A missing piece of the puzzle of on-farm freshwater restoration: What motivates land managers to record and report land management actions?

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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Katharina Doehring¹  Nancy Longnecker²  Cathy Cole²  Roger G. Young¹  Christina Robb⁴ 

[1] Cawthron Institute;Department of Science Communication, University of Otago;Graduate School of the Environment, Centre for Alternative Technology;Happen Consulting

关键词: agriculture;    catchment groups;    ecosystem;    freshwater;    land management;    land use actions;    monitoring;    motivations;    recording;    reporting;    restoration;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-13562-270425

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Worldwide, progress has been made toward managing productive lands more sustainably to improve freshwater health.However, a lack of national guidance for environmental reporting and recording means that it is not possible to quantify consistentlywhich land management actions that help improve water quality have been implemented, where, when, and to what extent. This situationsuggests that information on the effectiveness of these actions is missing or fragmented. Systematic recording and reporting of landmanagement actions is an important piece of a large freshwater restoration puzzle. We investigated what motivates New Zealand landmanagers to record their actions and report them to their networks by conducting 23 semi-structured interviews. Between Februaryand November 2020, we spoke with food producers, New Zealand Indigenous people of the land tāngata whenua community members,and government and industry representatives. The key themes that described motivators for these land managers to record and reportland management actions were collective engagement (e.g., working with catchment care groups), identity and social norms (e.g., beinga “socially approved” farmer), and efficient farm management (e.g., using one simple recording tool for multiple purposes to save time).While these findings will be broadly germane to international contexts, they are being used specifically to inform the development ofa proposed National Register of Land Management Actions in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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