The social life of sustainability incentives
Recognition infrastructures and the politics of change in a soil health program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24228257 |
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| Authors | Michael Carolan (0000-0002-2691-0454), Adam Snitker, James Hale (0000-0002-4144-9117) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2026-08-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agriculture and Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0889-048X • E-ISSN: 1572-8366 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10460-026-10946-x |
| OpenAlex | W7197014070 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 59 |
Agricultural policy · institutional ties · politics of change · soil stewardship · sustainability incentives · trust and reputation · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation
Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders
Motivation Crowding Theory
Social norms and energy conservation
Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States
Economic Incentives and Social Preferences
What Happens When Payments End? Fostering Long-Term Behavior Change With Financial Incentives
The Shadow of the Consumer
Sorting Things Out
Economic Action and Social Structure
Social identity and pro-environmental behavior—a scoping review
Farmer identities
What drives the solar energy transition? The effect of policies, incentives and behavior in a cross-country comparison
How agricultural producers use local knowledge, climate information, and on-farm “experiments” to address drought risk
When justifications are mistaken for motivations
Reconstructing the good farmer identity
Farmer identities and responses to the social–biophysical environment
The farmer as a landscape steward
Embeddedness and local food systems
Climate change and pro-sustainable behaviors
Finding our way through the fog
Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism
Seeing Through the 'Good Farmer's' Eyes
Exploring Farmers' Cultural Resistance to Voluntary Agri-environmental Schemes
Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model
When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior
Do You See What I See? Examining the Epistemic Barriers to Sustainable Agriculture
Commensuration as a Social Process
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
A Dryland Cropping Revolution? Linking an Emerging Soil Health Paradigm with Shifting Social Fields among Wheat Growers of the High Plains
Where the Grass Grows Again
| Highly cited | No |
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