Abstract
Daloğlu, I., J. I. Nassauer, R. Riolo, and D. Scavia. 2014. An integrated social and ecological modeling framework—impacts of agricultural conservation practices on water quality. Ecology and Society 19(3): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06597-190312
Highlights
Agricultural policy in the USA strongly impacts the land use and land management decisions of farmers and indirectly, but profoundly, impacts water quality (Broussard et al 2012)
We describe an social–ecological system (SES) model to investigate the impact of different plausible future policy and land tenure scenarios on farmer adoption of conservation practices intended to enhance water quality
Most empirical research concludes that operators control decisions regarding production and adoption of conservation practices on farmland owned by nonoperators (Constance et al 1996, Soule et al 2000, Arbuckle 2010); we investigate land tenure dynamics, the possible impact of the growing proportion of farmland owned by nonoperators, and their influence on adoption decisions
Summary
Agricultural policy in the USA strongly impacts the land use and land management decisions of farmers and indirectly, but profoundly, impacts water quality (Broussard et al 2012). The current resurgence of eutrophication symptoms in the Great Lakes is attributed to the intensification in agricultural production and concomitant soil erosion and nutrient runoff from nonpoint sources (Dolan and Chapra 2012). To address these issues, conservation practices, such as conservation tillage, filter strips, land retirement, and nutrient management—the focus of this research—are employed to mitigate sediment and nonpoint source nutrient delivery, enhance water quality, and improve sustainability in agricultural production by increasing resilience (National Research Council 2010)
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