Modeling farmer participation in agri-environmental nitrate pollution reducing schemes

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2175-2180

  Giovanopoulou, Eirini ^a   Nastis, Stefanos A ^a   Papanagiotou, Evagelos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adoption; Agri environmental programmes; Nitrate Reduction Programme; Self selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION CONSTRAINT; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FARMERS ATTITUDE; NITRATE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; SELF ASSESSMENT;

GREECE;

EID: 80052033262     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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