Closing the Gap: Communicating to Change Gardening Practices in Support of Native Biodiversity in Urban Private Gardens
Closing the Gap: Communicating to Change Gardening Practices in Support of Native Biodiversity in Urban Private Gardens
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缩小差距：沟通改变园艺实践，支持城市私人花园的本土生物多样性
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2012
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C. Freeman
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Y. Heezik;K. Dickinson;C. Freeman
私人花园共同构成了大多数城市最大的绿地，最有潜力增加野生动物友好型和原住民占主导地位的栖息地的范围，改善生态系统服务的质量，并为城市居民提供与自然重新联系的机会。由于推动园林景观偏好的态度和价值观是复杂的，往往不利于生物多样性，而且知识或价值观的拥有与亲环境行为的表达之间存在差距，促进园艺行为的改变是具有挑战性的。在花园生物多样性记录的过程中，我们试图通过双向交流过程或互动对话，提高55名户主的知识，并影响他们的价值观、态度和园艺行为，支持本土生物多样性和环境友好做法。还提供了关于其花园的信息反馈，并提供了一个标准组成部分。尽管在研究开始时对常见物种有很好的教育和知识，但在中发现了知识的增加和态度的转变：40%的住户报告对野生动物有了更多的了解，26%的住户对他们的花园进行了改变，13%的住户支持本地生物多样性。我们反馈信息的规范部分对20%的住户特别感兴趣。因为社区规范会影响园艺实践，所以一定比例的户主采取的改变应该在社区中永久存在。生物多样性评估、对话和反馈的过程有效地提高了对野生动物和本地物种的知识，并刺激了态度的转变，导致了对本地友好的园艺做法。这些变化主要是通过开放的自我报告问题发现的，而不是定量测量。
Private gardens collectively comprise the largest green space in most cities and the greatest potential for increasing the extent of wildlife-friendly and native-dominated habitat, improving the quality of ecosystem services, and providing opportunities for urban dwellers to reconnect with nature. Because attitudes and values driving landscape preferences in gardens are complex and often not conducive to biodiversity, and a gap exists between the possession of knowledge or values and the expression of pro-environmental behavior, facilitating change in gardening behavior is challenging. We attempted to improve knowledge and influence values, attitudes, and gardening behavior of 55 householders in favor of native biodiversity and environmentally friendly practices, through a two-way communication process, or interactive dialog, during a process of biodiversity documentation of their gardens. Informative feedback on their garden with a normative component was also provided. Despite being well educated and knowledgeable about common species at the start of the study, an increase in knowledge and shift in attitude was detected in 64% of householders: 40% reported a greater understanding of wildlife, and 26% made changes in their gardens, 13% to support native biodiversity. The normative component of our feedback information was of particular interest to 20% of householders. Because neighborhood norms influence gardening practices, changes adopted by a proportion of householders should be perpetuated across neighborhoods. The process of biodiversity assessment, dialog, and feedback was effective in improving knowledge of wildlife and native species, and stimulated a shift in attitude that resulted in native-friendly gardening practices. These changes were detected primarily through open self-report questions, rather than quantitative measures.