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The Impact of Training on Druze Entrepreneurs’ Attitudes Towards and Intended Behaviors Regarding Local Sustainability Governance: A Field Experiment at the Mount Carmel Biosphere Reserve

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  • Itai Beeri

    (School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel)

  • Dan Gottlieb

    (School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel
    Haifa Bay Municipal Association for Environmental Protection 31250, Haifa 3498838, Israel)

  • Ido Izhaki

    (Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel)

  • Tzipi Eshet

    (Natural Resources and Environmental Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel)

  • Noam Cohen

    (School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel)

Abstract

This article expands our understanding of biosphere reserve management by exploring the effect of green business-guidance training. Biosphere reserves promote conservation while enabling sustainable use by local communities, in keeping with the notion of local sustainability governance. In practice, however, many local communities regard biosphere reserves as an obstacle to their economic growth and prosperity, resulting in active resistance to them. Given this complexity, we ask whether green business-guidance training changes entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards and intended behaviors regarding local sustainability governance. To test this question empirically, we used action research and designed a before-and-after field experiment in the Mount Carmel Biosphere Reserve in Israel. Our findings suggest that green business-guidance training has a significant positive effect on entrepreneurs’ attitudes towards and intended behaviors regarding local sustainability governance and that biosphere reserve managements can improve local sustainability governance performance via training. We discuss our findings and suggest new paths for research in theory and practice.

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  • Itai Beeri & Dan Gottlieb & Ido Izhaki & Tzipi Eshet & Noam Cohen, 2020. "The Impact of Training on Druze Entrepreneurs’ Attitudes Towards and Intended Behaviors Regarding Local Sustainability Governance: A Field Experiment at the Mount Carmel Biosphere Reserve," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-19, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:11:p:4584-:d:367182
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