Factors Influencing Farmer Participation in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme

摘要

This study investigates factors influencing farmers' motivations for participation in the Cambrian Mountains ESA scheme (Wales, U.K.). Emphasis is placed on analysing whether significant correlations exist between ESA participation and specific factors. A behavioural approach is used for analysis, largely based on Brotherton's classification into "scheme factors" (e.g. payments) and "farmer factors" (e.g. age of farmer), but which expands this classification by including the "information environment" of a farmer and "dynamics within the farm district"-variables which this study shares with some actor-network approaches.