Understanding and influencing behaviour change by farmers to improve water quality

Blackstock, Kirsty; Ingram, Julie; Burton, Rob J.F.; Brown, Katrina; Slee, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.04.029

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“…On the other hand, their capacity to communicate both environmental issues and measures taken to mitigate them clearly and transparently is the key to strengthening the credibility of government authorities and people's trust in them. In turn, a higher level of trust would eventually translate into a higher willingness of respondents to support environmental management measures [37,38].…”

Section: The Connection Between Environmental Attitude and Local Envimentioning

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Changes in Environmental Awareness and Its Connection to Local Environmental Management in Water Conservation Zones: The Case of Beijing, China

Wang

Brombal

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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This paper aims at investigating the change over time in the environmental awareness in rural Chinese communities and its correlation with environmental management measures implemented at the local level. We identify three main components of awareness, namely: perception, behavior, and attitude toward environmental management measures. Data were collected from two surveys in three villages in northern China in 2006 and 2015 that interviewed 125 and 129 respondents, respectively, and were analyzed employing an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. The results discussed in the paper show that environmental awareness increased between 2006-2015, and was mainly manifested in better environmental behavior and understanding of environmental status due an improvement in rural infrastructure and a greater amount of information provided to rural residents about the environment. Place of residence had a considerable influence on respondents' environmental awareness: residents in eco-villages had a higher environmental awareness than those living in common agricultural villages. This appears to indicate a positive nexus between the comprehensiveness of environmental management measures implemented locally, and environmental awareness. Also, the universality of environment issues reduced the importance of socioeconomic and demographic factors in determining the degree of environmental awareness. However, more attention should be paid to villagers' external behavior and inner feelings, such as their attitude to governmental management policies. These findings yield important policy implications that are relevant to the promotion of environmental awareness in China's rural communities, and the adoption of more effective environmental management measures.

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Changes in Environmental Awareness and Its Connection to Local Environmental Management in Water Conservation Zones: The Case of Beijing, China

Wang

Brombal

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…As a result of the increasing pressure on limited water resources, member states of the European Union implemented the Water Framework Directive, which aims to assure the good ecological status of all water bodies (Anonymous 2000). Since agriculture is an important source of nonpoint source water pollution, it may be necessary to adopt agricultural practices which minimize the release of pollutants to meet societal goals and satisfy government regulations (Blackstock et al 2010). For the greenhouse industry, this means that irrigation management will become increasingly important, since excessive irrigation results in low water use efficiency, leaching, and runoff of water, fertilizer, and other agrochemicals.…”

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Timer versus moisture sensor-based irrigation control of soilless lettuce: Effects on yield, quality and water use efficiency

Montesano¹,

Iersel²,

Parente³

2016

Hort. Sci. (Prague)

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The study compares the effects of: timer ('Timer') and soil moisture sensor-controlled irrigation on soilless lettuce; two volumetric water content (Θ) thresholds for irrigation (0.30 ('Θ = 0.3') and 0.40 m 3 /m 3 ('Θ = 0.4')). The most nutrient solution (NS) was applied in 'Timer' where the lowest water use efficiency was observed, with 17 and 42% less NS used in 'Θ = 0.4' and 'Θ = 0.3' , respectively. Irrigation volumes followed the plant water needs in the sensor-controlled treatments, with little or no leaching, while 18% of leaching was recorded in 'Timer' . Plants in 'Timer' and 'Θ = 0.4' had higher fresh weights (24%) and leaf area (13%) than plants in 'Θ = 0.3' . Similar dry weight was observed among treatments but percentage of dry matter was 20% higher in 'Θ = 0.3' . Gas exchanges and leaf tissues chemical composition were similar in all treatments, but nitrate concentration was lower in the 'Θ = 0.3' plants. Precision sensor-controlled irrigation based on Θ measurements is an effective tool to increase the overall water use efficiency and to improve the quality of soilless-grown lettuce by acting on the substrate moisture level.

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“…This suggests that the regulatory framework needs to account for local soil and hydrological conditions in environmental risk assessment. This issue has previously been raised in other jurisdictions (Blackstock et al, 2009;Barnes et al, 2011) and now in the Republic of Ireland by Jordan et al (2012). With the exception of Barnes et al (2011) this has not emerged strongly in previous research on ND implementation heretofore.…”

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Implementation of the EU Nitrates Directive in the Republic of Ireland — A view from the farm

Buckley

2012

Ecological Economics

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Understanding and influencing behaviour change by farmers to improve water quality

Cited by 262 publications

References 44 publications

Changes in Environmental Awareness and Its Connection to Local Environmental Management in Water Conservation Zones: The Case of Beijing, China

Changes in Environmental Awareness and Its Connection to Local Environmental Management in Water Conservation Zones: The Case of Beijing, China

Timer versus moisture sensor-based irrigation control of soilless lettuce: Effects on yield, quality and water use efficiency

Implementation of the EU Nitrates Directive in the Republic of Ireland — A view from the farm

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