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Exploring links between policy preferences for water reallocation and beliefs, values, attitudes, and social norms in Alberta, Canada

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dc.contributor.authorRussenberger, M.
dc.contributor.authorBjornlund, H.
dc.contributor.authorXu, W.
dc.contributor.editorPepper, D.W.
dc.contributor.editorBrebbia, C.A.
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractIn many semarid regions, total water allocations exceed levels avilable for extraction. Despite growing demand for water from urban and environmental uses, the majority of these allocations are held by agricultutal users. In order to meet new demand in the face of uncertian water supple, water must be reallocated from irrigation to urban and environmental uses; however, such reallocation faces stiff oppostion from irrigators and non-irrigators alike. Although irrigators have disproportionate power over the reallocation process, the preferences of no-irrigators with greater electoral power and contributions to tax revenue are also important to policy makers. This study explores these issues based on extensive surveys of non-irrigators in Alberta, Canada. Values, beliefs, and attitudes are found to influence policy prefences differently. Policy makers and water managers should consider these psychological constructs when designing, marketing and implementing policies and mechanisms to reallocate water in accordance with the values of wider society.
dc.identifier.citationEvent/exhibition information: 1st International Conference on Water and Society (WS 2011), Las Vegas, United States, 05/12/2011-07/12/2011 Source details - Title: Water and society, 2011 / Pepper, D.W., Brebbia, C.A. (ed./s), vol.153, pp.107-118
dc.identifier.doi10.2495/WS110101
dc.identifier.isbn9781845645564
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/123223
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWIT Press
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.relation.fundingAlberta Water Research Institute
dc.relation.fundingCanadian Water Network
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, 153, 1746-448X
dc.rightsCopyright 2011 WIT Press
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.2495/WS110101
dc.subjectattitudes
dc.subjectbeliefs
dc.subjectenvironmental needs
dc.subjectrural urban differences
dc.subjectrural-urban transfers
dc.subjectsocial norms
dc.subjectvalues
dc.subjectwater reallocation
dc.titleExploring links between policy preferences for water reallocation and beliefs, values, attitudes, and social norms in Alberta, Canada
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9915909598601831

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