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DOI	10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119491
	Social psychological factors drive farmers' adoption of environmental best management practices
	Drescher, Michael; Hannay, James; Feick, Robert D.; Caldwell, Wayne
通讯作者	Drescher, M
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
ISSN	0301-4797
EISSN	1095-8630
出版年	2024
卷号	350
英文摘要	Agriculture is a main driver of land-cover change globally resulting in decreased biodiversity, increased carbon emissions, and land desertification. Environmental best management practices reduce risk to the environment caused by agricultural operations. However, the adoption of environmental best management practices by farmers often is lower than what would be possible. While prior studies have investigated determinants of environmental best management practices, it is not well understood how social psychological drivers of various best management practices may be modified by contextual factors. To help close this knowledge gap, we con-ducted a large-scale survey of Ontario farmers investigating how social psychological factors and resource constraints combine to determine adoption of farm forests, riparian buffers and windbreaks, and how these relationships are modified by farmer demographics and farm characteristics. We analyzed survey responses of 490 farmers with structural equation modeling using the Theory of Planned Behavior as theoretical framework. Our results suggest that perceived benefits of environmental best management practices are of relatively low impact on best management practice adoption. Beliefs of a personal obligation for adoption and the perception of the capacity for adoption consistently were of higher impact, with lack of labor as main constraint. The relationships of perceived benefits and social norms with adoption were modified by farmer income, education, and age, as well as by the distance between a farm and the nearest settlement. However, the relationship of control beliefs with adoption was not affected by any contextual factors. We conclude that the improvement of programs in support of labor availability may have positive impacts on the adoption of the investigated environmental best management practices.
英文关键词	Best management practice Farm Forest Riparian buffer Social psychology Windbreak
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:001129023300001
WOS关键词	INTENTIONS
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/404445
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Drescher, Michael,Hannay, James,Feick, Robert D.,et al. Social psychological factors drive farmers' adoption of environmental best management practices[J],2024,350.
APA	Drescher, Michael,Hannay, James,Feick, Robert D.,&Caldwell, Wayne.(2024).Social psychological factors drive farmers' adoption of environmental best management practices.JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT,350.
MLA	Drescher, Michael,et al."Social psychological factors drive farmers' adoption of environmental best management practices".JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 350(2024).