Decision-making in soil conservation: application of a behavioral model to potato farmers in Sri Lanka

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

“…Table IV indicated that experience in rice farming had a signifi cant effect on mean score of the SWC scale at the 95% confidence level (p<0.01). This is consistent with the fi ndings of Illukpitiya and Gopalakrishnan (2004). However, Rezvanfar et al (2009) claim that experience in agriculture in general, had no signifi cant effect on adoption of soil sustainable conservation practices.…”

Decision-making by farmers regarding ecosystem services: Factors affecting soil conservation efforts in Costa Rica

“…Econometric studies based on farmers' monetary utility functions have been widely used to study adoption of soil conservation practices (Featherstone and Goodwin, 1993;Innes and Ardila, 1994;Soule et al, 2000;Illukpitiya and Gopalakrishnan, 2004;Leyva et al, 2007). Neo-classical decision models assuming maximization have been criticized by some writers as inappropriate for modeling behavior in real world decisions since strong assumptions on cognitive aspects are required (e.g.…”

“…So, based on our recollected data we constructed an ownership variable ("owned") which measures the percentage of total farm land that is owned by the individual producer. Finally, education level (measured by five levels) and age of individuals were included for their important role outlined in previous research on farmers' conservation behavior (Traore et al, 1998;Illukpitiya and Gopalakrishnan, 2004;Lee and Zhang, 2005).…”

Participation in biodiversity conservation: Motivations and barriers of Australian landholders

“…In the article, he stated that "there are no simple or single solutions to the problems of managing the rural environment", however, there is a need for better coordination between suppliers of public goods (landholders) and those who demand them (society). Twenty years on, such coordination can be observed in the multitude of programs that assist rural and semi-rural landholders to provide public goods from private property, including: biodiversity conservation (Doremus, 2003), carbon sequestration (Huang and Kronrad, 2001), riparian vegetation protection (Kline et al, 2000), and soil erosion control (Illukpitiya and Gopalakrishnan, 2004). These programs have been spawned in recognition of the importance of ecosystem function, and the nature and extent of ecosystems that exist partly or solely on privately-managed land.…”