| Responsible Department | Forest & Landscape | ||||||||||||
| Research School | Forest, Landscape and Planning (REFOLANA) NB! I am moving an already existing course from the old database to this new one | ||||||||||||
| Course Dates | Optional. Will be decided together with participants | ||||||||||||
| Course Abstract | The aim of the course is to develop an overview of theories, models and empirical research related to landowners' decision behaviour regarding nature conservation and management, including voluntary agreements. A secondary aim is to improve the ability to critically analyse and discuss scientific papers, and to develop understanding of the criteria that scientific journals use to assess papers' suitability for the journal. | ||||||||||||
| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, send an email to Tove Enggrob Boon, tb@life.ku.dk | ||||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | The course will be conducted when a minimum of 5 participants have signed up. | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Faculty of Life Sciences, UoC, Frederiksberg | ||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||
| Journal Club 1: Theory of applied behaviour Objective: To get an impression of a decision model based on rational behaviour and research methods used to illustrate this model. Journal Club 2: Cultural Theory Objective: To get an impression of decision model based on thought styles and cultural theory and research methods to illustrate this model. Journal Club 3: The landowner and decision behaviour Objective: - To identify factors influencing the behaviour and decisions of landowners and research methods used to analysis this. (E.g. Socioeconomics: Age, educational level, relation to agriculture) - To identify factors related to the landowner as an individual and factors influencing him/her. - To understand landowners perceptions of different kind of nature protection and how this influence the decisions. Journal Club 4: The surroundings and the landowners decision behaviour Objective: To identify factors in the surroundings which influence the landowners' decisions and research methods used to illustrate this. Journal Club 5: Contracts with landowners about nature management Objective: - Knowledge about existing analysis of contract-design and landowners. - Knowledge about factors in the contract-design that influence the landowners' willingness to accept the contract. - To understand landowners perception of different kinds of contracts for nature management, including risk. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| The course consists of reading and 5 journal clubs. Each journal club has a subject and related literature which should be read before the journal club. It is essential that the PhD students participate actively and there will be a facilitated discussion. For each journal club there will be some initial questions which will be used to start a discussion. Each journal club is started by a short presentation by one of the participants. Each journal club is 4 X 45 min plus 15 min break. The participants write an essay containing their own reflection and the relevance to the PhD project. The participant can be experts as well, but they will only take part in the journal clubs of interest. | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| The aim of the course is provide an overview of theories and empirical research related to landowners' decision behaviour regarding nature conservation and management, with a particular emphasis on the willingness of landowners to enter voluntary agreements. A secondary aim is to improve the ability to critically analyse and discuss scientific papers, and to develop understanding of the criteria that different scientific journals use to assess papers' suitability for the journal. Learning objectives To understand different theories and models of decision behaviour. To understand and be able to analyse what different internal and external factors that influence landowner decision-making To understand how different types of nature conservation influence the decision To understand how the design of contracts influences landowner decision-making To get an overview of Scientific Journals relevant to research on landowner behaviour | |||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||
| Nordlund A.M. & Garvill, J. 2002. Value Structures Behind Proenvironmental Behavior. Environment and Behaviour 34: 740-756 Beedell, J.D.C. & Rehman, T. 2000. Using social psychology models to understand farmers' conservation behaviour. Journal of Rural Studies 16:117-127 Stern, P.C. 2000. Towards a coherent theory of environmentally significant behavior. Journal of Social Issues 56 (3): 407-424. Steg, L. and Sievers, I. 2000.Cultural Theory and Individual Perceptions of Environmental Risks. Environment and behaviour 32: 250-269 Rosemarie Siebert, Mark Toogood and Andrea Knierim. (2006) Factors Affecting European Farmers' Participation in Biodiversity Policies. Sociologia Ruralis 46:4, 318-340 Busck, A. 2003. Hedgerow planting analysed as a social system - interaction between farmers and other actors in Denmark. Journal of Environmental Management 68: 161-171. Hallwood, P. 2007. Contractual difficulties in environmental management: The case of wetland mitigation bankin | |||||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||||
| Peer reviewed articles | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Tove Ragnhild Enggrob Boon, tb@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 353-31760 | |||||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||||
| Tove Enggrob Boon Lone S. Kristensen Stine W. Broch | |||||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||||
| Hand in an essay | |||||||||||||
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| Other Remarks | |||||||||||||
| NB! I am moving an already existing course from the old database to this new one | |||||||||||||