18 results on '"Strategische Communicatie"'
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2. When is green nudging ethically permissible?
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Tyler DesRoches, C., Fischer, Daniel, Silver, Julia, Arthur, Philip, Livernois, Rebecca, Crichlow, Timara, Hersch, Gil, Nagatsu, Michiru, and Abbott, Joshua K.
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Behavioral Economics ,Ethics ,Nudge ,Strategic Communication ,General Social Sciences ,Strategische Communicatie ,Green Nudge ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
This review article provides a new perspective on the ethics of green nudging. We advance a new model for assessing the ethical permissibility of green nudges (GNs). On this model, which provides normative guidance for policymakers, a GN is ethically permissible when the intervention is (1) efficacious, (2) cost-effective, and (3) the advantages of the GN (i.e. reducing the environmental harm) are not outweighed by countervailing costs/harms (i.e. for nudgees). While traditional ethical objections to nudges (paternalism, etc.) remain potential normative costs associated with GNs, any such costs must be weighed against the injunction to reduce environmental harm to third parties.
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- 2023
3. The enabling and constraining connections between trust and digitalisation in incumbent value chains
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Rijswijk, Kelly, de Vries, Jasper R., Klerkx, Laurens, and Turner, James A.
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Strategic Communication ,WASS ,Digitisation ,Strategische Communicatie ,Innovation- and Risk Management and Information Governance ,Trust ,Co-opetition ,Collaboration ,Digital transformation ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Technologie and Innovatie ,Knowledge Technology and Innovation ,Kennis ,Business and International Management ,Kennis, Technologie and Innovatie ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
Digitalisation is a disruptive socio-technical process that goes beyond digital technologies and their use within an organisation, and involves besides (in many cases radical) technological change, social, institutional and economic change. This creates uncertainties for value chain actors and the trust relationships between them. In this paper we aim to understand the connections between trust and digitalisation. We investigate how trust relations affect digitalisation, and how digitalisation affects trust relations among value chain actors, using the Dutch flower sector as a case study. Our findings show that the sector has a high level of interpersonal trust, but limited institutional trust, as the relationships between companies are highly competitive and transactional. In this context, limited trust hinders digitalisation in multiple and mutually reinforcing ways, inducing a vicious cycle whereby existing distrust or limited trust results in limited digitalisation, which in turn causes more distrust due to uncertainties around the digitalisation process, further increased by existing (technological) path dependencies. Hence there is a need for 1) awareness of mutually reinforcing (dis)trust dynamics and vicious (or virtuous) cycles in relation to digitalisation are needed; 2) higher levels of understanding of what digitalisation entails and 3) joint strategy building and foresighting in the value chain.
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- 2023
4. The Food Waste Lab: Improving food waste reduction behavior through education
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Mariam, Nikravech, Nina, Langen, Fabian, Bendisch, Florence, Ziesemer, Simone, Abels, Ulf, Schrader, and Daniel, Fischer
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Strategic Communication ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Strategy and Management ,Didactics of sciences education ,Building and Construction ,Educational intervention ,Strategische Communicatie ,Household food waste ,Sustainability sciences, Communication ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Climate change ,Food waste reduction ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
Research has demonstrated the relevance of addressing food waste (FW) in private households in mitigating climate change. There is, however, little research on the potential of educational interventions in school settings to reduce this household FW. This paper explores the potential of education to positively shape 9th to 11th graders' behavioral determinants regarding FW reduction, and offers insights into the potential to develop FW reduction strategies. The FW-related educational intervention (“Food Waste Lab”) engaged the participants (n = 81) in the development and application of FW reduction strategies at home. There was a significant reduction in FW reported over time. However, this reduction cannot necessarily be attributed to the reduction strategies, but may be a result of decreasing engagement in FW measurement activities. The main contribution of the intervention was increased awareness among participants of FW as a driver of climate change. Participation in the Food Waste Lab increased the likelihood of participants using taste as a judgment criterion of edibility, and eating up leftovers. No significant changes could be identified with regard to food literacy and Theory of Planned Behavior constructs. Unexpectedly, the perceived feasibility of the FW reduction goals decreased over time. This study provides recommendations to correct this shortcoming. Notably, highlighting the ease of reducing FW at home is key to increasing the perceived feasibility of this goal and motivating participants to engage in FW reduction. Focusing on a specific behavior related to the use of leftovers is relevant when designing an intervention targeted to adolescents. Nevertheless, the study's limitations indicate that the future intervention design should consider reactance and fatigue as important constraints in educational interventions involving FW measures. Finally, this study calls for more robust experimental designs to evaluate the impact of various FW reduction interventions.
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- 2022
5. Discursive translations of gender mainstreaming norms: The case of agricultural and climate change policies in Uganda
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Margit van Wessel, Laurence Jassogne, Mariola Acosta, Edidah L. Ampaire, Peter H. Feindt, and Severine van Bommel
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Norm translation ,Strategic Communication ,Sociology and Political Science ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,WASS ,Transformational potential ,02 engineering and technology ,Strategische Communicatie ,Development ,Education ,Hybridity ,Political science ,050602 political science & public administration ,Uganda ,Resizing ,media_common ,Food security ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Gender mainstreaming ,0506 political science ,Norm domestication ,Transformational leadership ,Agriculture ,Political economy ,Norm (social) ,business - Abstract
While the international norm on gender mainstreaming, UN-backed since 1995, has been widely adopted in national policies, gender inequalities are rarely systematically addressed on the ground. To explain this limited effectiveness, this paper takes a discourse analytical perspective on gender policy and budgeting, with a focus on the translation of the international norm into domestic norms and policies. An in-depth, inductive analysis of 107 policy documents in Uganda examines how the gender mainstreaming norm has been translated at three administrative levels: national, district, sub-county. The analysis finds five processes that reduce the norm's transformational potential: neglecting gender discourse, gender inertia, shrinking gender norms, embracing discursive hybridity and minimizing budgets. Overall, gender mainstreaming largely stopped at the discursive level, and often paradoxically depoliticized gender. The findings explain why gender mainstreaming might be helpful but not sufficient for advancing gender equality and suggest additional focus on promising practices, women's rights movements and stronger monitoring.
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- 2019
6. Exploring how social capital and learning are related to the resilience of Dutch arable farmers
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Slijper, Thomas, Urquhart, Julie, Poortvliet, P. Marijn, Soriano, Bárbara, and Meuwissen, Miranda
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S1 ,Strategic Communication ,Bedrijfseconomie ,Learning, Social capital, Resilience Robustness, Adaptation, Transformation ,WASS ,Strategische Communicatie ,Resilience Robustness ,Transformation ,Social capital ,Business Economics ,Learning ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Adaptation ,SB ,Agronomy and Crop Science - Abstract
CONTEXT\ud Enhancing farm resilience has become a key policy objective of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to help farmers deal with numerous interrelated economic, environmental, social, and institutional shocks and stresses. A central theme in resilience thinking is the role of the unknown, implying that knowledge is incomplete and that change, uncertainty, and surprise are inevitable. Important strategies to enhance resilience are exploiting social capital and learning as these contribute to improved knowledge to prepare farmers for change.\ud \ud OBJECTIVE\ud This paper explores how social capital and learning relate to farm resilience along the dimensions of robustness, adaptation, and transformation.\ud \ud METHODS\ud We study the resilience of Dutch arable farmers from the Veenkoloniën and Oldambt using a combination of four methods. Qualitative data from semi-structured farmer interviews, focus groups, and expert interviews are combined with quantitative data from farmer surveys. The qualitative data are analysed using thematic coding. Non-parametric tests are used to analyse the quantitative data. Based on methodological triangulation, we mostly find convergence in our qualitative and quantitative datasets increasing the validity of our findings.\ud \ud RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS\ud The results reveal that social capital and learning help farmers to adapt and are, in certain cases, also related to robustness and transformations. Robust farmers often learned by exploiting farmers' informal social networks, primarily relying on bonding social capital to acquire knowledge about agriculture or develop financial skills. Farmers undertaking adaptation are characterised by bonding and bridging social capital obtained by formal and informal networks, are early adopters of innovation, and have high self-efficacy. Combinations of bridging and linking social capital from formal networks could foster farmers to learn new ideas and critically reflect on current farm business models. These learning outcomes relate to farm transformations.\ud \ud SIGNIFICANCE\ud This study provides some early results on the dynamic relationship between farmers' social capital and learning and how these concepts are associated with resilience. Our findings are relevant for agricultural policy makers, as we provide recommendations on how social capital and learning have some potential to facilitate farm adaptation and transformation and improve information exchange in Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS).
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- 2022
7. The persuasiveness of gain vs. loss framed messages on farmers’ perceptions and decisions to climate change: A case study in coastal communities of Vietnam
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Chinh Cong Ngo, P. Marijn Poortvliet, and Laurens Klerkx
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Construal level ,Atmospheric Science ,Global and Planetary Change ,Farmers ,Strategic Communication ,Geography, Planning and Development ,WASS ,Strategische Communicatie ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Meteorology. Climatology ,Technologie and Innovatie ,Knowledge Technology and Innovation ,Gain vs. loss framing ,Climate change ,Kennis ,QC851-999 ,Adaptation ,Kennis, Technologie and Innovatie - Abstract
Ongoing climate change results in a large increase in damaging climatic events that affect people’s health, environment, biodiversity, and food security. One of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change is agriculture because farming relies heavily on planning for weather and seasons according to experience of past years, and therefore changes in seasons and unusual weather patterns lead to loss of crops or livestock. Responding to climate change impacts requires both mitigation and adaptation, in which communication plays an important role to raise awareness, change behaviours and gain policy support. Gain vs. loss message framing has been extensively studied in persuasive communication. Despite successful examples in risk communication, the effect of gain vs. loss message framing method in communicating climate change, a psychologically distant risk, is still not well understood. This study combines message persuasiveness with psychological distance to develop messages to encourage farmers on climate adaptation. We applied a 2 × 2 factorial design (gain/loss and abstract/concrete framed messages) and conducted the research in a coastal farming community (N = 368). Findings confirm that gain-framed messages are more effective in raising risk perceptions and efficacy, with stronger impact on behavioural intentions toward climate change, compared to loss-framed messages. Above all, farmers were more willing to take adaptation measures when exposed to gain- in combination with concrete-framed messages vs. loss- and abstract-framed. Implications for climate change communication research and practice are discussed.
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- 2022
8. Understanding public trust in water managers: Findings from the Netherlands
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Raoul Beunen, Jasper R. de Vries, Remko Voogd, RS-Research Line Innovation (part of LIRSS program), and Department of Environmental Sciences
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Risk perception ,Environmental Engineering ,Public Administration ,Strategic Communication ,Information exchange ,media_common.quotation_subject ,WILLINGNESS ,WASS ,COMMUNICATION ,DETERMINANTS ,Strategische Communicatie ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Empirical research ,water governance ,RISK PERCEPTIONS ,Humans ,Quality (business) ,MEDIATOR ,Marketing ,Waste Management and Disposal ,Netherlands ,media_common ,Government ,CLIMATE-CHANGE ,Distrust ,Public trust ,Corporate governance ,Water ,GOVERNANCE ,trust ,General Medicine ,POLICY ,Floods ,SOCIAL TRUST ,Flood control ,Water management ,Water quality ,RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT ,Business - Abstract
Public trust in water managers is often considered an important precondition for the effective implementation of sustainable water-management practices. Although it is well known that general public trust in government institutions is under pressure, much less is known in the literature on water governance whether such distrust also affects general and task-specific trust of the wider public in water managers. In addition, empirical studies on the determinants of such trust seem to be scarce. To fill those gaps, this study aims to measure general and task-specific public trust in water managers in the Netherlands and to assess how a selected group of potential determinants is related to general- and task-specific trust in water managers. To this end, we employ an original survey among a representative sample of the Dutch population (N = 2262). We find that trust in water managers in the Netherlands is generally high, but that it also comes with some task-specific variations. People have more trust in the flood-protection capacities of the water managers than in the capacities to successfully manage surface-water quality, nature conservation, and drought management. Using linear regression models, we subsequently find that individual-level variations in trust in water managers are best explained by one's general level of political trust. Additionally, we also show that both risk perceptions and self-evaluations of how informed people feel themselves about water management are important factors with (curvilinear) relations with trust in water managers. Overall, we conclude that water managers are under specific conditions able to build themselves well-established reputations and relatively high trust levels based on their performances. Nevertheless, trust development is far from entirely in the hands of the water managers themselves as we also conclude that trust evaluations of water managers are not immune from negative generalized political evaluations and public perceptions on water related risks.
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- 2021
9. Is the success of the SLIMMER diabetes prevention intervention modified by socioeconomic status? A randomised controlled trial
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Edith J. M. Feskens, Gerrit J Hiddink, Annemien Haveman-Nies, Sophia C Jansen, Andrea J. Bukman, Josien ter Beek, and Geerke Duijzer
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Male ,Gerontology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Waist ,Nutrition and Disease ,Strategic Communication ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,WASS ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,Type 2 diabetes ,Strategische Communicatie ,Logistic regression ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Endocrinology ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Voeding en Ziekte ,Diabetes mellitus ,Type 2 diabetes mellitus ,Internal Medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Socioeconomic status ,VLAG ,Human Nutrition & Health ,Global Nutrition ,Wereldvoeding ,Combined lifestyle intervention ,business.industry ,Prevention ,Humane Voeding & Gezondheid ,Attendance ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Real-world setting ,Health promotion ,Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ,Social Class ,Physical therapy ,Female ,business ,Risk Reduction Behavior - Abstract
Aim To explore the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in participation, programme attendance, programme acceptability, adherence to lifestyle guidelines, drop-out, and effectiveness in the SLIMMER diabetes prevention intervention. Methods SLIMMER was a randomised controlled intervention, carried out in a real-world setting, targeting 40- to 70-year-old adults at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes (n = 316). The intervention group participated in a 10-month combined dietary and physical activity programme. Measurements were carried out at baseline, 12 months, and 18 months. Effectiveness was determined for fasting insulin, HbA1c, weight, BMI, waist circumference, and waist-to-height-ratio. Differences between the low SES (no, primary, or lower secondary school) and higher SES group were tested using logistic regression and ANCOVA. Results Fifty-two percent of the SLIMMER participants had a low SES. No differences in participation were observed between the low and higher SES group. The most important reason for non-participation in the low SES group was ‘lack of interest’ (32%), whereas in the higher SES group this was ‘I already exercise enough’ (31%). Attendance, acceptability, adherence, drop-out, and effectiveness after 12 months were similar in the low and higher SES group. After 18 months, the low SES group seemed to maintain slightly better effects for fasting insulin, HbA1c, and waist circumference. Conclusions The current study showed that participation, attendance, acceptability, adherence, drop-out, and effectiveness of the SLIMMER intervention were in general not modified by socioeconomic status. The SLIMMER intervention can contribute to health promotion for individuals in both low and higher socioeconomic groups.
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- 2017
10. Conceptualizations of water security in the agricultural sector: Perceptions, practices, and paradigms
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Dariush Hayati, Noelle Aarts, and Atefe Malekian
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Strategic Communication ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,media_common.quotation_subject ,WASS ,Agricultural sector ,Strategische Communicatie ,Constructivism ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Constructivist teaching methods ,Order (exchange) ,Constructivism (philosophy of education) ,Farm water ,Critical theory ,Environmental planning ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Water Science and Technology ,media_common ,Positivism ,Critical security studies ,business.industry ,Management science ,Negotiation ,Water security ,Agriculture ,Business - Abstract
Conceptions of agricultural water security are conditioned by larger understandings of being and reality. It is still unclear what such understandings mean for perspectives on water security in general and on causes and solutions related to perceived water security risks and problems in agricultural sector in particular. Based on a systematic literature review, three conceptualizations of water security, related to different paradigms, are presented. Also the consequences of such conceptualizations for determining research objectives, research activities, and research outcomes on agricultural water security are discussed. The results showed that agricultural water security from a positivist paradigm referred to tangible and measurable water-related hazards and threats, such as floods and droughts, pollution, and so forth. A constructivist approach to agricultural water security, constituted by a process of interaction and negotiation, pointed at perceptions of water security of farmers and other stakeholders involved in agricultural sector. A critical approach to agricultural water security focused on the processes of securing vulnerable farmers and others from wider political, social, and natural impediments to sufficient water supplies. The conclusions of the study suggest that paradigms, underlying approaches should be expressed, clarified, and related to one another in order to find optimal and complementary ways to study water security issues in agricultural sector.
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- 2017
11. Why we need resilience thinking to meet societal challenges in bio-based production systems
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Lan Ge, Ingrid D. E. van Dixhoorn, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Niels P. R. Anten, Rik Leemans, Koen Kramer, Peter H. Feindt, Hans A.M. Spoolder, and Wijnand Sukkel
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Engineering ,Strategic Communication ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Bos- en Landschapsecologie ,Bedrijfseconomie ,Vulnerability ,WASS ,Strategische Communicatie ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Adaptability ,Staf Directieraad ,Dierenwelzijn en gezondheid ,Business Economics ,Effects of global warming ,Life Science ,Production (economics) ,Forest and Landscape Ecology ,Animal Health & Welfare ,Resilience (network) ,Productivity ,Vegetatie ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science ,media_common ,WIMEK ,Vegetation ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,General Social Sciences ,PE&RC ,Innovation- and Risk Management and Information Governance ,OT Team Bedrijfssyst.onderz./Bodemkwaliteit ,Environmental Systems Analysis ,Risk analysis (engineering) ,Social system ,Milieusysteemanalyse ,WIAS ,Vegetatie, Bos- en Landschapsecologie ,Socio-ecological system ,Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology ,Crop and Weed Ecology ,business - Abstract
The need to feed an increasing world population and to respond to the effects of climate change creates unprecedented challenges for bio-based production systems. Many of these systems have been designed to maximize productivity and efficiency under standard conditions, increasing their vulnerability to changes in their surrounding natural, technological and social systems. Reviewing the recent literature and reflecting on current research, we find that dominant attempts to increase production focus on maximizing control, while insufficient attention has been paid to system resilience, adaptability and transformability. These three core aspects of resilience thinking aim to reduce system vulnerability. We therefore argue for stronger adoption of resilience thinking into research on bio-based production systems. We show how applying resilience thinking helps to address both the production and the vulnerability challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-fertilization.
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- 2016
12. Negotiating autonomy in capacity development: Addressing the inherent tension
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Nandini Deo, Margit van Wessel, and B. Rajeshwari
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Economics and Econometrics ,Civil society ,Strategic Communication ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,WASS ,Context (language use) ,Strategische Communicatie ,Development ,Feminism ,Narrative ,Empirical research ,Sociology ,Autonomy ,media_common ,Informal processes ,business.industry ,Capacity development ,Public relations ,Negotiation ,General partnership ,business ,Meaning (linguistics) - Abstract
A central goal of capacity development is transforming participants into autonomous agents. However, there is often an inherent tension between capacity development and autonomy because capacity development programs are frequently set up to fill an externally predefined lack in capacity. In this article, we argue that this tension can be addressed when capacity development is set up to advance what we call “narrative autonomy” ( Williams, 1997 ). Narrative autonomy centers on individuals’ narrative interpretations as they reveal or create the meaning of their own identity and situation, creatively draw on available materials, and discern courses of action true to these interpretations. The advancement of narrative autonomy requires certain capacities and conditions. Expanding on existing participatory approaches that focus on capacity development occurring within relationships and informal processes, we show how capacity development programs can be set up to advance these capacities and conditions through the intricate relations between formal and informal processes. We illustrate our theoretical claims through an empirical study of a capacity development partnership program involving a feminist Delhi-based civil society organization and seven local partner organizations in the state of Jharkhand. This program targeted women who had been elected to village councils. We show how the program advanced elected women representatives’ narrative autonomy through informal relationships that undergirded formal capacity development, and how the formal training helped to provide a language for constructing these narratives and a context conducive to advancing autonomous action that was true to the women’s narratives. By redefining the relationship between autonomy and capacity development, we move the theoretical debate beyond problematizing the aid-dependency power relations often seen in capacity development programs and provide a way forward for practice.
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- 2020
13. Healthy is (not) tasty? Implicit and explicit associations between food healthiness and tastiness in primary school-aged children and parents with a lower socioeconomic position
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Gerry Jager, Amy van der Heijden, Hedwig te Molder, and Cees de Graaf
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Strategic Communication ,Socioeconomic position ,030309 nutrition & dietetics ,Primary school-aged children ,WASS ,Strategische Communicatie ,Developmental psychology ,Lower socioeconomic position ,03 medical and health sciences ,0404 agricultural biotechnology ,Everyday life ,Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour ,VLAG ,0303 health sciences ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,School age child ,Implicit association ,Dietary intake ,Food tastiness ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Food bank ,Explicit associations ,Implicit associations ,040401 food science ,Sensoriek en eetgedrag ,Food healthiness ,Unhealthy eating ,Psychology ,Food Science ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Many people implicitly (automatically) believe that unhealthy foods are tastier than healthy foods, even when they explicitly (deliberately) report that they don't. It is unclear whether this ‘unhealthy = tasty intuition’ is already present in childhood. Children from families with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP) consume poorer diets than children from families with a higher SEP. Paradoxically, populations with a lower SEP are underrepresented in research and least reached by lifestyle interventions. This study explored implicit and explicit associations between healthiness, tastiness and liking of foods in primary school-aged children and parents with a lower SEP. These associations and an estimate of dietary intake were assessed with implicit association tests and paper-and-pencil questionnaires, developed and adapted specifically for this target group. Participants were recruited at Dutch food banks. Results of 37 parent-child dyads indicated that children and parents implicitly associated healthy foods and tastiness more strongly with each other than healthy foods and not tasty (D = −0.19, p =.03 and D = −0.46, p
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- 2020
14. Governance and the coastal condition: Towards new modes of observation, adaptation and integration
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Natașa Văidianu, Kristof Van Assche, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, and Achim Schlüter
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0106 biological sciences ,Economics and Econometrics ,Strategic Communication ,Climate change ,Observation ,Strategische Communicatie ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Aquatic Science ,01 natural sciences ,Argument ,Deep knowledge ,Policy integration ,Land based ,Adaptation ,Adaptation (computer science) ,Environmental planning ,Internal logic ,General Environmental Science ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Corporate governance ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,040102 fisheries ,Evolutionary governance theory ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,The Conceptual Framework ,Coastal governance ,Business ,Law - Abstract
The conceptual framework of evolutionary governance theory (EGT) is deployed and extended to rethink the idea of coastal governance and the possibilities of a coastal governance better adapted to challenges of climate change and intensified use of both land and sea. ‘The coastal condition’ is analysed as a situation where particular modes of observation and coordination were possible and necessary, and those observations (and derived calculations of risk and opportunity) are valuable for the governance of both land and sea. An argument is constructed for a separate arena for coastal governance, without erasing the internal logic of pre-existing governance for land and sea. This entails that coastal governance is destined to be a place of (productive) conflict, as much as of policy integration. Policy integration will be more difficult and more important in coastal governance, as this is an arena where the effects of many land based activities and activities at sea become visible and entangled. Policy integration in coastal governance does, however, require deep knowledge of the governance path and existing forms of integration there (e.g. in planning), and it exists in an uneasy tension with the requirements of adaptive governance. This tension further contributes to the complexity and complex-prone character of coastal governance. Neither complexity nor conflict can be avoided, and coastal governance as an image of balanced decision-making is (positively) presented as a productive fiction.
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- 2020
15. Active and non-active video gaming among Dutch adolescents: Who plays and how much?
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Johannes Brug, Emely de Vet, Jaap Seidell, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Monique Simons, Epidemiology and Data Science, Public and occupational health, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Prevention and Public Health, Health Sciences, and EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes
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Male ,obesity ,Cross-sectional study ,Psychological intervention ,WASS ,LS - Life Style ,Logistic regression ,computer.software_genre ,Video games ,prevention ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,physical-activity ,Netherlands ,youth ,Multimedia ,Exergames ,Health ,Female ,Psychology ,Healthy Living ,Video gaming ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Strategic Communication ,Adolescent ,Sedentary lifestyle ,Physical activity ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Strategische Communicatie ,Behavioural Changes ,children ,medicine ,Humans ,Exercise ,interventions ,Demography ,games ,behavior ,Public health ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Video Games ,ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences ,Healthy for Life ,human activities ,computer - Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The aim of study was to determine prevalence and identify demographic correlates of active and non-active gaming among adolescents.DESIGN: Cross-sectional.METHODS: A survey, assessing game behavior and correlates, was conducted among adolescents (12-16 years, n = 373), recruited via schools. Multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine demographic correlates of active gaming (≥ 1 h per week) and non-active gaming (>7h per week).RESULTS: Of all participants (n=373), 3% reported to play exclusively active games, 40% active games and non-active games, 40% exclusively non-active games, and 17% not playing video games at all. Active gaming adolescents played active games on average on 1.5 (sd = 1.2) days per school week for 36 (sd = 32.9)min and 1 (sd = 0.54) day per weekend for 42 (sd = 36.5)min. Non-active gaming adolescents played on average on 3.3 (sd = 1.6) days per school week for 65 (sd = 46.0)min and 1.4 (sd = 0.65) days per weekend for 80 (sd = 50.8)min. Adolescents attending lower levels of education were more likely to play active games ≥ 1 h per week than adolescents attending higher educational levels. Boys and older adolescents were more likely to play non-active games >7h per week, than girls or younger adolescents.CONCLUSIONS: Many adolescents play active games, especially those following a lower educational level, but time spent in this activity is relatively low compared to non-active gaming. To be feasible as a public health strategy, active gaming interventions should achieve more time is spent on active gaming at the expense of non-active gaming.
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- 2014
16. Spill-over effect in media framing: Representations of wildlife conservation in Zimbabwean and international media, 1989–2010
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Severine van Bommel, Sylvie Sprangers, Herbert H. T. Prins, Edson Gandiwa, Ignas M. A. Heitkönig, and Cees Leeuwis
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Strategic Communication ,coverage ,WASS ,Strategische Communicatie ,Indigenous ,Newspaper ,Politics ,gonarezhou national-park ,Environmental protection ,Political science ,campfire ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Wildlife conservation ,abundance ,Ecology ,government ,Unrest ,PE&RC ,bushmeat trade ,Audience measurement ,Framing (social sciences) ,africa ,katrina ,Wildlife Ecology and Conservation ,disaster ,Political economy ,Technologie and Innovatie ,Knowledge Technology and Innovation ,Kennis ,Kennis, Technologie and Innovatie ,Land reform ,management - Abstract
Myths and metaphors that occur in media frames play an important role in influencing public perceptions of an issue in times of war, political conflict, crisis and disaster. This, in turn, influences policy makers and (inter)national assistance and aid programmes. We investigated whether a metaphoric spill-over of frames used in connection with political events could explain the misrepresentation in the framing of wildlife conservation. Zimbabwe experienced a severe political conflict and economic downturn in 2000 when land reforms took place. We analyzed newspaper articles on Zimbabwe's wildlife conservation published between 1989 and 2010 from newspapers in Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. We selected three issues about wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe in the local and international media, namely, the ivory ban, rhino protection, and Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources to investigate the spill-over effect. Our results show that in the 1990s, the majority of newspaper articles highlighted that wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe was largely successful. However, two major changes occurred after 2000 following the land reforms in Zimbabwe. First, the international media showed little interest in wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe as evidenced by a sharp decline in published articles and second, the frames changed in the international media with the “political unrest and land reform” blame frame becoming more dominant. This transition in reporting, frames, and low frame parity shows that there was a spill-over effect of political frames into wildlife conservation following Zimbabwe's land reforms in 2000. Metaphoric spill-over effects may thus create myths in the readership, in turn influencing policy-derived actions in a sector that is not or poorly related to the actual disaster. Keywords Framing; Land reform; Metaphors; Nature conservation
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- 2014
17. Behavioural strategies to control the amount of food selected and consumed
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Elizabeth Velema, Jacob C. Seidell, Ingrid H M Steenhuis, Maartje P. Poelman, Emely de Vet, Epidemiology and Data Science, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Prevention and Public Health, Health Sciences, and EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes
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Male ,Health Behavior ,WASS ,Overweight ,Body Mass Index ,healthy women ,Food intake ,Reference Values ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Weight management ,Medicine ,older-adults ,Young adult ,Psychology(all) ,General Psychology ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,obesity epidemic ,Middle Aged ,television ,Justice and Strong Institutions ,Frequent use ,Overconsumption ,Patient Satisfaction ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Social psychology ,Adult ,weight-control behaviors ,SDG 16 - Peace ,Strategic Communication ,Control (management) ,Environment ,Strategische Communicatie ,Environmental health ,Humans ,Obesity ,consumption ,business.industry ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,Feeding Behavior ,portion size ,young-adults ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,meal intake ,Energy Intake ,energy-intake ,business ,Body mass index ,Food environment ,Behavioural strategies - Abstract
Several factors within the food environment may stimulate overconsumption. The present study aimed to (1) identify behavioural strategies to cope with this environment to control the amount of food consumed, (2) examine the feasibility and usefulness of the strategies, and (3) evaluate the association between the strategies and body mass index (BMI). After the literature was screened for evidence of factors that contribute to the consumption of large amounts of food, 32 behavioural strategies were identified to overcome these influences (study 1). Subjectively reported feasibility and usefulness of the 32 behavioural strategies in weight management were explored using a pretest post-test study (study 2: n=. 52). Additionally, two cross-sectional questionnaire studies (study 3a: n=. 120 and study 3b: n=. 278) were conducted to evaluate the association between the 32 behavioural strategies and BMI. The strategies were subjectively reported as feasible and useful in weight management. Frequent use of strategies discriminated non-overweight from overweight individuals, but did not discriminate overweight from obese individuals. In conclusion, the findings provided preliminary evidence for the acceptability and validity of the strategies. The effectiveness of the strategies for controlling the amount consumed should be further investigated, especially in overweight and obese participants. © 2013 The Authors.
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- 2014
18. Illegal hunting and law enforcement during a period of economic decline in Zimbabwe: A case study of northern Gonarezhou National Park and adjacent areas
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Herbert H. T. Prins, Cees Leeuwis, Edson Gandiwa, Anne Marike Lokhorst, and Ignas M. A. Heitkönig
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Strategic Communication ,local people ,Wildlife ,WASS ,Economic collapse ,Strategische Communicatie ,western serengeti ,communities adjacent ,Environmental protection ,wildlife consumption ,luangwa valley ,Bushmeat ,Socioeconomics ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Nature reserve ,Ecology ,south-africa ,National park ,Law enforcement ,Poaching ,central-africa ,PE&RC ,equatorial-guinea ,Geography ,nature-reserves ,Wildlife Ecology and Conservation ,Technologie and Innovatie ,Knowledge Technology and Innovation ,Kennis ,protected areas ,Protected area ,Kennis, Technologie and Innovatie - Abstract
Illegal hunting of wildlife, or top-down harvesting, is a major issue in today's society, particularly in tropical ecosystems. There has been widespread concern about increasing illegal hunting of wildlife in most conservation areas in Zimbabwe following the political instability and economic decline the country faced since 2000. In this study, we focused on the northern Gonarezhou National Park (GNP), a large and unfenced protected area, and adjacent communal areas in southern Zimbabwe. We hypothesised that illegal hunting activities would (1) be perceived to have increased due to economic collapse and (2) vary with law enforcement efforts. A total of 236 local residents from eight villages adjacent to the northern GNP were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires from December 2010 to May 2011, and law enforcement data for northern GNP between 2000 and 2010 were retrieved from the park law enforcement database. A total of 26 animal species were reportedly hunted. Bushmeat consumption and the need for local trade to raise income were reported as the main reasons behind illegal hunting. Contrary to the first hypothesis, the majority of respondents ( n = 156, 66%) reported that illegal hunting activities had declined between 2000 and 2010 largely due to increased park protection as also supported by law enforcement data. A total of 22 animal species were recorded as having been illegally hunted in northern GNP. The number of illegal hunters arrested declined with increased law enforcement efforts although the number of wire snares recovered and hunting dogs shot appeared to increase following increased law enforcement efforts. These results partly support the second hypothesis that illegal hunting activities would vary with law enforcement efforts.
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- 2013
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