281
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Segmenting the Urban and Rural Populations of Southern Alberta for Improved Understanding of Policy Preferences for Water Reallocation

, &
Pages 1330-1350 | Received 25 Nov 2011, Accepted 05 Nov 2012, Published online: 18 Jul 2013

References

  • Alberta Environment . 2003a . South Saskatchewan River Basin water allocation . Edmonton , AB : Alberta Environment .
  • Alberta Environment . 2003b . Water for life—Alberta's strategy for sustainability . Edmonton , AB : Alberta Environment .
  • Arcury , T. , and E. Christianson . 1993 . Rural-urban differences in environmental knowledge and actions . J. Environ. Educ. 25 ( 1 ): 19 – 25 .
  • Arthington , A. , and B. Pusey . 2003 . Flow restoration and protection in Australian rivers . River Res. Appl. 19 : 377 – 395 .
  • Bauer , N. , A. Wallner , and M. Hunziker . 2009 . The change of European landscapes: Human–nature relationships, public attitudes towards rewilding, and the implications for landscape management in Switzerland . J. Environ. Manage. 90 : 2910 – 2920 .
  • Bennett , K. , and M. McBeth . 1998 . Contemporary western rural USA economic composition: Potential implications for environmental policy and research . Environ. Manage. 22 ( 3 ): 371 – 381 .
  • Berenguer , J. , J. Corraliza , and R. Martin . 2005. Rural-urban differences in environmental concern, attitudes, and actions. European J. Psychol. Assess. 21(2):128–138.
  • Bjornlund , H. 2010 . The competition for water: Striking a balance among social, environmental and economic needs . C. D. Howe Inst. Commentary 302 : 1 – 25 .
  • Bjornlund , H. 2002 . The socio-economic structure of irrigation communities—Water markets and the structural adjustment process . J. Rural Soc. 12 ( 2 ): 123 – 145 .
  • Bjornlund , H. , L. Nicol , and K. Klein . 2008 . Implementing Alberta's water for life strategy: An irrigation industry perspective . Prairie Forum 33 ( 1 ): 167 – 190 .
  • Brunson , M. , and J. Kennedy . 1995 . Redefining multiple use: Agency responses to changing social values . In A new century for natural resources management , ed. R. Knight , and S. Bates , 130 – 138 . Washington , DC : Island Press .
  • Buttel , F. , and W. Flinn . 1974 . The structure of support for the environmental movement, 1968–1970 . Rural Sociol. 39 : 56 – 69 .
  • Clement , J. , and A. Cheng . 2011 . Using analyses of public value orientations, attitudes and preferences to inform national forest planning in Colorado and Wyoming . Appl. Geogr. 31 : 393 – 400 .
  • Cummins , T. , and A. Watson . 2011 . A hundred year policy experiment: The Murray–Darling Basin in Australia . In Water policy reform: Lessons in sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin , ed. J. Quiggan , T. Mallawaarachchi , and S. Chambers , 9 – 36 . London , UK : Edward Elgar .
  • de Groot , J. , and L. Steg . 2008 . Value orientation to explain beliefs related to environmental significant behaviour: How to measure egoistic, altruistic and biospheric value orientations . Environ. Behav. 40 ( 3 ): 330 – 354 .
  • Dietz , T. , A. Fitzgerald , and R. Shwom . 2005 . Environmental values . Annu. Rev. Environ. Resources 30 : 335 – 372 .
  • Dietz , T. , P. Stern , and G. Guagnano . 1998 . Social structural and social psychological bases of environmental concern . Environ. Behav. 30 ( 4 ): 450 – 471 .
  • Dunlap , R. , K. Van Liere , A. Mertig , and R. Jones . 2000 . Measuring endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A revised NEP scale . J. Social Issues 56 ( 3 ): 425 – 442 .
  • Dunlap , R. , and K. Van Liere . 1978 . The New Environmental Paradigm: A proposed instrument and preliminary results . J. Environ. Educ. 9 : 10 – 19 .
  • Fitzhugh , T. , and B. Richter . 2004 . Urban thirst: Growing cities and their impacts on freshwater ecosystems . BioScience 54 ( 8 ): 741 – 754 .
  • Garrick , D. , M. Siebentritt , B. Aylward , C. Bauer , and A. Purkey . 2009 . Water markets and freshwater ecosystem services . Ecol. Econ. 69 : 366 – 379 .
  • Government of Alberta Municipal Affairs . 2012 . www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca (accessed 2 October 2012).
  • Graymore , M. , and A. Wallis . 2010 . Water savings or water efficiency—Water-use attitudes and behavior in rural and regional areas . J. Sustain. Dev. World Ecol. 17 ( 1 ): 84 – 93 .
  • Hadjigeorgalis , E. 2009 . A place for water markets: Performance and challenges . Rev. Agric. Econ. 31 ( 1 ): 50 – 67 .
  • Huddart-Kennedy , E. , T. Beckley , B. McFarlane , and S. Nadeau . 2009a . Why we don't “walk the talk”: Understanding the environmental values/behaviour gap in Canada . Hum. Ecol. Rev. 16 ( 2 ): 151 – 160 .
  • Huddart-Kennedy , E. , T. Beckley , B. McFarlane , and S. Nadeau . 2009b . Rural–urban differences in environmental concern in Canada . Rural Sociol. 74 ( 3 ): 309 – 329 .
  • et al. . 2007 . Outstanding research issues in integration and participation for water resource planning and management . In Topics on system analysis and integrated water resource management , ed. A. Castelletti and S. Soncini , 273 – 289 . Amsterdam , the Netherlands : Elsevier .
  • Jones , R. , M. Fly , J. Talley , and H. Cordell . 2003 . Green migration into rural America: The new frontier of environmentalism? Society Nat. Resources 16 : 221 – 238 .
  • Kahn , M. , and J. Matsusaka . 1997. Demand for environmental goods: Evidence from voting patterns on California initiatives. J. Law Econ. 40:137–174.
  • Kuehne , G. 2009 . The influence of values and attitudes towards family, land, water, community, lifestyle and profit on farmers’ behavior. PhD thesis, University of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia.
  • Kuehne , G. , and H. Bjornlund . 2010 . Non-profit maximizing values and attitudes influencing irrigators’ management response to new policy instruments . In Incentives and instruments for sustainable irrigation , ed. H. Bjornlund , 71 – 85 . Southampton , UK : WIT Press .
  • Kwasniak , A. 2010 . International perspective: Water scarcity and aquatic sustainability: Beyond policy limitations . Univ. Denver Water Law Rev. 13 : 321 – 360 .
  • Loch , A. , H. Bjornlund , and R. McIver . 2010 . An institutional critique of differing allocation models to deliver environmental flows: Case studies of Queensland and Victoria in Australia . Environ. Plan. C 29 : 745 – 760 .
  • Lowe , G. , and T. Pinhey . 1982 . Rural–urban differences in support for environmental protection . Rural Sociol. 47 : 114 – 128 .
  • McMillan , M. , T. Hoban , W. Clifford , and M. Brant . 1997 . Social and demographic influences on environmental attitudes . Southern Rural Sociol. 13 ( 1 ): 89 – 107 .
  • Milfont , T. , and J. Duckitt . 2010 . The environmental attitudes inventory: A valid and reliable measure to assess the structure of environmental attitudes . J. Environ. Psychol. 30 : 80 – 94 .
  • Morrison , D. 1986 . How and why environmental consciousness has trickled down . In Distributional conflict in environmental-resource policy , ed. A. Schnaiberg , N. Watts , and K. Zimmerman , 187 – 220 . New York , NY : St Martins .
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation, and Development . 1998 . Agriculture and the environment: Issues and policies . Paris , France : OECD .
  • Peterson , R. 1994 . The role of values in predicting fairness judgments and support of affirmative action . J. Social Issues 50 : 95 – 115 .
  • Poirier , B. , and R. de Loë . 2011 . Protecting aquatic ecosystems in heavily-allocated river systems: The case of the Oldman River Basin, Alberta . Can. Geogr. 55 ( 2 ): 243 – 261 .
  • Reimann , C. , P. Filzmoser , R. Garrett , and R. Dutter . 2008 . Statistical data analysis explained: Applied environmental statistics with R . West Sussex , England : John Wiley & Sons Ltd .
  • Rokeach , M. 1968 . Beliefs, attitudes, and values: A theory of organization and change . San Francisco , CA : Jossey-Bass .
  • Salka , W. 2001 . Urban–rural conflict over environmental policy in the western United States . Am. Rev. Public Admin. 31 ( 1 ): 33 – 48 .
  • Schultz , P. , and L. Zelezny . 1999 . Values as predictors of environmental attitudes: Evidence for consistency across 14 countries . J. Environ. Psychol. 19 : 255 – 265 .
  • Sharp , J. , and L. Adua . 2009 . The social basis of agro-environmental concern: Physical versus social proximity . Rural Sociol. 74 ( 1 ): 56 – 85 .
  • Steg , L. , J. DeGroot , L. Dreijerink , W. Abrahamse , and F. Siero . 2011 . General antecedents of personal norms, policy acceptability, and intentions—The role of values, worldviews, and environmental concern . Society Nat. Resources 24 ( 4 ): 349 – 367 .
  • Stein , T. , D. Anderson , and T. Kelly . 1999 . Using stakeholders’ values to apply ecosystem management in an upper midwest landscape . Environ. Manage. 24 ( 3 ): 399 – 413 .
  • Stern , P. , T. Dietz , and L. Kalof . 1993 . Value orientations, gender, and environmental concern . Environ. Behav. 25 ( 3 ): 322 – 348 .
  • Stern , P. , T. Dietz , L. Kalof , and G. Guagnano . 1995 . Values, beliefs and proenvironmental action: Attitude formation toward emergent attitude objects . J. Appl. Social Psychol. 25 ( 18 ): 1611 – 1636 .
  • Tremblay , K. , and R. Dunlap . 1978 . Rural–urban residence and concern with environmental quality: A replication and extension. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociology Society, Madison, WI, 1–4 September.
  • United Nations World Water Assessment Programme . 2003. Water for people, water for life: The United Nations world water development report . New York , NY : UNESCO Publishing.
  • Vera-Toscano , E. , J, Gómez-Limón. E, Moyano, and F. Garrido . 2008 . Factors determining citizen's attitudes towards agri-environmental property rights . Environ. Resource Econ. 41 : 541 – 561 .
  • Vugteveen , P. , H. Lenders , R. Van Der Veeren , M. Wiering , and A. Hendriks . 2010 . Stakeholder value orientations in water management . Society Nat. Resources 23 : 1 – 17 .
  • Wheeler , S. , D. Garrick , A. Loch , and H. Bjornlund . 2013 . Evaluating alternative water market products to acquire water for the environment in Australia . Land Use Policy 30 : 427 – 436 .
  • Wheeler , S. , A. Zuo , H. Bjornlund , and C. Lane Miller . 2012 . Selling the farm silver? Understanding water sales to the Australian government . Environ. Resource Econ. 52 : 133 – 154 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.