Conference paper
Does Landcare Make a Difference to Intensive Farmers? A Study of the Influence of Landcare Membership on Horticulturists in Queensland
Proceedings of the 2003 Australian Sociological Association Conference, pp.1-9
Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, 2003 (Armidale, Australia, 04-Dec-2003–06-Dec-2003)
Australian Sociological Association and the University of New England
2003
Abstract
For the past two decades, the implementation of ecologically sustainable develop-ment in rural Australia has focused on Landcare and community based efforts to encourage farmers to implement less degrading farm practices. In recent years, this has been augmented by the development of guidelines for voluntary codes of envi-ronmental practices for industries. A booklet entitled Farmcare was developed spe-cifically for intensive vegetable growers and widely distributed to all growers (QFVG 1998). This study investigated the relationships between environmental values and beliefs and the perceptions of the importance of the recommended code of practice for environmentally sound farm management. This paper reports on the analysis of differences between Queensland vegetable growers who belong to Landcare groups and those who do not. Some interesting and significant approaches to environmen-tally sound farm management were discovered through the data analysis.
Details
- Title
- Does Landcare Make a Difference to Intensive Farmers? A Study of the Influence of Landcare Membership on Horticulturists in Queensland
- Authors
- Barbara Geno (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Business
- Contributors
- Peter Corrigan (Editor)Margaret Gibson (Editor)Gail Hawkes (Editor)Eric Livingston (Editor)John Scott (Editor)Steven Thiele (Editor)Gillian Carpenter (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2003 Australian Sociological Association Conference, pp.1-9
- Conference details
- Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, 2003 (Armidale, Australia, 04-Dec-2003–06-Dec-2003)
- Publisher
- Australian Sociological Association and the University of New England
- Date published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 0646429272
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2003 The Authors. Reproduced with permission of the author
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449956002621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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