Rob J F Burton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1018522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob J F Burton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob J F |
| FAMILY NAME | Burton |
| SIGNATURE | BURTON R J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruralis - Institute for Rural and Regional Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6911-9999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1014 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Ethnomethodology and the tourist experience
The impact of “artificial wool” on the New Zealand wool industry: Lessons for future substitution transitions in the agricultural sector
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway
Psychological factors influencing consumer intentions to consume cultured meat, fish and dairy
This study investigates the structure of factors that influence consumer intentions to both try and to consume cultured proteins, and their intentions to substitute vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets with these alternative protein sources. Comprehensive survey data (N = 3862) was collected from three Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, and Norway) and analysed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. Theoretically, …
Promoting climate change mitigation in agriculture: Do we need to account for farm family life-cycle
Family farms go through cyclical stages of development and contraction as a result of the overlapping of business goals and generational changes. This ‘farm family life-cycle’ results in periods within which farm families are highly innovative and farmers willing to invest, and other periods where innovativeness and investment are highly unlikely. Within the climate change mitigation literature, innovativeness and willingness to invest have been …
Path dependencies in Norwegian dairy and beef farming communities: Implications for climate mitigation
Within Norwegian agriculture, combined dairy and beef production has been identified as a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and thus targeted for significant reductions. The article examines the path dependency of the dairy and beef production system in Norway and focuses on identifying lock-ins. The authors used qualitative methods to gather information from stakeholder meetings in Trøndelag and Rogaland counties. They explored the stakeh…
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media
Cellular food technologies aim to decouple animal protein production from animal bodies and address the negative environmental, ethical, and human health implications of animal agriculture through its substitution. This marks a major rupture with previous expectations for agricultural biotechnology. If technically and commercially successful cellular agriculture could have far reaching effects that have yet to be the subject of concerted public o…
Should we use email for farm surveys? A comparative study of email and postal survey response rate and non-response bias
The Good Farmer: Culture and Identity in Food and Agriculture
Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies, providing a springboard for future research. The concept of the good farmer has emerged in recent years as part of a move away from attitude and economic-based understandings of farm decision-mak…
The impact of wolves on psychological distress among farmers in Norway
Cultural Lock-in and Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Case of Dairy/Beef Farmers in Norway
Meeting targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture will require the implementation of effective mitigation measures. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently recognised that to succeed we need to understand more about the conditions within which mitigation measures are applied, and for this, they note, we need insights from social science disciplines including sociology. We addressed this knowledge gap…
The potential impact of synthetic animal protein on livestock production: The new “war against agriculture”
Traditional Ecological Knowledge from the internet? The case of hay meadows in Europe
Adaptive biodiversity management of semi-natural hay meadows: The case of West-Norway
In Norway the Agri-Environment Scheme The Action Plan for Hay Meadows (APHM) was implemented in 2009. • Using an interdisciplinary approach involving ecologists and social scientists, we examined the adaptive management approach the APHM. • The APHM showed to be a success, but perhaps only in the short term. • Safeguarding biodiversity in the red listed nature type semi-natural hay meadow depend on multiple factors. • The APHM have to allow manag…
Limited adoption of short rotation coppice: The role of farmers' socio-cultural identity in influencing practice
Neo-productivist’ agriculture: Spatio-temporal versus structuralist perspectives
Predicting farmers’ water conservation goals and behavior in Iran: A test of social cognitive theory
The Succession Crisis in E uropean Agriculture
This article addresses the issues raised by C hiswell and L obley concerning our publication ‘ U nderstanding F arm S uccession as S ocially C onstructed E ndogenous C ycles'. Our response rebuts C hiswell and L obley's criticisms of the article and assembles evidence from the literature to suggest that in a number of countries and regions of E urope, farm succession failure is at crisis levels. We suggest that the primary source of C hiswell and…
The influence of farmer demographic characteristics on environmental behaviour: A review
Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
European agriculture is experiencing a recruitment crisis that threatens the continuation of both family farming and associated rural communities. Conventionally, researchers and policymakers see farm succession as driven by discrete factors such as education level, farm size, profitability, enterprise type, and so on. This article offers an alternative perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 farm families in Scotland, it uses a singl…
Toward effective nature conservation on farmland: Making farmers matter
Until now the main instrument to counteract the loss of biodiversity and landscape quality in the European countryside has been agri‐environment schemes (AES), which offer short‐term payments for performing prescribed environmental management behaviors. In our opinion this approach is, in its current set‐up, not a sustainable way of enhancing biodiversity and landscape quality. Here we will argue that conservation in agricultural areas is also a …
Considering the source: Commercialisation and trust in agri-environmental information and advisory services in England
Drivers of change in Norwegian agricultural land control and the emergence of rental farming
Norway represents one of the last countries in Europe where the structural development of agriculture is strongly state regulated through legislation and economic instruments. The result is an agriculture dominated by very small farms while, in most of the rest of Europe, farming has been rationalised into much larger units – thus improving the structural efficiency of agriculture. This study looks at how and why the pattern of farmland control (…
Market liberalisation and drought in New Zealand: A case of ‘double exposure’ for dryland sheep farmers
Triggering change: Towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making
Seeing Through the 'Good Farmer's' Eyes: Towards Developing an Understanding of the Social Symbolic Value of 'Productivist' Behaviour
Injecting social psychology theory into conceptualisations of agricultural agency: Towards a post-productivist farmer self-identity
Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes
Exploring Farmers' Cultural Resistance to Voluntary Agri-environmental Schemes
Studies throughout Europe have suggested that voluntary agri-environmental programmes often engender very little change in attitudes towards productivist agriculture among conventional farming communities. This study examines why this may be so, using case studies from Hessen, Germany and Aberdeenshire, Scotland. By constructing a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's notions of capital we explore how farming activities are able to generate sy…
Result-oriented agri-environmental schemes in Europe and their potential for promoting behavioural change
Reconceptualising the ‘behavioural approach’ in agricultural studies: A socio-psychological perspective
Neo-productivist’ agriculture: Spatio-temporal versus structuralist perspectives
Good Farmers, Good Neighbours? The Role of Cultural Capital in Social Capital Development in a Scottish Farming Community
Recent decades have seen a gradual erosion of farming incomes across the UK due to falling commodity prices and changes to the subsidy regime. This study examines what resources farmers are able to access informally and how this 'social capital' is generated and maintained in farming communities. Using a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's conceptualisations of social and cultural capital, this study explores the evolving informal exchange r…
Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
European agriculture is experiencing a recruitment crisis that threatens the continuation of both family farming and associated rural communities. Conventionally, researchers and policymakers see farm succession as driven by discrete factors such as education level, farm size, profitability, enterprise type, and so on. This article offers an alternative perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 farm families in Scotland, it uses a singl…
Understanding Farmers' Aesthetic Preference for Tidy Agricultural Landscapes: A Bourdieusian Perspective
Studies of landscape aesthetics based on photographic assessment indicate that farmers have a unique perspective—seeing beauty in the same ordered and controlled arable agricultural landscapes that almost all other publics find monotonous and boring. This paper uses Bourdieu's theory of capital to explore why farmers hold this perspective. Interpretations farmers place on ‘tidy’ features such as straight lines and evenly coloured fields were expl…
Building ‘cowshed cultures’: A cultural perspective on the promotion of stockmanship and animal welfare on dairy farms
Drivers of change in Norwegian agricultural land control and the emergence of rental farming
Norway represents one of the last countries in Europe where the structural development of agriculture is strongly state regulated through legislation and economic instruments. The result is an agriculture dominated by very small farms while, in most of the rest of Europe, farming has been rationalised into much larger units – thus improving the structural efficiency of agriculture. This study looks at how and why the pattern of farmland control (…
Multiple succession and land division on family farms in the South East of England: A counterbalance to agricultural concentration
The Succession Crisis in E uropean Agriculture
This article addresses the issues raised by C hiswell and L obley concerning our publication ‘ U nderstanding F arm S uccession as S ocially C onstructed E ndogenous C ycles'. Our response rebuts C hiswell and L obley's criticisms of the article and assembles evidence from the literature to suggest that in a number of countries and regions of E urope, farm succession failure is at crisis levels. We suggest that the primary source of C hiswell and…
Limited adoption of short rotation coppice: The role of farmers' socio-cultural identity in influencing practice
The Yellow Pages as a sampling frame for farm surveys: Assessing potential bias in agri-environmental research
An alternative to farmer age as an indicator of life-cycle stage: The case for a farm family age index
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media
Cellular food technologies aim to decouple animal protein production from animal bodies and address the negative environmental, ethical, and human health implications of animal agriculture through its substitution. This marks a major rupture with previous expectations for agricultural biotechnology. If technically and commercially successful cellular agriculture could have far reaching effects that have yet to be the subject of concerted public o…
The potential impact of synthetic animal protein on livestock production: The new “war against agriculture”
Predicting farmers’ water conservation goals and behavior in Iran: A test of social cognitive theory
Should we use email for farm surveys? A comparative study of email and postal survey response rate and non-response bias
Traditional Ecological Knowledge from the internet? The case of hay meadows in Europe
Market liberalisation and drought in New Zealand: A case of ‘double exposure’ for dryland sheep farmers
Psychological factors influencing consumer intentions to consume cultured meat, fish and dairy
This study investigates the structure of factors that influence consumer intentions to both try and to consume cultured proteins, and their intentions to substitute vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets with these alternative protein sources. Comprehensive survey data (N = 3862) was collected from three Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, and Norway) and analysed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. Theoretically, …
The impact of wolves on psychological distress among farmers in Norway
Concentration Countdown
The End of the Independent Daily Newspaper
Participation and the Mathematics Deterrent
Access and targeting: An exploration of a contradiction
To attempt to understand Access to Higher Education provision as an educational social movement is to become caught up in a dialectial dilemma. Is Access allied to the older radical traditions of adult education through a collective emancipatory role or is its role to serve the educational needs of the individual student and/or the economic needs of society? Research carried out at the University of Exeter has shown that while there is a strong r…
The Yellow Pages as a sampling frame for farm surveys: Assessing potential bias in agri-environmental research
Reconceptualising the ‘behavioural approach’ in agricultural studies: A socio-psychological perspective
Seeing Through the 'Good Farmer's' Eyes: Towards Developing an Understanding of the Social Symbolic Value of 'Productivist' Behaviour
Multiple succession and land division on family farms in the South East of England: A counterbalance to agricultural concentration
Injecting social psychology theory into conceptualisations of agricultural agency: Towards a post-productivist farmer self-identity
An alternative to farmer age as an indicator of life-cycle stage: The case for a farm family age index
Exploring Farmers' Cultural Resistance to Voluntary Agri-environmental Schemes
Studies throughout Europe have suggested that voluntary agri-environmental programmes often engender very little change in attitudes towards productivist agriculture among conventional farming communities. This study examines why this may be so, using case studies from Hessen, Germany and Aberdeenshire, Scotland. By constructing a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's notions of capital we explore how farming activities are able to generate sy…
Motives behind willingness to pay for improving biodiversity in a water ecosystem: Economics, ethics and social psychology
Understanding and influencing behaviour change by farmers to improve water quality
Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes
Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research
Our contemporary social and ecological problems, including climate change, peak oil and food security, necessitate solutions informed by multiple backgrounds that singular disciplines seem unable to provide, and possibly, are even incapable of providing. The increasing occurrence of multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary (MIT) research projects speak to the recognition of that necessity. But as the literature and our own experiences bear out, just …
Good Farmers, Good Neighbours? The Role of Cultural Capital in Social Capital Development in a Scottish Farming Community
Recent decades have seen a gradual erosion of farming incomes across the UK due to falling commodity prices and changes to the subsidy regime. This study examines what resources farmers are able to access informally and how this 'social capital' is generated and maintained in farming communities. Using a conceptual framework based on Bourdieu's conceptualisations of social and cultural capital, this study explores the evolving informal exchange r…
Triggering change: Towards a conceptualisation of major change processes in farm decision-making
Building ‘cowshed cultures’: A cultural perspective on the promotion of stockmanship and animal welfare on dairy farms
Understanding Farmers' Aesthetic Preference for Tidy Agricultural Landscapes: A Bourdieusian Perspective
Studies of landscape aesthetics based on photographic assessment indicate that farmers have a unique perspective—seeing beauty in the same ordered and controlled arable agricultural landscapes that almost all other publics find monotonous and boring. This paper uses Bourdieu's theory of capital to explore why farmers hold this perspective. Interpretations farmers place on ‘tidy’ features such as straight lines and evenly coloured fields were expl…
Result-oriented agri-environmental schemes in Europe and their potential for promoting behavioural change
Toward effective nature conservation on farmland: Making farmers matter
Until now the main instrument to counteract the loss of biodiversity and landscape quality in the European countryside has been agri‐environment schemes (AES), which offer short‐term payments for performing prescribed environmental management behaviors. In our opinion this approach is, in its current set‐up, not a sustainable way of enhancing biodiversity and landscape quality. Here we will argue that conservation in agricultural areas is also a …
Considering the source: Commercialisation and trust in agri-environmental information and advisory services in England
Drivers of change in Norwegian agricultural land control and the emergence of rental farming
Norway represents one of the last countries in Europe where the structural development of agriculture is strongly state regulated through legislation and economic instruments. The result is an agriculture dominated by very small farms while, in most of the rest of Europe, farming has been rationalised into much larger units – thus improving the structural efficiency of agriculture. This study looks at how and why the pattern of farmland control (…
Market liberalisation and drought in New Zealand: A case of ‘double exposure’ for dryland sheep farmers
The influence of farmer demographic characteristics on environmental behaviour: A review
Understanding Farm Succession as Socially Constructed Endogenous Cycles
European agriculture is experiencing a recruitment crisis that threatens the continuation of both family farming and associated rural communities. Conventionally, researchers and policymakers see farm succession as driven by discrete factors such as education level, farm size, profitability, enterprise type, and so on. This article offers an alternative perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 farm families in Scotland, it uses a singl…
Agriculture (27 works) · Economics (27 works) · Geography (27 works) · Business (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Rural development and sustainability (16 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Social science (10 works)