Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28685
Title: Managing outcome-focused, engaged 'human' research
Contributor(s): Martin, Paul  (author)orcid ; Alter, Theodore R  (author); Hine, Donald W (author); Choy, Darryl Low (author); Curtis, Paul (author)
Publication Date: 2019
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28685
Abstract: Many of the people who will read this book invest considerable effort trying to influence and shape people's behaviour to reduce the economic, human welfare and environmental costs caused by invasive species. It is likely that their attempts to bring about change in people's behaviour will often not have been as successful as they would wish. As other chapters highlight, creating desirable patterns of behaviour is very difficult, as is understanding the complex patterns of causes and consequences of human behaviour. Building community awareness and citizen motivation to 'do the right thing' in the face of competing messages and other demands requires skill, knowledge and investment. The challenge is made more difficult because the economic incentives for responsibly managing invasive species (and many other natural resource challenges) are often weak, and managing these problems requires ongoing effort and financial investment, often by 'volunteer' citizens who are prepared to do the right thing. As earlier chapters demonstrate, the problems of motivation and capabilities are only two of the impediments that must be overcome. Other chapters have highlighted issues of coordination, funding, political complexities and public communications that also should be examined. This chapter considers what all this means for the design and implementation of research.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Community-Based Control of Invasive Species, p. 141-161
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Place of Publication: Clayton, Australia
ISBN: 9781486308873
9781789242539
1486308872
1789242533
9781486308880
9781486308897
1486308880
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050211 Wildlife and Habitat Management
169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 410407 Wildlife and habitat management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960413 Control of Plant Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 180602 Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in terrestrial environments
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080864372
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107562152
https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/7809/#details
Editor: Editor(s): Paul Martin, Theodore Alter, Don Hine and Tanya Howard
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Law

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