What “community” means for farmer adoption of conservation practices: Some logic and evidence.
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Researcher's References
Pannell, D.J., Marshall, G.R., Barr, N., Curtis, A., Vanclay, F. and Wilkinson, R. (2006). Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46(11): 1407-1424. [If you or your organisation subscribes to the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture you can access the paper at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/72/paper/EA05037.htm (or non-subscribers can buy a copy on-line for A$25). Otherwise, email David.Pannell@uwa.edu.au to ask for a copy.]
Pannell, D.J., Marshall, G.R., Barr, N., Curtis, A., Vanclay, F. and Wilkinson, R. (2006). Adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders, Connections: Farm, Food and Resource Issues, here http://www.agrifood.info/connections/2006/Pannell_et_al.html. (summary version of above paper).
Marshall, G.R., 2008. 'Nesting, subsidiarity and community-based environmental governance beyond the local level', International Journal of the Commons 2(1), 75-97. Online here.
Marshall, G.R. 2009. 'Polycentricity, reciprocity, and farmer adoption of conservation practices under community-based governance.' Ecological Economics 68 (5),1507-20. [If you or your organisation subscribes to Ecological Economics, you can access the paper at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09218009. Otherwise, email gmarshal@une.edu.au to ask for a copy.]
Marshall, G.R., 2008. Community-based, regional delivery of natural resource management: Building system-wide capacities to motivate voluntary farmer adoption of conservation practices, RIRDC Publication No 08/175, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra. Available from https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/08-175
Marshall, G.R. and Stafford Smith, D.M. 2010. 'Natural resources governance for the drylands of the Murray–Darling Basin'. The Rangeland Journal. 32: 267-282. [If you or your organisation subscribes to The Rangeland Journal, you can access the paper at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/RJ10020.htm. Otherwise, email gmarshal@une.edu.au to ask for a copy.]
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