Conservation Program Participation and Adaptive Rangeland Decision-Making

摘要: This paper analyzes rancher participation in conservation programs the context of a social-ecological framework for adaptive rangeland decision-making. We argue that are best understood as one many strategies adaptively managing rangelands ways sustain livelihoods and ecosystem services. The hypothesizes four categories variables affecting program participation: operation/operator characteristics, time horizon, social network connections, values. Based on mail survey California ranchers, multinomial logit models used to estimate impact these different levels involvement programs. findings suggest ranchers with larger amounts land, an orientation towards future, who opinion leaders access information, more likely participate