Psychosocial drivers of land management behaviour: How threats, norms, and context influence deforestation intentions.

摘要: Understanding how private landholders make deforestation decisions is of paramount importance for conservation. Behavioural frameworks from the social sciences have a lot to offer researchers and practitioners, yet these insights remain underutilised in describing what drives landholders’ intentions under important political, social, management contexts. Using survey data Queensland, Australia, we compare ability two popular behavioural models predict future intentions, propose more integrated model intentions. We found that outperformed other models, revealing threat perceptions, attitudes, norms predicting Social capital, policy uncertainty, years experience are contextual moderators psychological factors. conclude with recommendations promoting behaviour change this hotspot highlight others can adopt similar approaches illuminate proximate drivers environmental behaviours