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Title: | Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders | Contributor(s): | Pannell, D J (author); Marshall, Graham Roy (author); Barr, N (author); Curtis, A (author); Vanclay, F (author); Wilkinson, R (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | DOI: | 10.1071/EA05037 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2700 | Abstract: | Research on the adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation practices. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process. Adoption depends on a range of personal, social, cultural and economic factors, as well as on characteristics of the innovation itself. Adoption occurs when the landholder perceives that the innovation in question will enhance the achievement of their personal goals. A range of goals is identifiable among landholders, including economic, social and environmental goals. Innovations are more likely to be adopted when they have a high 'relative advantage' (perceived superiority to the idea or practice that it supersedes), and when they are readily trialable (easy to test and learn about before adoption). Non-adoption or low adoption of a number of conservation practices is readily explicable in terms of their failure to provide a relative advantage (particularly in economic terms) or a range of difficulties that landholders may have in trialing them. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 46(11), p. 1407-1424 | Publisher: | CSIRO Publishing | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1446-5574 0816-1089 1836-5787 1836-0939 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140205 Environment and Resource Economics | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960904 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an4599774 |
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