Soil conservation in Swiss agriculture-Approaching abstract and symbolic meanings in farmers' life-worlds

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 332-339

  Schneider, Flurina ^a   Ledermann, Thomas ^a   Fry, Patricia ^b   Rist, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Knowledge Management Environment LLC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adoption; Aesthetics; Life world; No tillage; Soil erosion; Symbolic meanings

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ESTHETICS; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SYMBOLISM; ZERO TILLAGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70449659432     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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