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1、SoilUseandManagementSoilUseandManagement,March2016,32,36–44doi:10.1111/sum.12244Usingmentalmodelstounderstandsoilmanagement12K.PRAGER&M.CURFS12TheJamesHuttonInstitute,Craigiebuckler,MacaulayDrive,AberdeenAB158QH,UK,and3D-ECEnvironmentalChange,Curtiuslaan14,1
2、851AMHeiloo,TheNetherlandsAbstractSoildegradationcontinuestobeaseriousissue.Thisispartiallyduetothespecificcharacteristicsofsoilanddegradation,manyofwhicharelinkedtohowhumansperceivetheirenvironment.Howapersonperceivessoildegradationwillinfluencehowtheyinterpr
3、etthisphenomenon,whatattitudetheyadopttowardsit,andhowtheywillultimatelydecidetoact.Mentalmodelsareunderstoodasconstructedbythehumanmindasaresultofperception,experience,attitudesandknowledge,andthecomprehensionofdiscourse.Applyingtheconceptofmentalmodelsallo
4、wsanunderstandingoflandmanagerdecision-makingwithregardtosoilmanagement,linkingperceptions,attitudesandbeliefswithbehaviour.Weshowhowmentalmodelscanhelpidentifyconsistenciesanddifferencesofperceptionsofdifferentsoil-relatedstakeholders,suchasfarmers,scientis
5、ts,administrators,advisorsandpolicymakers.Inapracticaltestoftheconcept,adiagram-basedrepresentationofmentalmodelswasappliedinsouth-westernSpain.Wefoundthattheoccurrencesofoverlapinthementalmodelofsoil-relatedstakeholdersaretheareaswherecommunicationshouldfoc
6、us.Itisintheseareaswherestrategiestoaddresstheproblemofsoildegradationcanbedeveloped.Keywords:Cognitivemaps,mindset,mentality,behaviourchange,technologyadoptionforelicitingandrepresentingmentalmodelsindiagrams,whichIntroductionisthenappliedtosoilmanagementin
7、aMediterraneanOveradecadeago,Stocking&Murnaghan(2001,p25)environmenttoillustratehowtheyaidinunderstandingfarmerstatedthat‘althoughlanddegradationisaphysicalprocess,decision-making.Thisstudypresentsideasaroundaconceptitsunderlyingcausesarefirmlyrootedinthesoci
8、o-economic,notyetwidelyknownamonglanddegradationresearcherspoliticalandculturalenvironmentinwhichlanduserswhichwehopewillstimulatediscussionandfurtherthinkingonoperate’.Researchershaverecognized
