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Title
Factors Affecting Support for Transnational Conservation Targeting Migratory Species |
Full text
https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/factors-affecting-support-for-transnational-conservation-targetin |
Date
2019 |
Author(s)
Vogdrup-Schmidt, Mathias; Abatayo, Anna Lou; Shogren, Jason F.; Strange, Niels; Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark |
Abstract
International efforts to protect biodiversity depend on transnational collaboration and on public support for transnational policies to be implemented. Yet, we know little about what may compel citizens to support such transnational conservation efforts. In this paper, we design a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore how different framings and information about support shared across borders affect a citizen's conservation donations. Using a dictator game, we ask for donations from individuals in Denmark, Spain, and Ghana for the protection of natural habitats of the migratory Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus). We focus on citizens from Denmark, Spain and Ghana since these countries lie along the harrier's migratory route. We found that information affects donation behavior, albeit differently in each country. Our Danish and Ghanaian participants contributed more when (1) pre-donation information stressed that transnational collaboration is needed, and (2) they were told that a measure of their group's donation would be forwarded to other participants. In contrast, our Spanish participants donated less overall and were insensitive to the information treatments. The results document large differences across countries in supporting behavior in such transnational conservation settings and could influence how international conservation organizations organize and shape fundraising for their work. |
Subject(s)
Conservation; Dictator game; Donation; Information; Migratory species; Transnational collaboration |
Language
en |
Relation
https://edepot.wur.nl/588307 |
Type of publication
info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Article/Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Format
text/html |
Source
Ecological Economics 157 (2019); ISSN: 0921-8009 |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; (c) publisher; Wageningen University & Research |
Identifier
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.11.011 |
Repository
Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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