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Fishing businesses, women's entrepreneurship, and the performance of femininity
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Electrifying the road: Navigating the transition to electric vehicles in Connecticut through hybrid insights and fleet evolution
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A framework for understanding uptake of semi-natural habitat restoration schemes: general contributing factors, restoration issues, results-based approaches, and hay meadow restoration in Norway
Get PDFWith semi-natural habitats in Europe and Norway under pressure as a result of land use change and degradation there is currently an urgent need to understand what factors encourage stakeholders (both farmers and non-farmers) to participate in restoration schemes. This review contributes to this objective as part of the “Restoration of ecosystem functioning and biodiversity in semi-natural habitats under high pressure” project (RESTORE). It looks at four issues. Firstly, it explores the international literature on landowner engagement with agri-environmental schemes (within which restoration schemes fall) to identify factors that contribute to uptake of schemes. Four main areas emerged, namely: the characteristics of the farmer/farm family, the decision-making processes of the land manager, structural features of the farm, and the design of the scheme itself. Secondly, focusing on a much smaller body of literature, the review looks at issues relating specifically to restoration schemes to identify barriers to uptake and innovative ideas for promoting restoration emerging from the literature. Thirdly, the review looks briefly at results-based schemes, outlining in detail scheme design in the REAPs scheme and summarising the Burren scheme and its success. We examine semi-natural habitat restoration/management schemes in Norway, focusing on the Action Plan for Hay Meadows, and finally further knowledge needs in the topic. The report does not conclude by suggesting an ‘optimal’ scheme design, but rather provides (a) a resource for those interested in understanding how to design restoration schemes that are likely to receive a positive response from landowners, and (b) the conceptual basis for fieldwork in RESTORE and c) a contribution of further knowledge needs.A framework for understanding uptake of semi-natural habitat restoration schemes: general contributing factors, restoration issues, results-based approaches, and hay meadow restoration in NorwaypublishedVersio
