Trading on risk
The moral logics and economic reasoning of North Carolina farmers in water quality trading markets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2048913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caela O’connell (0000-0002-5114-8270, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author), Caela O''Connell, Caela O'Connell, Marzieh Motallebi (Clemson University), Deanna L Osmond (0000-0002-6336-8318, North Carolina State University), Dana L Hoag (0000-0001-7660-6832, Colorado State University), Dana L K Hoag |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-238 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4847 • E-ISSN: 2330-4847 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/sea2.12090 |
| OpenAlex | W2620857337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 38 |
Water quality trading (WQT) is a popular policy for improving the quality of waterways across the United States by reducing water pollution. However, in established markets, few trades are happening, making environmental gains from WQT limited. Despite these trends, policy makers continue to implement this market-based approach to achieve clean water. Successful markets rely on stakeholders' willingness to buy and sell in the market, yet research has not focused on this aspect of WQT. The stakeholders involved in WQT are frequently farmers (as sellers) trading with developers and urban municipalities (as buyers). To better understand stakeholder decisions about WQT, this research sought to document barriers and catalysts for farmers participation in a brand-new WQT program in the Jordan Lake Watershed, North Carolina. Key findings from interviews with ninety farmers show that most have high conservation rates and know about local water problems. Nevertheless, they were unwilling or unlikely to participate in the program. We offer detailed evidence of the complex ways farmers calculate risk for farm practices and environmental health as an indication that their perceptions of risk and moral sensibilities involve a broader set of costs and values than accounted for in the WQT policy design, ultimately making trading unviable
Business · Economics · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Stakeholder · Water conservation · Water quality · Water resources · Water trading · Watershed · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Water resources management and optimization · Marketing
Does ecosystem services valuation reflect local cultural valuations? Comparative analysis of resident perspectives in four major urban river ecosystems
Water quality trading markets – Integrating land and marine based measures under a smart market approach
A methodology for using a multilevel perspective framework to analyze complex systems
Pollution, Health, and Disaster
The Anthropology of Water
Complicated Webs
Tidy Fields and Clean Shirts
A Place at the Well
The economic anthropology of water
A Handbook of Economic Anthropology
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer
Presidential Preface to Volume 30, Issue 1
Farmer Morality and Maryland's Nutrient Management Regulations
Controlling non-additional credits from nutrient management in water quality trading programs through eligibility baseline stringency
Does encouraging the use of wetlands in water quality trading programs make economic sense
The Ethics of Constrained Choice
Moral logic and logical morality
The problem with the farmer’s voice
Understanding the nested, multi-scale, spatial and hierarchical nature of future climate change adaptation decision making in agricultural regions
NatureTM Inc
Moving Pollution Trading from Air to Water
It is value that brings universes into being
"Introduction
Ethics, evaluation, and economies of value amidst illegal practices
Risk Concerns among Latino Farmers in Missouri
Seeds of Persistence
Herd Management
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |