Teagasc Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme, Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Farming Systems Ecology Group, Wageningen University and Research, 6708B, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Environ Manage. 2022 Jun;69(6):1167-1185. doi: 10.1007/s00267-022-01647-2. Epub 2022 Apr 22.
Growing sustainability demands on land have a high knowledge requirement across multiple scientific domains. Exploring networks can expose opportunities for targeting. Using mixed-methods combining social network analysis (SNA) and surveys, networks for key soil functions in case studies in Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands are explored. We find a diversity of contrasting networks that reflect local conditions, sustainability challenges and governance structure. Farmers were found to occupy a central role in the agri-environmental governance network. A comparison of the SNA and survey results indicate low acceptance of messages from many central actors indicating scope to better harness the network for sustainable land management. The source of the messages was important when it came to the implementation of farm management actions. Two pathways for enhanced farmer uptake of multi-functionality are proposed that have wider application are; to increase trust between farmers and actors that are agents of multi-functional messages and/or to increase the bundling or multi-functionality of messages (mandate) of actors trusted by farmers.
对土地可持续性的需求不断增长，这需要多学科的专业知识。探索网络可以发现目标定位的机会。本研究采用社会网络分析（SNA）和调查相结合的混合方法，对德国、爱尔兰和荷兰的案例研究中的关键土壤功能网络进行了探讨。我们发现了多样性的对比鲜明的网络，这些网络反映了当地的条件、可持续性挑战和治理结构。研究发现，农民在农业环境治理网络中占据核心地位。SNA 和调查结果的比较表明，许多核心参与者的信息接受程度较低，这表明在可持续土地管理方面，有更大的潜力来利用网络。信息的来源对于实施农场管理措施至关重要。提出了两种可以增强农民对多功能性接受程度的途径，即：增加农民和传递多功能性信息的行为者之间的信任，或者增加农民信任的行为者的信息（授权）的捆绑或多功能性。
