Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2028686
Ben Posetti, A. Hurlimann, Aaron Tkaczynski, Melanie Randle, S. Dolnicar
ABSTRACT A large proportion of the global population is currently grappling with water shortages. In many countries, the potential implementation of recycled water initiatives has been thwarted because of public opposition towards the notion of using recycled water. The development of effective advertising messages that increase public acceptance and willingness to use alternative water sources would increase the likelihood of recycled water use being embraced by communities. The present study conducted a factorial design experiment to test the effectiveness of 18 different print advertising messages in the context of recycled water use. Both egoistic and altruistic benefits are equally effective in increasing behavioural intention. Communicating the delivery rather than the desirability of benefits is more likely to increase community acceptance of recycled water. Print media represents a cost-effective marketing channel and has the potential to facilitate greater public support for recycled water initiatives.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2090126
H. Ross, C. Baldwin
As the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, and 30th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, were celebrated in June 2022, we take the opportunity to consider the influences of water in approaches to environmental governance and management. These environmental management approaches are not exclusive to water research and management, but have been highly influential, to the benefit of other sectors. These pioneering Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro international conventions had a major role in setting worldwide directions for sustainable development, climate change, recognition of Indigenous peoples, impact assessment, biological diversity, and Agenda 21 (about local development), and on many other topics such as forest management, aspects of wildlife, fish stocks, and arresting desertification. Despite much emphasis on rational planning, the Stockholm conference also offered some seeds of bottom-up management, and strengthening institutions especially for the less industrialised countries (United Nations 1973, Action plan for the human environment, recommendation 7). The anniversary conference, Stockholm +50, co-hosted by Sweden and Kenya, has emphasised the global interconnectedness of the environment, and the ‘triple crisis’ of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The Presidents, in their concluding plenary address, highlighted re-energising commitments and relationships, system-wide change in the way our current system works to contribute to a healthy planet, and accelerating system-wide transformations in high impact sectors (Stockholm+50 Presidents final remarks to plenary 2022). This highlights much greater attention to systemic connections than was present 50, even 30, years ago. Nevertheless, although water is recognised in other major international initiatives (especially the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development 2018–2028, and two of the Sustainable Development Goals), the seminal Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, and Stockholm+50 conferences have placed relatively little emphasis on water beyond the human needs perspective of drinking water and sanitation. Water has particular characteristics that have helped to drive directions and innovations in environmental management, policy and governance. Water is the most fundamental of human needs, in that an individual human can survive only a few days without it. It is also crucial to plant and animal life, part of atmospheric processes, and essential to life within soils. Water for sanitation is vital to human health. Water is also integral to many production processes, in primary and secondary industry, and hence to livelihoods and economies. Water moves across rather than being limited within specific parcels of land. Typically rivers cross the lands of many owners or managers, and quite a number cross jurisdictions, including international boundari
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2074156
Omer Yezdani, L. Sanzogni, L. Houghton
ABSTRACT In January 2011, flooding of historic proportions hit the Australian city of Brisbane causing one death. Understanding the decisions made on dam operation in response to intense rainfall is crucial for preventing such disasters or at least, minimising risk in the future. This article reports on an analysis of 345 legal transcripts conducted during the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry (QFCI) revealing a subjective process of decision-making, akin to bricolage, with a distinctly complex and emergent quality to the formation of mitigation strategies during one of the city’s worst natural disasters on record. The main contribution of this article is how complexity theory, uniquely connected to the concept of emergent strategy formation, can be applied to complex disaster situations. There has been limited research on how problems require a flexible and adaptable process to manage the cascading patterns of emergent crises. The article proposes future research related to understanding emergent patterns and the management of complexity in organisations.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1987345
Chin-Wen Chang, Sheng-hsiung Chang, H. Chiu, Yicheng Liu
ABSTRACT In the context of global commitment to decarbonising the highly urbanising world, studies of consumer thinking regarding switching to electric motorcycles are lacking. Our study therefore attempts to provide a first illustration of a model drawing on transaction cost economics (TCE) theory. We hypothesise that consumers’ intention to switch to electric motorcycles is based on perceived transaction costs (i.e. search and adoption costs), and transaction costs are determined by different types of uncertainty (i.e. branding, environmental, performance and behavioural uncertainty), and dependability. Given recent calls to develop our understanding of green consumption in different contexts, we use the Asia Pacific region as an illustrative context. Regression modelling is based on data collected from a sample of 1094 consumers in Taipei. Our findings confirm all of the proposed hypotheses. The implications of the findings are discussed as well as the limitations of the study and recommendations for further research.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2029775
Julia Talbot-Jones, J. Bennett
ABSTRACT In the context of water management, designing and implementing bottom-up governance regimes that are more sensitive to local knowledge and provide for the direct participation of local actors is of growing interest. Mechanisms that facilitate the successful devolution of authority to local actors remain a challenge, however. This article seeks to understand whether the ‘Rights of Nature’ approach could be a used as a mechanism for transferring decision-making responsibility to local actors. A case study of the Whanganui River, Aotearoa New Zealand, suggests that granting legal rights to nature does help foster more bottom-up governance by using the social norms, customs, traditions, beliefs, and values of individuals within the community to shape the decision-making framework. The analysis highlights the role that local beliefs and customs play in enabling the transfer of decision-making responsibility to lower levels of an institutional arrangement when implementing the ‘Rights of Nature’ approach.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.2009047
R. Gillespie, J. Bennett
ABSTRACT European Carp is a species of freshwater fish that live in Australia's freshwater rivers, wetlands and lakes. It is a dominant pest species in Australia. As part of investigations into the potential release of the Cyprinid Herpes Virus 3 to control Carp numbers, a Choice Modelling (CM) study was undertaken to value the potential non-market environmental benefits of such a program. These potential benefits relate to increases in native fish populations, the area of healthy wetlands and waterbird populations. The CM study explicitly included a probability attribute to reflect the risk that various release options will deliver the identified environmental outcomes. Consequently, the willingness to pay (WTP) estimates derived from the choice models are expressed in terms of the expected values of outcomes: the physical outcomes multiplied by their probabilities of occurring. The preferred model of choice was a Random Parameter Logit model with a non-linear (cubed) transformation of the levels for each probability weighted environmental attribute. Consequently, estimates of WTP derived from the model increase as the level of an expected attribute increases. This non-linear form is consistent with respondents treating risk in a nonlinear fashion.
{"title":"Valuing uncertain environmental outcomes from herpes virus control of the European Carp","authors":"R. Gillespie, J. Bennett","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2021.2009047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2021.2009047","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT European Carp is a species of freshwater fish that live in Australia's freshwater rivers, wetlands and lakes. It is a dominant pest species in Australia. As part of investigations into the potential release of the Cyprinid Herpes Virus 3 to control Carp numbers, a Choice Modelling (CM) study was undertaken to value the potential non-market environmental benefits of such a program. These potential benefits relate to increases in native fish populations, the area of healthy wetlands and waterbird populations. The CM study explicitly included a probability attribute to reflect the risk that various release options will deliver the identified environmental outcomes. Consequently, the willingness to pay (WTP) estimates derived from the choice models are expressed in terms of the expected values of outcomes: the physical outcomes multiplied by their probabilities of occurring. The preferred model of choice was a Random Parameter Logit model with a non-linear (cubed) transformation of the levels for each probability weighted environmental attribute. Consequently, estimates of WTP derived from the model increase as the level of an expected attribute increases. This non-linear form is consistent with respondents treating risk in a nonlinear fashion.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"29 1","pages":"81 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47686528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2035834
Lissy Fehnker, D. Pearson, P. Howland
ABSTRACT Disconnect between humans and nature has been considered a driver of contemporary environmental crises. This has resulted in environmental managers calling for society to ‘re-connect’ with nature for future sustainability. However, conceptualisations of ‘connections to nature’ are fragmented in theoretical terms and practical application, as empirical research in environmental management literature exploring lay people’s conceptualisations of their personal ‘connections to nature’ is scarce. This raises a key issue: if environmental managers do not know what they are aiming for, how can it be effective? This study responds to the empirical gap by exploring what a ‘connection to nature’ means to lay individuals. Just under 1,000 respondents from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand engaged in the study. Results suggest that lay conceptualisations of ‘connections to nature’ range across nine dimensions – cognitive, affective, experiential, philosophical, spiritual, material, well-being, cultural or that it is a ‘hippie term’. Diversity of conceptualisations among the respondent group suggests that empirical exploration of the way that people conceptualise their ‘connections to nature’ is beneficial. These understandings could prove vital for more efficient sustainability actions to achieve more effective outcomes. The findings advance discourse on human-nature connections in environmental management literature.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2050100
H. Ross, Thilak Mallawaarachchi
Following the COP26 international climate negotiations of late 2021, countries settle to the task of meeting their new commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They do so with varying degrees of political commitment and sense of urgency, and the commitments vary widely in ambition and intent. Most countries’ commitments fall very far short of those needed to limit global warming to 1.5 or even two degrees centigrade (UNEP 2021). After COP21 our editors argued that the Paris agreement:
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2022.2034672
M. Fernandez, N. Golubiewski, Jennifer L. R. Joynt, Lauren A. Rhodes
ABSTRACT Vulnerability assessments to climate change are instruments to support the design of mitigation and adaptation strategies. They are relevant to cities or regions where the impacts may be significant and politicians are keen to avoid economic losses due to maladaptation or inefficient policy courses. Despite the relative simplicity of indicator-based assessments (IbAs), their reliability has been questioned due to their non-robustness and inconsistent outcomes due to changes in modelling assumptions. Nonetheless, politicians still require evidence-based tools to make decisions to signal adaptation and policy approaches. This article develops a range of IbAs through the Ordered WeightedAverage (OWA) approach to construct a decision space for policy-makers. The OWA incorporates the possibility of non-robustness and inconsistency, and improves our understanding about vulnerability. We take Auckland, New Zealand, as a case study and find that if policymakers are risk averse, policy focus is on minimising vulnerability to coastal inundation due to sea level rise. As policymakers ease risk aversion, focus switches to enhancing natural capital and ecosystem services. The OWA reveals the trade-offs prevalent in complex socio-ecological systems and coupled human-infrastructure systems. Therefore, it consolidates a knowledge base for decision-making, which could be adapted internationally and create knowledge spillover and exchange of expertise.
{"title":"Hot or not? Developing a spectrum of indicator-based assessments in approaching vulnerability to climate change","authors":"M. Fernandez, N. Golubiewski, Jennifer L. R. Joynt, Lauren A. Rhodes","doi":"10.1080/14486563.2022.2034672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2022.2034672","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Vulnerability assessments to climate change are instruments to support the design of mitigation and adaptation strategies. They are relevant to cities or regions where the impacts may be significant and politicians are keen to avoid economic losses due to maladaptation or inefficient policy courses. Despite the relative simplicity of indicator-based assessments (IbAs), their reliability has been questioned due to their non-robustness and inconsistent outcomes due to changes in modelling assumptions. Nonetheless, politicians still require evidence-based tools to make decisions to signal adaptation and policy approaches. This article develops a range of IbAs through the Ordered WeightedAverage (OWA) approach to construct a decision space for policy-makers. The OWA incorporates the possibility of non-robustness and inconsistency, and improves our understanding about vulnerability. We take Auckland, New Zealand, as a case study and find that if policymakers are risk averse, policy focus is on minimising vulnerability to coastal inundation due to sea level rise. As policymakers ease risk aversion, focus switches to enhancing natural capital and ecosystem services. The OWA reveals the trade-offs prevalent in complex socio-ecological systems and coupled human-infrastructure systems. Therefore, it consolidates a knowledge base for decision-making, which could be adapted internationally and create knowledge spillover and exchange of expertise.","PeriodicalId":46081,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"29 1","pages":"24 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48982485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2021.1986155
R. Mahadevan, Anda Nugroho
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of Indonesia’s electricity reform and meeting its 2030 carbon emissions and 2050 renewable energy targets on the country’s economic growth, carbon emissions and poverty and income distribution. Simulation results from a dynamic computable general equilibrium model show that energy reform and carbon tax in Indonesia have a regressive impact while the gasoline tax has a progressive impact. Of the two demand side policies, gasoline tax was found to be more harmful than the carbon tax, resulting in GDP loss, declining investment, higher energy prices, and rising urban and rural poverty. A hybrid policy comprising a renewable energy mix target (supply side policy) and a carbon tax (demand side policy) is a viable option for minimising GDP loss, income disparity and carbon emissions. However, the transition towards renewable energy use is fraught with challenges for Indonesia.
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