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An inertia model for the adoption of new farming practices
Author(s) -
Anastasiadis Simon,
Chukova Stefanka
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/itor.12336
Subject(s) - agriculture , business , water quality , quality (philosophy) , key (lock) , resistance (ecology) , environmental economics , nutrient , environmental resource management , natural resource economics , environmental planning , environmental science , water resource management , computer science , economics , geography , ecology , computer security , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , biology
Nutrient emissions from agricultural land are now widely recognized as one of the key contributors to poor water quality in local lakes, rivers, and streams. Nutrient trading for nonpoint sources, including farms, has been suggested as a regulatory tool to improve and protect water quality. However, farmers' attitudes suggest that they are resistant to adopting the unfamiliar technologies and farm management practices that may be required under such a scheme. This study develops a model of farmers' resistance to change and demonstrates how this affects their adoption of new mitigation technologies under nutrient trading regulation. We present the model and derive some of its properties in the two‐farmer case.