Evaluating farmers' likely participation in a payment programme for water quality protection in the UK uplands
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Evaluating farmers' likely participation in a payment programme for water quality protection in the UK uplands. / Beharry-Borg, Nesha; Smart, James C.R.; Termansen, Mette; Hubacek, Klaus.
I: Regional Environmental Change, Bind 13, Nr. 3, 2013, s. 633-647.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Evaluating farmers' likely participation in a payment programme for water quality protection in the UK uplands
AU - Beharry-Borg, Nesha
AU - Smart, James C.R.
AU - Termansen, Mette
AU - Hubacek, Klaus
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Maintaining drinking water quality is essential to water companies and their customers, and agricultural non-point source pollution is a major cause of water quality degradation. In this paper, we examine the potential use of payments financed by a water company as incentives for farmers to adjust their agricultural land management practices in order to protect water quality. We use a choice experiment (CE) to measure farmers' minimum willingness to accept (WTA) requirements to adjust agricultural land management practices in Nidderdale and the Washburn valley (Yorkshire, UK) under a potential local payment for ecosystem services (PES) programme. Latent class analysis of farmers' CE responses was used to quantify the size and spread of farmers' preferences and minimum WTA values for compensation payments, and to investigate potential drivers of preference variation. Analysis suggested that the emphasis on sheep or cattle/dairy production within mixed farming businesses in this area provides a partial explanation for the considerable observed heterogeneity in preferences and minimum WTA requirements for participation in a potential PES programme.
AB - Maintaining drinking water quality is essential to water companies and their customers, and agricultural non-point source pollution is a major cause of water quality degradation. In this paper, we examine the potential use of payments financed by a water company as incentives for farmers to adjust their agricultural land management practices in order to protect water quality. We use a choice experiment (CE) to measure farmers' minimum willingness to accept (WTA) requirements to adjust agricultural land management practices in Nidderdale and the Washburn valley (Yorkshire, UK) under a potential local payment for ecosystem services (PES) programme. Latent class analysis of farmers' CE responses was used to quantify the size and spread of farmers' preferences and minimum WTA values for compensation payments, and to investigate potential drivers of preference variation. Analysis suggested that the emphasis on sheep or cattle/dairy production within mixed farming businesses in this area provides a partial explanation for the considerable observed heterogeneity in preferences and minimum WTA requirements for participation in a potential PES programme.
KW - Heterogeneous preferences
KW - Land management incentives
KW - Latent class model
KW - Payments for ecosystem services
KW - WTA
U2 - 10.1007/s10113-012-0282-9
DO - 10.1007/s10113-012-0282-9
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84878592108
VL - 13
SP - 633
EP - 647
JO - Regional Environmental Change
JF - Regional Environmental Change
SN - 1436-3798
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 227519612