TY - JOUR
T1 - Farmer perspectives on collaboration
T2 - Evidence from agricultural landscapes in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania
AU - Eaton, Weston M.
AU - Brasier, Kathryn J.
AU - Whitley, Hannah
AU - Bausch, Julia C.
AU - Hinrichs, C. Clare
AU - Quimby, Barbara
AU - Burbach, Mark E.
AU - Wutich, Amber
AU - Delozier, Jodi
AU - Whitmer, Walt
AU - Kennedy, Stephanie
AU - Weigle, Jason
AU - Williams, Clinton
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the farmer interviewees in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania for sharing their time and perspectives as well as the anonymous reviewers and Lara Fowler for helpful suggestions on earlier versions of this manuscript. We also appreciate the work of Dee Ebbeka, a cartographer with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Conservation and Survey Division, for drawing the maps of the three study sites. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (IASNR) meetings in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 2019. This work is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Water for Agriculture grant no. 2017-68007-26584 /project accession no. 1013079 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture .
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the farmer interviewees in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania for sharing their time and perspectives as well as the anonymous reviewers and Lara Fowler for helpful suggestions on earlier versions of this manuscript. We also appreciate the work of Dee Ebbeka, a cartographer with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Conservation and Survey Division, for drawing the maps of the three study sites. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (IASNR) meetings in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 2019. This work is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Water for Agriculture grant no. 2017-68007-26584/project accession no. 1013079 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - We examine how contextual factors affect farmer perspectives on collaborative environmental management in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, U.S., through a qualitative and comparative study. In doing so, we explore how contextual factors identified in foundational collaborative environmental governance research play out specifically in three agricultural cases. Findings from this study reveal four key cross-case themes from farmer perspectives on collaboration: (1) prior participation, (2) flexible agenda, (3) willingness to learn, and (4) agency influence. Further, we find positions that are more open or closed on each theme are shaped by three contextual factors: farmer interdependence with non-farmers, the nature of salient water resource issues, and protection from versus vulnerability to regulatory agencies. These findings are useful for guiding future collaborative forums aiming to elicit farmer participation in environmental management.
AB - We examine how contextual factors affect farmer perspectives on collaborative environmental management in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, U.S., through a qualitative and comparative study. In doing so, we explore how contextual factors identified in foundational collaborative environmental governance research play out specifically in three agricultural cases. Findings from this study reveal four key cross-case themes from farmer perspectives on collaboration: (1) prior participation, (2) flexible agenda, (3) willingness to learn, and (4) agency influence. Further, we find positions that are more open or closed on each theme are shaped by three contextual factors: farmer interdependence with non-farmers, the nature of salient water resource issues, and protection from versus vulnerability to regulatory agencies. These findings are useful for guiding future collaborative forums aiming to elicit farmer participation in environmental management.
KW - Agricultural working landscapes
KW - Collaborative environmental management
KW - Contextual factors
KW - Farmer participation
KW - Stakeholder engagement
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131519096
SN - 0743-0167
VL - 94
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
ER -