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Testing Modified Sense of Place Measures on Working Landscapes in Iowa
Department: Sociology
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Elizabeth Bennett
Idaho State University
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10/5/2021
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City: Pocatello
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Sense of place (SOP) has been used on amenity landscapes to understand pro-environmental behavior. On working landscapes, SOP has not been a valid or reliable predictor of conservation behavior. In response to the troubles identified with SOP on working landscapes, Eaton et al. (2019) suggested several conceptual and measurement solutions. In this study, we test the modified SOP measures, along with the addition of scales of responsibility and good farmer identity, to explore the relationship between the multiple dimensions of SOP and conservation behavior. We used data from the 2017 Iowa Farm & Rural Life Poll and a Bayesian logistic regression. We show that physical dependence and economic dependence are distinct dimensions of SOP on working landscapes and find support for the addition of a scalar component. Our results suggest that SOP has the potential to be predictive of conservation behavior on working landscapes, but requires further reconceptualization and testing. Keywords: Good farmer identity, economic dependence, agricultural land, cover crops

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