Investigating the influence of the institutional organisation of agri-environmental schemes on scheme adoption

Land Use Policy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-30

  Mettepenningen, Evy ^a   Vandermeulen, Valerie ^a   Delaet, Katrien ^a   Van Huylenbroeck, Guido ^a   Wailes, Eric J ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Agri environmental schemes; Arkansas; Flanders; Institutional organisation

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; TRANSACTION COST;

ARKANSAS; BELGIUM; FLANDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871757701     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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