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Changes in farmer perceptions towards soil conservation and management in north-west Tasmania.

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Australian commonwealth and state government resources have been directed to changing farmers' attitudes towards soil conservation and to implementing changes in land management practices. This effort has been focused by the Landcare movement, which began in 1988, and by the Commonwealth government's declaration of the Decade of Landcare in 1990 (Roberts, 1993). Surveys of farmers' attitudes and behaviour show that land degradation is primarily a social, rather than a technical problem and that solutions to land degradation are not adopted for a wide variety of social, economic, cultural, perceptual and situational reasons (Nowak, 1992; Rickson et al, 1988; ...

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