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April 24-25, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada
JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2019 VOLUME 10 | DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-056 SCIENTIFIC TRACK| DAY 1
Behaviour matters:
Psychological
explanations for
recurring forest and land
fires in Indonesia
Bambang Trihadmojo
Northwestern University, USA
Recurring forest and land
fires in Indonesia are of
particular global concern and
have become an environmental
and humanitarian crisis. They
have caused multi-level (local
to global) and multi-sector (e.g.
Economics, Politics, Environment,
Livelihood and Public Health)
damage. Particularly, they have
generated significant carbon
emissions and are linked to a
tangible loss of forest cover,
undermining climate change
mitigation efforts and sustainable
forest management initiatives.
Anthropogenic sources, such as
clearing land through burning
(burning behaviour), is one key
underlying cause. While it has
been the remit of small-scale
subsistence agriculture for
millennia, burning behaviour is
now practiced by increasingly
diverse stakeholders (from
small-scale farmers to large
agribusiness companies) as a
means of land management,
often in already fragmented
and degraded landscapes.
In response, the Indonesian
government has pursued political
measures aimed at modifying
(in actuality, forbidding) burning
behaviour. Yet, policy outcomes
are underperforming and
Indonesia continues to grapple
with recurring fire events. Lack of
knowledge on the psychological
mechanisms behind burning
behaviour might underlie such
outcomes. Building upon theory
of planned behaviour (TPB),
norm activation model (NAM)
and past burning behaviour
(PBB), we examined possible
mechanisms through surveying
151 Indonesian small-scale
farmers. We identified attitudes,
norms, efficacy, awareness and
PBB as important psychological
drivers behind burning
behaviour. This finding offers
important psychological insight
for designing more effective,
nuanced and targeted policies/
interventions to mitigate and
prevent forest and land fires in
Indonesia.
Biography
Bambang Trihadmojo is a current Arryman
fellow at Buffett Institute, Northwestern
University, US. He also has a demonstrated
history of working in think tank industry.
His works span from human dimensions of
transboundary haze to human migration.
Beyond that, he has longstanding interests in
environmental behaviour and environmental
justice. His work currently focuses on
adaptative and resilient mode of productions
among rural households in Brazil and
Indonesia.