Farmers' stated preference analysis towards resources use under alternative policy scenarios

Land Use Policy

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 145-155

  Giannoccaro, Giacomo ^a   Berbel, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Common Agricultural Policy; Environmental sustainability; Farmer's stated behaviour; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; FARMING SYSTEM; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84871931148     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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