干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Who will think outside the sink? Farmers' willingness to invest in technologies for groundwater sustainability in Pakistan

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DOI	10.1007/s10668-019-00391-8
	Who will think outside the sink? Farmers' willingness to invest in technologies for groundwater sustainability in Pakistan
	Memon, Junaid Alam; Alizai, Mehwish Qudoos; Hussain, Anwar
通讯作者	Memon, JA
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
ISSN	1387-585X
EISSN	1573-2975
出版年	2020
卷号	22 期号:5 页码:4425-4445
英文摘要	Concerns over depleting aquifers tend to recommend water-saving irrigation technologies as a potential solution. This study examines farmers' enthusiasm towards one of such technologies in four south-western districts of Pakistan. The required information was obtained through a survey questionnaire administered to a sample of 283 groundwater users, and it was analysed descriptively and via an ordinary least squares regression technique. Results indicate that adopting water-saving technologies is less likely in the absence of incentives such as subsidized system installation, a reliable supplier who can provide warranties on the system's service and spare parts and training the participating farmers. Besides, promoting such technologies would be relatively easier in the southern region due to those farmers' relatively greater enthusiasm there compared with their northern counterparts. We conclude that promoting technologies such as drip irrigation may continue, but only as the mandatory initial step of a broad-based strategy aimed at nurturing water conservation values at the societal level. Among various possible interventions, enhancing water literacy is extremely important so that farmers discover and correct wasteful aspects inherent in their current irrigation practices, work through options to minimize those wastages, and develop a sense of water conservation as a collective social responsibility.
英文关键词	Arid agriculture Aquifer depletion Drip irrigation Tubewell Water literacy Water-saving technologies
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000528625000028
WOS关键词	SOIL CONSERVATION ; ADOPTION BEHAVIOR ; IRRIGATION ; BALOCHISTAN ; ALBERTA ; ISSUES ; KAREZ
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/324362
作者单位	[Memon, Junaid Alam; Hussain, Anwar] Pakistan Inst Dev Econ, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; [Alizai, Mehwish Qudoos] Balochistan Univ Informat Technol Engn & Manageme, Quetta, Pakistan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Memon, Junaid Alam,Alizai, Mehwish Qudoos,Hussain, Anwar. Who will think outside the sink? Farmers' willingness to invest in technologies for groundwater sustainability in Pakistan[J],2020,22(5):4425-4445.
APA	Memon, Junaid Alam,Alizai, Mehwish Qudoos,&Hussain, Anwar.(2020).Who will think outside the sink? Farmers' willingness to invest in technologies for groundwater sustainability in Pakistan.ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY,22(5),4425-4445.
MLA	Memon, Junaid Alam,et al."Who will think outside the sink? Farmers' willingness to invest in technologies for groundwater sustainability in Pakistan".ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 22.5(2020):4425-4445.