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Personal norms of sustainability and their impact on management : the case of rangeland management in semi-arid regions

Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2011

We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the norm-activation theory and operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands of Namibia, a system that is subject to extensive...

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Challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil

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The conservation versus production trade-off : does livestock intensification increase deforestation? : the case of the Brazilian Amazon

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Ingenillem, Jessica; Merz, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2014

We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on commercial cattle farming in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia. Cattle farmers in Namibia act within a coupled ecological-economic system that is subject to extensive degradation and...

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