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Changing Land Management: Adoption of New Practices by Rural Landholders

There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so. Yet this research is often under-utilized in practice. Changing Land Management provides key insights from past and cutting-edge research to support decision-makers as they attempt to assist rural communities adapting to changed circumstances, such as new technologies, new environmental imperatives, new market opportunities or changed climate.

Common themes are the need for an appreciation of the diversity of land managers and their contexts, of the diversity of factors that influence land management decisions, and of the challenges that face government programs that are intended to change land management.

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Changing Land Management: Adoption of New Practices by Rural Landholders

There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so. Yet this research is often under-utilized in practice. Changing Land Management provides key insights from past and cutting-edge research to support decision-makers as they attempt to assist rural communities adapting to changed circumstances, such as new technologies, new environmental imperatives, new market opportunities or changed climate.

Common themes are the need for an appreciation of the diversity of land managers and their contexts, of the diversity of factors that influence land management decisions, and of the challenges that face government programs that are intended to change land management.

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Changing Land Management: Adoption of New Practices by Rural Landholders

Changing Land Management: Adoption of New Practices by Rural Landholders

Overview

There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so. Yet this research is often under-utilized in practice. Changing Land Management provides key insights from past and cutting-edge research to support decision-makers as they attempt to assist rural communities adapting to changed circumstances, such as new technologies, new environmental imperatives, new market opportunities or changed climate.

Common themes are the need for an appreciation of the diversity of land managers and their contexts, of the diversity of factors that influence land management decisions, and of the challenges that face government programs that are intended to change land management.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780643100381
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Publication date: 06/28/2011
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Pannell is Professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western
Australia, Director of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, and a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council. David’s research has won awards in the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK.

Frank Vanclay is Professor of Rural Sociology with the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research at the University of Tasmania. He was the 2000–2004 President of the International Rural Sociology Association, and has been an invited keynote speaker on rural social issues and social impact assessment at conferences and workshops all over the world.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
1. Changing land management: multiple perspectives on a multifaceted issue
2. Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
3. The many meanings of adoption
4. Social principles for agricultural extension in facilitating the adoption of new practices
5. Identifying potential adopters of an agricultural innovation
6. Identifying and targeting adoption drivers
7. Enabling change in family farm businesses
8. What ‘community’ means for farmer adoption of conservation practices
9. I hope you are feeling uncomfortable now: role conflict and the natural resources extension officer
10. Counting women into agriculture
11. Bridging the gap between policy and management of natural resources
12. Policy perspectives on changing land management
Index

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