Demographic and farm characteristic differences in ontario farmers’ views about sustainability policies

Filson, Glen C.

doi:10.1007/bf03055300

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“…This has a direct impact on environmental decision-making as "different phases are accompanied by different motivations and interests and will therefore influence management decisions" (Ondersteijn et al, 2003: 35 -also see Leonard et al, 2011). In particular, life-cycle stage can be indicative of periods of major business restructuring (Potter & Lobley, 1992, 1996Ondersteijn et al, 2003;Lambert et al, 2007) as (a) the retiring manager prepares the farm for succession (Ellis et al, 1999), (b) the successor begins to make management changes, or (c) the farmer without a successor prepares for retirement (Potter & Lobley, 1992, 1996. Further, older farmers have shorter planning horizons (Pannell et al, 2006;Lambert et al, 2007) and consequently may show a preference for shorter environmental contracts (Ruto & Garrod, 2009).…”

Section: Age Of the Owner Occupier/managermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, research has shown that women are more likely to support government regulations to protect the environment (Filson, 1996), women are more likely to be organic farmers (Egri, 1999), farms are more likely to encourage wildlife when women are involved in decision-making (Hall & Mogyorody, 2007) and women are more likely to participate in agri-environmental programs or undertake private conservation activities (Curtis & DeLacy, 1996;Boon et al, 2010).…”

Section: Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

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The influence of farmer demographic characteristics on environmental behaviour: A review

Burton¹

2014

Journal of Environmental Management

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Many agricultural studies have observed a relationship between farmer demographic characteristics and environmental behaviours. These relationships are frequently employed in the construction of models, the identification of farmer types, or as part of more descriptive analyses aimed at understanding farmers' environmental behaviour. However, they have also often been found to be inconsistent or contradictory. Although a considerable body of literature has built up around the subject area, research has a tendency to focus on factors such as the direction, strength and consistency of the relationship -leaving the issue of causality largely to speculation. This review addresses this gap by reviewing literature on 4 key demographic variables: age, experience, education, and gender for hypothesised causal links.Overall the review indicates that the issue of causality is a complex one. Inconsistent relationships can be attributed to the presence of multiple causal pathways, the role of scheme factors in determining which pathway is important, inadequately specified measurements of demographic characteristics, and the treatment of non-linear causalities as linear. In addition, all demographic characteristics were perceived to be influenced (to varying extents) by cultural-historical patterns leading to cohort effects or socialised differences in the relationship with environmental behaviour. The paper concludes that more work is required on the issue of causality.

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Section: Age Of the Owner Occupier/managermentioning

confidence: 99%

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The influence of farmer demographic characteristics on environmental behaviour: A review

Burton¹

2014

Journal of Environmental Management

203

104

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“…Further, it is found that a lot of studies (not mentioned in review) are carried out to study the environmental attitudes of various levels of students, adolescents, farmers and teachers (Filson 1996;Shobeiri et al 2006;Larijani and Yeshodhara 2008), and some are racial/ethnic or culture specific i.e. for blacks and white, Germans, Russians, Iranians, Chinese, Canadians, Anglo-Canadians, Hong Konger, Africans, Americans, etc.…”

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“…(e.g. Dunlap 1975;Szagun and Pavlov 1995;Filson 1996;Chan 1999;Uyeki and Holland 2000;Blake 2003;Deng and Swinnerton 2006;etc. ) The instruments in all these studies contain items relevant to the variables to be studied i.e.…”

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Environmental education awareness among school teachers

Nagra¹

2010

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The study identifies the environmental education awareness among school teachers in relation to level of school, residential background, gender and subject specialization. A self-designed questionnaire to measure the environmental education awareness was administered to a stratified sample of 3,600 school teachers. Analysis of variance results revealed significant variation in the environmental education awareness level of school teachers in relation to their level, residential background and subject specialization. However, no significant variation was observed in relation to the gender of school teachers.

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“…Intention can be determined via farmers' interaction with others who have already adopted particular environmental management practices. However, some farmers probably implement BMPs, because they are being encouraged to do so by conservation authorities or government officials (Filson 1996) or they act in response to peer pressure from family and friends to do so (Ryan 1995).…”

Section: Factors Motivating Farmers To Introduce Bmpsmentioning

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Factors affecting the adoption of best management practices in southern Ontario

2008

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This paper examines the factors that affect the adoption of best management practices (BMPs) in Southern Ontario watersheds using both qualitative and quantitative techniques. A sample of 164 farmers was analyzed and triangulated with the results from in-depth interviews. The results suggest that farm and personal characteristics affect the adoption rate of BMPs and there should be financial incentives in order to create an enabling environment that will encourage the adoption of BMPs.

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Demographic and farm characteristic differences in ontario farmers’ views about sustainability policies

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

The influence of farmer demographic characteristics on environmental behaviour: A review

The influence of farmer demographic characteristics on environmental behaviour: A review

Environmental education awareness among school teachers

Factors affecting the adoption of best management practices in southern Ontario

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