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Identity Processes and Support for Biodiversity Conservation

Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione. 18th iaps Conference Wien, 7-10 July 2004. Identity Processes and Support for Biodiversity Conservation. Giuseppe Carrus. Biodiversity conservation and protected areas.

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Identity Processes and Support for Biodiversity Conservation

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  1. Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione 18th iaps Conference Wien, 7-10 July 2004 Identity Processes and Support for Biodiversity Conservation Giuseppe Carrus

  2. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Biodiversity conservation and protected areas • Protected areas: main tool for coping with biodiversity loss • Major barrier to protected areas: opposition of local communities • Worthy issue for EP: studying social psychological factors driving support/ opposition to protected areas

  3. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Biodiversity conservation and protected areas • Protected areas: main tool for coping with biodiversity loss • Major barrier to protected areas: opposition of local communities • Worthy issue for EP: studying social psychological factors driving support/ opposition to protected areas

  4. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Biodiversity conservation and protected areas • Protected areas: main tool for coping with biodiversity loss • Major barrier to protected areas: opposition of local communities • Worthy issue for EP: studying social psychological factors driving support/ opposition to protected areas

  5. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Support/opposition for protected areas 3 domains of social psychological research • Environmental concern • Commons dilemmas • Identity processes

  6. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Support/opposition for protected areas 3 domains of social psychological research • Environmental concern • Commons dilemmas • Identity processes

  7. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Support/opposition for protected areas 3 domains of social psychological research • Environmental concern • Commons dilemmas • Identity processes

  8. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Support/opposition for protected areas 1 ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN The diffusion of pro-environmental attitudes should lead to generalized support for of protected areas 2 SOCIAL DILEMMAS Dilemmas upon natural resources exploitation should lead to opposition for protected areas

  9. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Support/opposition for protected areas 1 ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN The diffusion of pro-environmental attitudes should lead to generalized support for of protected areas 2 SOCIAL DILEMMAS Dilemmas upon natural resources exploitation should lead to opposition for protected areas

  10. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Identity and opposition to protected areas 2 recent empirical studies • S. Stoll-Kleemann, JEP 2001 Group processes encouraging social identity + resource dilemmas as major barriers to protected areas in Germany • Bonaiuto et al., JOEP 2001 Negative correlations between regional identification & local attachment and support for protected areas in Italy

  11. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Identity and opposition to protected areas 2 recent empirical studies • S. Stoll-Kleemann, JEP 2001 Group processes encouraging social identity + resource dilemmas as major barriers to protected areas in Germany • Bonaiuto et al., JOEP 2002 Negative correlations between regional identification & local attachment and support for protected areas in Italy

  12. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Identity and support for protected areas • Recent empirical evidence: high place-identity (Uzzell et al., E&B 2002) predicts pro-env conducts • The status of “protected area” should enhance the distinctiveness of a place • PIT and SIT: high-identifiers tend to favor their in-place or in-groups, as long as they provide optimal distinctiveness • Stoll-Kleeman’s and Bonaiuto et al.’s studies dealt with top-down designated protected areas: what if there is more local involvement?

  13. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Identity and support for protected areas • Recent empirical evidence: high place-identity (Uzzell et al., E&B 2002) predicts pro-env conducts • The status of “protected area” should enhance the distinctiveness of a place • PIT and SIT: high-identifiers tend to favor their in-place or in-groups, as long as they provide optimal distinctiveness • Stoll-Kleeman’s and Bonaiuto et al.’s studies dealt with top-down designated protected areas: what if there is more local involvement?

  14. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Identity and support for protected areas • Recent empirical evidence: high place-identity (Uzzell et al., E&B 2002) predicts pro-env conducts • The status of “protected area” should enhance the distinctiveness of a place • PIT and SIT: high-identifiers tend to favor their in-place or in-groups, as long as they provide optimal distinctiveness • Stoll-Kleeman’s and Bonaiuto et al.’s studies dealt with top-down designated protected areas: what if there is more local involvement?

  15. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Identity and support for protected areas • Recent empirical evidence: high place-identity (Uzzell et al., E&B 2002) predicts pro-env conducts • The status of “protected area” should enhance the distinctiveness of a place • PIT and SIT: high-identifiers tend to favor their in-place or in-groups, as long as they provide optimal distinctiveness • Stoll-Kleeman’s and Bonaiuto et al.’s studies dealt with top-down designated protected areas: what if there is more local involvement?

  16. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Main research question Which is the role of local identification in driving people response to protected area designation?

  17. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 1- The Geominerarian Park of Sardinia General context Protected area designated by local institutions in 1997 (Regional Administration & Sardinian Mining Agency) Aim of protecting and recovering old extraction sites abandoned since mining industry crisis Local communities involved since early phases of the park designation

  18. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 1- The Geominerarian Park of Sardinia Aims Assessing the role of env concern, general attitudes toward protected areas & regional identification in predicting support for the Geominerarian Park Hyp Regional identification positively predicts support for the specific park independently of the other attitude measures

  19. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 1- The Geominerarian Park of Sardinia Participants: 316 Sardinian residents balanced for socio-demo characteristics Measures: Self-administered questionnaire, Likert scales adapted from previous studies

  20. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 1 – scale reliability

  21. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 1 – Multiple regression age gender residence SUPPORT FOR SPECIFIC PARK environmental concern regional empowerment Regional pride attitudes parks in general

  22. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 1 – Multiple regression age gender R2 = .25 residence SUPPORT FOR SPECIFIC PARK environmental concern regional empowerment .14 regional pride .46 attitudes parks in general

  23. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 2 - The Archaeological Park of Gravina General context & measures: Similar to St #1 Participants: 157 subjects Aims & Hyp: Confirming results of St #1 Analyses : Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

  24. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 2 – scale reliability

  25. N = 141 .87 ENVIR CONCERN .87 ATTITUDES PARKS IN GENERAL .42 .87 .68 .87 .79 .64 .87 REGIONAL PRIDE .87 .30 .87 .92 SUPPORT FOR SPECIFIC PARK .35 .90 .87 REGIONAL EMPWRMNT .90 .87 .87 G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 St 2 – SEM with latent variables c2(86) = 131.7 p = .001 RMSEA = .06 NNFI =.94 SRMR = .08 CFI = .95

  26. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Concluding remarks • Increasing support for Hyp across St #1 & St #2 > reliability - more explained var. - bigger effect size • Strong local identity positively predicts support for specific parks • Need of involving local communities via inclusive and participatory deliberation • Future studies: testing causal relations through experimental designs (e.g. manipulating identity salience; using scenarios)

  27. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Concluding remarks • Increasing support for Hyp across St #1 & St #2 > reliability - more explained var. - bigger effect size • Strong local identity positively predicts support for specific parks • Need of involving local communities via inclusive and participatory deliberation • Future studies: testing causal relations through experimental designs (e.g. manipulating identity salience; using scenarios)

  28. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Concluding remarks • Increasing support for Hyp across St #1 & St #2 > reliability - more explained var. - bigger effect size • Strong local identity positively predicts support for specific parks • Need of involving local communities via inclusive and participatory deliberation • Future studies: testing causal relations through experimental designs (e.g. manipulating identity salience; using scenarios)

  29. G. Carrus - 18th iaps Conference - Wien, 7-10 Jul 2004 Concluding remarks • Increasing support for Hyp across St #1 & St #2 > reliability - more explained var. - bigger effect size • Strong local identity positively predicts support for specific parks • Need of involving local communities via inclusive and participatory deliberation • Future studies: testing causal relations through experimental designs (e.g. manipulating identity salience; using scenarios)

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