Conjoint Analysis of Farmers’ Response to Conservation Incentives

Conjoint Analysis of Farmers’ Response to Conservation Incentives

Environmental degradation threatens the long term resiliency of the US food and farming system. While USDA has provided conservation incentives for the adoption of best management practices (BMPs), only a small percentage of farms have participated in such conservation programs. This study uses conjoint analysis to examine Vermont farmers’ underlying preferences and willingness-to-accept (WTA) ...

A Comparative Analysis of Behavioral Theories towards Farmers’ Water Conservation

According to experts, the inefficient agricultural sector has a dominant role in degrading water resources all over the world. Farmers’ conservational behavior is an important aspect of new integrated water management studies. Relevantly, various behavioral theories have been proposed in the field of environmental psychology. The main objective of the present comparative analysis and review stu...

A Comparison of Conjoint Analysis Response Formats

Critiques of contingent valuation in the early 1990s (Hausman NOAA Panel) appear to have accelerated rcscarch efforts to investigate the use of conjoint analysis and choice-based methods for eliciting nonmarket values (Adamowicz, Louviere, and Williams; Adamowicz et al.; Garrod and Willis; Johnson and Desvousges; Johnston and Swallow; Holmes, Zinkhan, and Mcrccr; Layton and Lee; Mackenzie; Opal...

Apprenticeship and Conservation Incentives

Apprentice programs offer a method to encourage responsible individual behavior by laying the foundation for successful collective property rights. Apprenticeship has three purposes: to restrict the rate of entry, to affect the quality of the participant, and to create the conditions for collective action for sustainability. Apprenticeship could be an important fishery management tool, particul...

Taking conjoint analysis to task.