Constrained Choice and Ethical Dilemmas in Land Management: Environmental Quality and Food Safety in California Agriculture
Constrained Choice and Ethical Dilemmas in Land Management: Environmental Quality and Food Safety
in California Agriculture
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土地管理中的受限选择和道德困境：加州农业的环境质量和食品安全
DOI：
10.1007/s10806-008-9129-2
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
D. Stuart
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作者：
D. Stuart
随着环境和保护工作越来越多地转向农业景观，了解农业生产者如何做出土地管理决策非常重要。虽然之前的研究探讨了生产者决策，但许多研究未能认识到外部结构性影响的重要性。本文通过案例研究来探讨食品系统中的市场整合和企业力量的增强如何限制生产者的选择并造成土地管理的道德困境。加利福尼亚州中部海岸地区的农作物种植者面临着环境质量和行业规定的食品安全标准方面相互矛盾的要求。通过邮件调查和个人访谈来探讨种植者对这些需求的看法和行动。结果表明，在许多情况下，种植者面临严重的道德困境，并感受到大型加工和零售公司的压力，采取他们认为破坏环境和不道德的措施。解决农业景观环境问题的未来战略应考虑生产者面临的经济限制以及大公司在制定生产标准方面的作用。
As environmental and conservation efforts increasingly turn towards agricultural landscapes, it is important to understand how land management decisions are made by agricultural producers. While previous studies have explored producer decision-making, many fail to recognize the importance of external structural influences. This paper uses a case study to explore how consolidated markets and increasing corporate power in the food system can constrain producer choice and create ethical dilemmas over land management. Crop growers in the Central Coast region of California face conflicting demands regarding environmental quality and industry imposed food safety standards. A mail survey and personal interviews were used to explore growers’ perceptions and actions regarding these demands. Results indicate that in many cases growers face serious ethical dilemmas and feel pressured by large processing and retail firms to adopt measures they find environmentally destructive and unethical. Future strategies to address environmental issues on agricultural landscapes should consider the economic constraints producers face and the role of large firms in creating production standards.