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Conceptual and Empirical Foundations for Agricultural‐Environmental Policy Analysis
Author(s) -
Antle John M.,
Just Richard E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of environmental quality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 171
eISSN - 1537-2537
pISSN - 0047-2425
DOI - 10.2134/jeq1992.00472425002100030001x
Subject(s) - discipline , agriculture , policy analysis , data collection , research policy , knowledge base , conceptual framework , environmental policy , environmental resource management , environmental planning , management science , political science , computer science , sociology , engineering , public administration , social science , environmental science , ecology , world wide web , biology
The knowledge base necessary to support informed agricultural‐environmental policy involves many disciplines. This article presents a conceptual framework for agricultural‐environmental policy analysis based on integration of disciplinary knowledge. The framework demonstrates that, with suitably coordinated data collection and research design activities, policy analysis can be conducted on the basis of disciplinary research. In other words, interdisciplinary data collection rather than interdisciplinary research is needed. Current publicly financed data generation efforts could serve agricultural‐environmental policy needs if disciplinary expertise were used to ensure compatibility with disciplinary requirements while coordinating efforts so as to allow data integration for subsequent policy analysis.