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Awareness, concern and willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours: public perceptions of invasive tree pests and pathogens in the UK
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Title: | Awareness, concern and willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours: public perceptions of invasive tree pests and pathogens in the UK |
Authors: | Urquhart, J Potter, C Barnett, J Fellenor, J Mumford, J Quine, CP Bayliss, H |
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | The growing incidence of invasive tree pest and disease outbreaks is recognised as a n increasing threat to ecosystem services and human wellbeing. Linked to global trade, human movement and climate change, a number of outbreaks have attracted high public and media attention. However, there is surprisingly little evidence characteris ing the nature of public attentiveness to the se events , nor how publics might respond to evolving outbreaks and the management actions taken. This paper presents findings from an online questionnaire involving 1 , 334 respondents nationally - representative of the Bri tish public to assess awareness , concern and willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours. D espite revealing low levels of awareness and knowledge, the results indicate that the British public is concern ed about the health of trees, forests and woodlands and is moderately willing to adopt biosecure behaviours. A key finding is that membership of environment al organisations and strong place identity are likely to engender higher awareness and levels of concern about tree pests and diseases. Further, those who v isit woodlands regularly are likely to be more aware than non - visitors, and gardeners are more likely to be concerned than non - gardeners. Women, older respondents, those with strong place identity and dependence, members of environmental organisations, woo dland visitors and gardeners were most likely to express a willingness to adopt biosecure behaviours. A comparison with findings from a survey conducted by the authors three years previously show s a decline over time in awareness , concern and willingness. |
Issue Date: | 19-Jun-2017 |
Date of Acceptance: | 29-May-2017 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46134 |
DOI: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1467-4 |
ISSN: | 1573-1464 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag (Germany) |
Start Page: | 2567 |
End Page: | 2582 |
Journal / Book Title: | Biological Invasions |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 9 |
Copyright Statement: | © The Author(s) 2017 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Sponsor/Funder: | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Funder's Grant Number: | BB/L012308/1 |
Keywords: | 05 Environmental Sciences 06 Biological Sciences Ecology |
Publication Status: | Published |
Appears in Collections: | Centre for Environmental Policy Faculty of Natural Sciences |