case examples of past failures to do so.
7. Agricultural technologies, territorialization from below and land-use conflicts in agro-pastoral areas of Northern Benin
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Djohy, Georges (author) and Edja, Honorat (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-12-31
- Published:
- Nigeria: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12754
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14, N.4
- Notes:
- 10 pages, For some years, the Republic of Benin has promoted mechanization and modernization of its agricultural sector as a driver of food security, socio-economic development and sub-regional solidarity. New agricultural technologies such as tractors and pesticides have been introduced into the small scale farming systems and have reached record adoption rates in various agro-ecological zones of the country. However, rural actors’ use of these technologies also leads to new forms of territoriality which make some winners and others losers. This study was carried out in the cotton basin of northern Benin to scrutinize the forms of appropriation of agricultural technologies and the effects on access to productive resources and interactions between farmers and herders who are cultural neighbors. Participatory observation was carried out over ten months in the district of Gogounou where informants who were purposively selected were engaged in 164 individual interviews and 21 focus group discussions recorded by consent, transcribed and thematically analyzed. By analyzing the mechanisms of appropriation of herbicides in rural areas and the related political ecology of land use, the paper argues that herbicides reconfigure tenure systems by inducing new forms of land-tenure insecurity and land-use conflicts between socio-professional groups that depend on the same natural resources for their livelihoods. Community-based discussions can engage stakeholders in exchanges of sustainable production alternatives, just as institutional reforms are needed to better channel the uses of modern agricultural technologies.
8. Assessing the Value of Video Resources in Extension-led Natural Resources Management Continuing Education Programs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sagor, Eli (author), Mindmuller-Campione, Marcella (author), and Rodman, Madison (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-05
- Published:
- United States: University of Clemson Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12200
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 59 (2)
- Notes:
- 9 pages, Effective delivery of continuing education programs can improve their impact. Using the first of four two-week modules of a professional short course, we tested outcomes of a flipped classroom approach, comparing professional foresters’ completion rates, preference for, and perceived value of pre-module content delivered via video and reading. Participants in the National Advanced Silviculture Program self-reported significantly higher pre-module completion rates, preference for, and perceived value of video over reading. This simple study suggests the potential for video to serve as an accessible and preferred format for delivery of key content to supplement an in-person continuing education program.
9. Bureau of Lost Management: Narrow interests now dominate the agency's direction
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kenna, Jim (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11728
- Journal Title:
- High Country News
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(7) : 42
- Notes:
- Online from publisher., Author observes how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is losing sight of the traditional mission of maintaining public lands and passing them intact to the next generation. "The BLM's mission is not ideological and does no give preference to certain land users. Its legal mandate calls for managing public lands for a variety of uses, treating energy generation and conservation equally. But now, the agency is losing sight of that mission."
10. Cash for water creates win-win for ranchers: cooperation with environmental groups enhances water conservation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Brooks,Rhonda (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09
- Published:
- USA: Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11780
- Journal Title:
- Drovers
- Journal Title Details:
- : 10, 12
- Notes:
- Online from publisher., Case example of arrangements by which participating ranchers and farmers are compensated for water they did not use. Financial support provided through cooperation with various organizations and environmental groups, based on shared interest in enhancing water conservation.