Okumah, M orcid.org/0000-0002-2937-8467, Yeboah, AS and Amponsah, O (2020) Stakeholders' willingness and motivations to support sustainable water resources management: Insights from a Ghanaian study. Conservation Science and Practice, 2 (3). e170. ISSN 2578-4854
Abstract
There is evidence that stakeholders' willingness and motivations to support sustainable river management strategies plays a crucial role in the success of water management policies. Earlier works have highlighted some of the drivers of stakeholders' willingness, however, the generalizability of much published research on this issue is problematic given that much of the research focuses on the Global North. By conducting in‐depth interviews and applying content analysis, this paper aimed at exploring stakeholders' willingness and motivations to support sustainable water resource management as well as what stakeholders would do to support sustainable management of water resources. Results show that stakeholders appear to be willing to support water protection measures due to a wide range of motivations. Therefore, policymakers may need to emphasize those motivations when encouraging the public and/or segments of the society to engage in sustainable water resource management practices.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Conservation Science and Practice published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | community engagement; Ghana; pro‐environmental behavior; stakeholder motivations; sustainable water resources management; water pollution; Wenchi |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2020 12:06 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/csp2.170 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155463 |