Assessing motivations and policy instruments for biodiversity actions

Citizens and farmers struggle with translating the global biodiversity crisis into imminent concerns they can identify and act on in their local livelihood. The project analyses how citizens and farmers may be engaged to explore this crisis in a familiar environment – their own garden and farmland. We analyse how beliefs and behaviours transform to biodiversity and climate action. We track adapted gardening and cultivation practices, the required mindsets and skillsets, their effects on biodiversity indicators, and how these practices are promoted by dedicated policy instruments as in the EU Common Agricultural Program.

Aligned with HE cluster 6 priorities, the project addresses calls for counteracting biodiversity loss as stated in e.g. the 2022 UN biodiversity conference and the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. We develop data-driven recommendations to policymakers, sustainability NGOs, gardening associations, or chambers of agriculture.

 Our expertise:

·        Surveys, interviews and similar social sciences methods for measuring motivations, risk beliefs and implementation

·        Policy assessment for linking instrument design with observable outcomes and impacts