"Farming in a fishbowl"- landowners' motivations to initiate the collaborative riparian restoration
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Rahimova, Nargiz
issued: 2022-08-12T22:07:00Z
issued: 2022
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This study looks into landowners’ motives to initiate a collaborative riparian restoration project in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. The project intends to coordinate restoration activities across several adjoining parcels, better aligning activities with the natural riparian processes than would occur through individual, uncoordinated actions. This study provided a number of important insights into the understanding of factors motivating collective restoration projects. The study also helped understand the specific social-ecological context where riparian restoration can be used as an adaptation approach to climate change by farming communities. This analysis highlights that the emergence and execution of this project was the result of a coincidence of enabling conditions. Important initial triggers included impacts from changing weather patterns that increase farming costs and a threat of regulatory action. Landowners’ perception of being in a ‘fishbowl’ in relation to a nearby residential subdivision created a perceived need to act as a group and demonstrate their pro-environmental attitudes. The availability of a funding program targeted at group farm projects enabled this project to proceed. Improved knowledge about climate change and the role of ecosystems in mitigating the impacts, facilitated by the restoration practitioners, served as an important driver for change in motivations and intention to proceed despite regulatory and project management hurdles and delays. Although a supportive regulatory environment was found important to motivating the restoration collective action, institutional barriers do not discourage participation if other enabling factors are present.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/82361
note: “FARMING IN A FISHBOWL” – LANDOWNERS’ MOTIVATIONS TO INITIATE THE COLLABORATIVE RIPARIAN RESTORATION by Nargiz Rahimova Master in Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, 2013 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) August 2022 © Nargiz Rahimova, 2022 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: “Farming in a fishbowl” – landowners’ motivations to initiate the collaborative riparian restoration submitted by Nargiz Rahimova in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts. Dr. John Janmaat – Irving K.Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor Dr. Donna Senese - Irving K.Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Kevin Hanna - Irving K.Barber Faculty of Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Adam Wei - Irving K.Barber Faculty of Sciences University Examiner cv iii Abstract This study looks into landowners’ motives to initiate a collaborative riparian restoration project in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. The project intends to coordinate restoration activities across several adjoining parcels, better aligning activities with the natural riparian processes than would occur through individual, uncoordinated actions. This study provided a number of important insights into the understanding of factors motivating collective restoration projects. The study also helped understand the specific social-ecological context where riparian restoration can be used as an adaptation approach to climate change by farming communities. This analysis highlights that the emergence and execution of this project was the result of a coincidence of enabling conditions. Important initial triggers included impacts fro…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2022-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0417294
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Janmaat, John
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82361