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2. Media and social licence: on being publicly useful in the Tasmanian forests conflict
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lester, Libby (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10
- Published:
- Oxford Academic
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11502
- Journal Title:
- Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 89(5): 542–551
- Notes:
- 10 pages., via online journal., This article analyses the role of media in the representation and circulation of the term ‘social licence’ within public debate. It does so in the context of an increasingly global political economy of forests, growing public interest in resource procurement and environmental sustainability, and new forms of mediatized environmental conflict that carry volatile notions of ‘the affected’. Drawing on a longitudinal study of the three-decade-long conflict over forests and forestry in the Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, this research outlines the emergence, embedding and decline of the term ‘social licence’ in national and local media coverage. The article argues that the term's openness and strategic deployment by stakeholders in news media exposes industries, markets and communities to continuing conflict, while making the term a site for conflict itself. The article concludes by asking how – within the context of expanding international markets and complex supply chains, and sophisticated use of media by campaigners, corporations and governments – ‘social licence’ can be a publicly useful concept.
3. Monitor farms as a tool for practice change -- the 8x5 Wool Profit Program experience
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thompson, Robin (author), Campbell, Sarah (author), Counsell, David (author), Friend, Doug (author), Ackland, Sarah (author), and Barrington, Steve (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2006-03-06
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24256
- Notes:
- 11 p. Paper presented at the Australasia Pacific Extension Network in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, March 6-8, 2006
4. Payment for information and its facilitation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thompson, R.P. (author / Agricultural Officer, Department of Agriculture, Scottsdale, Tasmania)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1987
- Published:
- Australia: Marrickville, Australia : Academic Press.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05529
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 53 (1) : 21-24.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 87058771
5. Tough jobs
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Neill, Alexandra (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D06983
- Journal Title:
- Metro
- Journal Title Details:
- 188 : 44-47
6. Using the theory of planned behaviour framework to understand Tasmanian dairy farmer engagement with extension activities to inform future delivery
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Turner, Lyia (author), Hall, Alison (author), Kilpatrick, Sue (author), and Dairy Australia
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-01
- Published:
- Tasmania, Australia: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10118
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(1)
- Notes:
- 17 pages, via online journal, Translator disclaimer Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access ABSTRACT Purpose: To identify and understand factors influencing farmers’ decisions to engage with extension activities. To understand farmer segments and how these factors vary in order to develop recommendations for future extension delivery. Methodology: Qualitative data was obtained through semi-structured interviews with 30 Tasmanian dairy farmers. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) framework was used to identify and explore factors influencing farmer engagement intentions and behaviour. Findings: There was a negative effect of social influence on experienced farmers’ intention to re-engage with extension, due to the belief extension activities were targeted to less experienced, younger farmers. Perceived control factors limiting engagement included lack of confidence about existing knowledge, resulting in farmers perceiving extension activities as confronting. Practical implications: Key factors influencing intention to engage and continued engagement with extension were identified. These findings will inform future design and targeting of extension activities to improve initial and continued engagement. Subsequent recommendations are presented. Theoretical implications: Previous TPB studies on adoption as an outcome of extension have typically focused on quantifying adoption predictions, rather than exploring how social factors interact and influence intentions and behaviours. This paper demonstrates how the TPB can be qualitatively applied to better understand farmer decision making, in this instance with respect to their initial and continued engagement with extension. Originality/value: This paper demonstrates how the TPB can provide an evidence-based framework to qualitatively explore farmer intentions and behaviour. This approach has led to new insights into farmer decision making that will inform improvements in future extension development.