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THE FARM FAMILY LIFE CYCLE, SUCCESSION PATHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN'S COUNTRYSIDE
Author(s) -
Potter Clive,
Lobley Matt
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1996.tb00683.x
Subject(s) - ecological succession , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , rural area , family business , government (linguistics) , environmental change , geography , cover (algebra) , survey data collection , environmental resource management , business , economics , political science , engineering , marketing , ecology , climate change , biology , law , gene , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics
Research into the physical extent and rate of recent environmental change in the British countryside is at a more advanced stage than that concerned with causes and processes. This paper presents findings from a project designed to introduce a socio‐economic component into the Government's Countryside Surveys. Based on a questionnaire survey of occupiers with land in 169 1 km squares across Britain and a linked analysis of environmental and farm survey data, it examines the connection between farm business and land cover change in the squares. Different trajectories of farm business, and hence environmental, change are defined and related to lifecycle effects and influences associated with succession. A conclusion is that the processes of succession and inheritance are continuing to define critical transitions during which farm business, and hence environmental change, is most likely to be taking place.