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DOI	10.21273/HORTTECH04933-21
	Lawn Removal Motivation, Satisfaction, and Landscape Maintenance Practices of Southern Californians
	Hartin, Janet S.; Surls, Rachel A.; Bush, Joseph P.
通讯作者	Hartin, JS (corresponding author)，Univ Calif Cooperat Extens, 7863 Cent Ave, Highland, CA 92346 USA.
来源期刊	HORTTECHNOLOGY
ISSN	1063-0198
EISSN	1943-7714
出版年	2022
卷号	32 期号:1 页码:57-66
英文摘要	Conserving water in California landscapes is critical due to a limited water supply, recurring droughts, and the energy use and costs of transporting water from northern to southern California due to a water distribution and population imbalance. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD, Los Angeles, CA) spent more than $310 million between 2014 and 2016 on lawn removal rebates in an effort to conserve residential water. In some cases, cities and local water districts augmented MWD rebates with their own incentives. We conducted a web-based study of 1153 southern Californians who removed all or a portion of their lawns over the past 10 years to identify their motivation, satisfaction, landscape water use, and related maintenance practices. Results indicate that rebates were less important for most respondents than the desire to conserve water, improve landscape appearance, and reduce costs. There was a high correlation between the overall satisfaction with the lawn replacement process and the appearance of transformed landscapes, supporting earlier findings regarding the importance consumers place on landscape appearance. Results of this study are timely for providing guidance to policymakers and water districts regarding the cost-effectiveness of lawn removal rebates to conserve urban water. This study also highlights a need and opportunity for water districts and Cooperative Extension to provide irrigation training to residents of stand-alone homes who maintain their own landscapes. While 90% of respondents indicated they singly (78%) or jointly (12%) determine irrigation schedules rather than rely on a gardener or landscaper, only 18% indicated they base irrigation schedules on soil moisture content or soil texture (6%). There is also a need to provide education to water districts that incentivize the use of synthetic turf in hot inland and desert areas regarding potential high-temperature injury to humans, pets, and wildlife.
英文关键词	conservation drought incentive rebate turf water
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000746030600001
WOS关键词	WATER CONSERVATION ; RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES ; CONSUMER PREFERENCES ; UNITED-STATES ; CHOICES ; TURFGRASSES ; ATTITUDES
WOS类目	Horticulture
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376476
作者单位	[Hartin, Janet S.] Univ Calif Cooperat Extens, 7863 Cent Ave, Highland, CA 92346 USA; [Surls, Rachel A.] Univ Calif Cooperat Extens, 700 West Main St, Alhambra, CA 91801 USA; [Bush, Joseph P.] Fielding Grad Univ, Sch Psychol, 2020 De la Vina St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hartin, Janet S.,Surls, Rachel A.,Bush, Joseph P.. Lawn Removal Motivation, Satisfaction, and Landscape Maintenance Practices of Southern Californians[J],2022,32(1):57-66.
APA	Hartin, Janet S.,Surls, Rachel A.,&Bush, Joseph P..(2022).Lawn Removal Motivation, Satisfaction, and Landscape Maintenance Practices of Southern Californians.HORTTECHNOLOGY,32(1),57-66.
MLA	Hartin, Janet S.,et al."Lawn Removal Motivation, Satisfaction, and Landscape Maintenance Practices of Southern Californians".HORTTECHNOLOGY 32.1(2022):57-66.