Identifying the Factors That Influence Farmer Participation in Environmental Management Practices in Switzerland
Identifying the Factors That Influence Farmer Participation in Environmental Management Practices in Switzerland
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确定影响瑞士农民参与环境管理实践的因素
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2014
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M. Rounsevell
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E. Karali;B. Brunner;R. Doherty;A. Hersperger;M. Rounsevell
本文确定了限制或促进瑞士农民决定参与环境管理实践的因素。采用半结构化访谈来探讨瑞士北部对农业环境计划（AES）的参与和有机农业（OF）的应用。研究发现，有十七个因素会影响农民参与环境管理实践的决定，这表明他们的决定不仅仅受到经济激励的驱动。社会和政治因素、家庭和个人特征以及对自然环境的关注都显示出影响农民决策的方式，但财务考虑仍然很重要，这表明环境参与主要是由于需要适应最近的农业政策改革和相关补贴。尽管政策鼓励环境友好型农场管理和实现生态效益，但没有证据表明这反映了“绿色”农民态度的长期转变，而不是短期机会主义。
This paper identifies the factors that either constrain or facilitate farmer decisions to participate in environmental management practices in Switzerland. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore participation in agro-environmental schemes (AES) and the application of organic farming (OF) in the north of Switzerland. Seventeen factors were found to influence farmer decisions to participate in environmental management practices, demonstrating that their decisions were not solely driven by economic incentives. Social and political factors, household and individual profile characteristics as well as concern for the natural environment were all shown to affect the way in which farmers made decisions, but financial considerations remained important, suggesting that environmental participation resulted mainly from the need to adapt to recent agricultural policy reforms with associated subsidies. Although policy was shown to encourage environmentally-friendly farm management and the achievement of ecological benefits, there is no evidence to suggest that this reflects a long-term shift in ‘green’ farmer attitudes rather than short-term opportunism.