Ecological and social constraints are key for voluntary investments into renewable natural resources |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany;2. Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research, Fahrenheitstraße 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany;3. Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France;4. Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, e2s UPPA, INRAE, ECOBIOP, Aquapôle INRAE, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, France;5. EcoLab, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France;6. Division of Integrative Fisheries Management, Faculty of Life Sciences and Integrative Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 42, 10115 Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Encouraging pro-environmental behavior is an urgent global challenge. An interdisciplinary framework covering governance, economic, social, ecological, and psychological dimensions is required to understand the salient features that encourage pro-environmental outcomes within and across contexts. We apply the Ostrom social-ecological systems framework to model voluntary investments by members of civil society into the aquatic environment. Using a data set of 1,809 angling clubs managing water bodies for fish stocking and habitat management in Germany and France, we show that a small set of factors, most crucially social-ecological and governance context as well as social norms and other bottom-up social pressures, drive environmental investments. These factors appear to override behavioral influences from psychological variables of the decision-maker. By contrast, the contextual setting related to property rights, size of the resource system, and social expectations were found to be strongly related to behavioral decisions, highlighting that the social-ecological context as well as incentives may be more important than knowledge and cognitions in driving certain pro-environmental actions. |
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| Keywords: | Coupled natural and human systems Conservation psychology Governance Natural resources Recreational fisheries Fisheries management |
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