The attitudes and behaviours of private landholders toward the conservation of a highly transformed and critically endangered habitat, Overberg Coastal Renosterveld (OCR) (a grassy shrubland of the Cape Floral Region, South Africa) are described. Personal, semistructured interviews were conducted with landholders, representing 40 properties in the Overberg region, on topics such as management a...

Despite the recent successful establishment of systematic land registration programs in some African countries including Ethiopia, updating registers has become a growing concern. However, there is limited empirical evidence about whether landholders’ behavior driving lack Ethiopia. Using theory planned behavior, this study examines factors that influence formalizing rural transactions Primary ...

Conservation investments are increasingly being implemented through payments for ecosystem services (PES) for the protection and restoration of ecosystem services around the world. Previous studies suggested that social norms have substantial impacts on environmental behaviors of humans, including enrollment of PES programs. However, it is still not well understood how social norms are affected...

Forest conservation on privately owned lands is a cornerstone of the Brazilian environmental policy framework. legislation requires that all farms in country maintain and protect forest areas known as Legal Reserves. Since Reserves have major implications for agricultural production, it key we understand landholders' perceptions towards We applied Q methodology to identify different perspective...

Inter-state migration in search of livelihood is an important feature of the Indian economy. The direction of migration is determined by the direction of the inequality. Rural-urban migration is a mechanism of adjustment by an individual or group to development gaps created between the dynamic industrial sector in urban/peri-urban areas and the more inert agricultural sector in rural areas (Gue...

Attitude certainty has been the subject of considerable attention in the attitudes and persuasion literature. The present research identifies 2 aspects of attitude certainty and provides evidence for the distinctness of the constructs. Specifically, it is proposed that attitude certainty can be conceptualized, and empirically separated, in terms of attitude clarity (the subjective sense that on...

This article considers the incorporation of Prussians, Sudovians, and Scalovians who migrated to territories which were not theirs originally, into social system State Teutonic Order between 1280s 1370s. The author examines main aspects this issue, i.e. property status duties migrants, with reference data from 41 acts granted them by church, Chronicles written Peter Dusburg Caspar Shuetz. study...

This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota) as an extended question. It shows how two capitalist development trajectories identified Lenin Russian American paths, or transformation of feudal large-scale small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply Indonesia. In lat...