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  • Evaluating farmers’ likely participation in a payment programme for water quality protection in the UK uplands

    Author(s)
    Beharry-Borg, Nesha
    Smart, James CR
    Termansen, Mette
    Hubacek, Klaus
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Smart, Jim C.
    Year published
    2013
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    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 ...
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    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.
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    Journal Title
    Regional Environmental Change
    Volume
    13
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-012-0282-9
    Subject
    Environment and resource economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49725
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