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    1. Adherence to environmental regulation in the european union common agricultural policy: social representations and conditionality among french farmers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gaymard, Sandrine (author), Goujon, Boris (author), and Lefebvre, Marianne (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12253
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    22 pages, Support for the agricultural sector from the European Union via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is evolving. The last CAP reform in 2014 made one further step toward mandatory approaches. To understand the "social thinking" and behavior when faced with these measures, an innovative application has been adopted. Globally, the farmers' discourse manifests contradictions between environmental concern and the financial dimension, which is the expression of their daily difficulties. Mandatory approaches to sustainable agriculture may favor what the Theory of Conditionality called "legitimate transgressions" if regulations appear unadapted to real practices because compliance and opportunity costs are too high.

    2. Agri‐environmental policies to meet consumer preferences in Japan: an economic‐biophysical model approach

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Uetake, Tetsuya (author) and Sasaki, Hiroki (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2014
    Published:
    Japan
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D06853
    Journal Title:
    International Journal on Food System Dynamics
    Journal Title Details:
    5(2) : 69-86

    5. Tracing social capital: how stakeholder group interactions shape agricultural water quality restoration in the Florida Everglades

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Yoder, Landon (author), Chowdhury, Rinku Roy (author), and School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 16 Document Number: D10459
    Journal Title:
    Land Use Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    77 : 354-361
    Notes:
    8 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural nonpoint source pollution remains a pressing environmental problem despite decades of policy and environmental initiatives. Cooperative local actions are a crucial element of effective multilevel governance solutions to such problems, but securing farmer participation for water quality protection remains challenging. Social capital—relations of trust, reciprocity, and shared social norms within and between key stakeholder groups—has been found to enable cooperation for environmentally desirable outcomes. However, the downsides of social capital remain under-examined in multilevel governance, where cooperation within one stakeholder group (bonding social capital) may undermine cooperation with other stakeholders (bridging social capital). Given this important gap, researchers need to examine how bonding and bridging social capital may be formed, maintained, or undermined through stakeholder interactions, and the corresponding environmental consequences. In this paper, we address these gaps through a case study of south Florida’s sugar-producing region, whose drainage water flows south into the Florida Everglades. In contrast to persistent water quality impairment elsewhere, Everglades water quality has improved steadily over the past 20 years. These improvements have taken place under a complex set of governance arrangements that established a mandatory long-term numeric water quality target but which relies on shared compliance among farms. These dynamics encouraged interactions among three key groups of stakeholders—farmers, agricultural extension agents, and state regulators—to implement management changes. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we find that bonding social capital among farmers encourages them to improve their management through a sense of shared responsibility, while also potentially limiting restoration by maintaining perceptions that the regulations are unfair. Bridging social capital helps to legitimize new management efforts, while court-mandated water quality targets incentivize farmers to draw on multiple forms of social capital. We also discuss the relevance of this case for governing agricultural nonpoint source pollution in similar settings elsewhere.