Can farmers map their farm system? Causal mapping and the sustainability of sheep/beef farms in New Zealand

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-66

  Fairweather, John R ^a   Hunt, Lesley M ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Causal maps; Cognitive maps; Conventional; Integrated; New Zealand; Organic; Q methodology; Sheep beef farmers; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957767485     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-009-9252-3     Document Type: Article

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