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| Title: | | Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management: The case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions  |
| Authors: | | Olbrich, Roland Quaas, Martin F. Baumgärtner, Stefan |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics 209 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | commercial cattle farming Namibia norm-activation theory personal norms dual-preferences model semi-arid rangelands sustainability |
| JEL: | | D63 Q12 Q57 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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