Farmar-Bowers Quentin, Lane Ruth
Faculty of Law and Management, Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
J Environ Manage. 2009 Feb;90(2):1135-44. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.05.002. Epub 2008 Jun 18.
The conservation of biodiversity is an important issue world wide and in Australia the maintenance of native biodiversity on farms makes an important contribution to overall conservation objectives. This paper seeks to explain Australian farmers' rationale for maintaining biodiversity on their farms for personal as opposed to business reasons by developing a decision-systems theory from in-depth interviews. This difference has implications for policy development. The decision-systems theory is divided into two main sections. The first section contains five parts. (1) A hierarchy of motivation stories, (2) the concept of suitability and availability of opportunities, (3) a hierarchy of three decision-systems, (4) the concept of personal career paths, (5) the concept of Lenses. The second section contains one part, a policy classification system called 'boxes of influence' that suggests how policy developers can use the information in the first section to develop new biodiversity conservation policy. The paper suggests that decision-systems theory could be used to shed new light on current trends in agriculture and become an important investigative tool for policy development concerning the conservation of biodiversity on farms.
生物多样性保护是一个全球性的重要问题，在澳大利亚，农场中本土生物多样性的维护对整体保护目标做出了重要贡献。本文旨在通过深入访谈发展出一种决策系统理论，来解释澳大利亚农民出于个人而非商业原因在其农场维护生物多样性的基本原理。这种差异对政策制定具有影响。决策系统理论分为两个主要部分。第一部分包含五个方面。（1）动机故事的层次结构，（2）机会的适宜性和可获得性概念，（3）三种决策系统的层次结构，（4）个人职业道路的概念，（5）透镜的概念。第二部分包含一个方面，一个名为“影响框”的政策分类系统，它表明政策制定者如何利用第一部分中的信息来制定新的生物多样性保护政策。本文认为，决策系统理论可用于为当前农业趋势提供新的见解，并成为制定有关农场生物多样性保护政策的重要调查工具。
