Assessing impacts of alternative agricultural land use scenarios on nitrogen leaching with the INCA-N model

The Integrated Nutrients Model for Catchments - Nitrogen (INCA-N) model was applied in Savijoki, a small (15,4 km2) agricultural catchment, in order to analyse possibilities to achieve the targeted 50 % reduction in agricultural nitrogen loading. The model was applied for the years 1995-1999, representing the first period of the Finnish Agri-Environmental Programme, a widely adapted policy measure for controlling environmental impacts of agriculture in Finland

Facts, figures and impacts

This leaflet highlights a selection of NCRM achievements and impacts. The hard copy of the leaflet is A6 size with cut-outs and irregular page sizes

NCRM Phase 3 brochure

This brochure gives an overview of all NCRM activities and the Phase 3 nodes

The effects of exposure to images of others’ suffering and vulnerability on altruistic, trust-based, and reciprocated economic decision-making

In this paper we explored the effects of exposure to images of the suffering and vulnerability of others on altruistic, trust-based, and reciprocated incentivized economic decisions, accounting for differences in participants’ dispositional empathy and reported in-group trust for their recipient(s). This was done using a pictorial priming task, framed as a memory test, and a triadic economic game design. Using the largest experimental sample to date to explore this issue, our integrated analysis of two online experiments (total N = 519), found statistically consistent evidence that exposure to images of suffering and vulnerability (vs. neutral images) increased altruistic in-group giving as measured by the “triple dictator game”, and that the manipulation was significantly more effective in those who reported lower trust for their recipients. The experimental manipulation also significantly increased altruistic giving in the standard “dictator game” and trust-based giving in the “investment game”, but only in those who were lower in in-group trust and also high in affective or cognitive empathy. Complementary qualitative evidence revealed the strongest motivations associated with increased giving in the experimental condition were greater assumed reciprocation and a lower aversion to risk. However, no consistent effects of the experimental manipulation on participants’ reciprocated decisions were observed. These findings suggest that, as well as altruistic decision-making in the “triple dictator game”, collaboratively witnessing the suffering of others may heighten trust-based in-group giving in the “investment game” for some people, but the effects are heterogeneous and sensitive to context

MethodsNews Winter 2012

Contents: Majority support for homeopathy in Britain? by Paul Stoneman and Patrick Sturgis; Female labour supply, human capital and the lifetime effects of in-work benefits, by Monica Costas Dias and Jonathan Shaw; Understanding pathways from fertility history to later life health, by Emily Grundy and Sanna Read; What can we do with marginalia, notes and letters? The possibilities of narrative analysis for paradata in historical surveys, by Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Heather Elliott and Rosalind Edwards; Digital technologies in the Operating Theatre, by Jeff Bezemer; The bead method: a biographical approach to researching mothers and trust in post-war South Sudan, by Rachel Ayrton; Developing ethical literacy: an unnecessary burden or a benefit to researchers? by Rose Wiles; NCRM in ESRC Festival of Social Sciences: Smart Cities exhibition in Leeds City Museu

MethodsNews Summer 2012

Contents: Teaching quantitative methods, by Malcolm Williams; Is there a single ‘right’ way to study political text?, by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey; Open data: problems and promise, by David J. Hand; After the Census, by David Martin; Volunteered information, geospatial data and agent-based models of criminal behaviour, by Nick Malleson and Mark Birkin; Are you sure that’s the answer? Uncertainty in evaluation questions, by Mike Brewer; New ‘What is?’ series launched, by Graham Crow; and NCRM Annual Lecture by Sir John Beddington: The challenges of the 21st century - the ineluctable need for multidisciplinarity