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Published in: Ambio 5/2014

01-09-2014 | Report

Managing Manure from China’s Pigs and Poultry: The Influence of Ecological Rationality

Authors: Chaohui Zheng, Bettina Bluemling, Yi Liu, Arthur P. J. Mol, Jining Chen

Published in: Ambio | Issue 5/2014

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Abstract

We have investigated manure management practices at three farm scales in Chinese pig and poultry production. The concept of ecological rationality was employed to explore empirically how environmental concerns drive adoption of environmental-friendly manure management technologies at different farm scales. The more developed Rudong County in Jiangsu Province and the less developed Zhongjiang County in Sichuan Province were chosen as cases for study of 258 animal breeders. On the contrary to our hypothesis, medium-scale farmers were not always found to be laggards in adoption of manure management technologies. Government ecological rationality played a key role to induce environmental-friendly technology adoption on its own, but also in cooperation with ecologically rational individual or network drivers. Authorities no longer applied their efforts in a conventional command-and-control way, but more in the form of incentives, stimulation, and information to farmers. Individual farmers in general showed low environmental responsibility in relation to manure handling.
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Metadata
Title
Managing Manure from China’s Pigs and Poultry: The Influence of Ecological Rationality
Authors
Chaohui Zheng
Bettina Bluemling
Yi Liu
Arthur P. J. Mol
Jining Chen
Publication date
01-09-2014
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Ambio / Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0044-7447
Electronic ISSN: 1654-7209
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-013-0438-y

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