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Views of Primary Producers in the Taupo and Rotorua catchments: implications for water quality policy

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Botha, Neels
Parminter, Terry
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Lakes Taupo and Rotorua are important to New Zealand, but declining lake water quality is increasingly becoming a problem. Primary producers are said to be impacting heavily on the lakes' water quality through discharges that reach them through streams and ground water. The paper discusses the results of ongoing social research in the lakes' catchments. Data gathering was through literature reviews, interviews and workshops. The views, farming goals and perceived mediocre to poor adoptability of new environmental practices and technologies by primary producers in the lakes' catchments indicate that policy instruments encouraging voluntary change are unlikely to positively impact on water quality.

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Paper provided by New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in its series 2006 Conference, August 24-25, 2006, Nelson, New Zealand with number 31947.

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Keywords: Adoptability; policy instrument; farming goals; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;

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  1. Botha, Neels & Coutts, Jeff & Roth, Hein, 2006. "The Role of Agricultural Consultants in the New Zealand Research, Development and Extension System," 2006 Conference, August 24-25, 2006, Nelson, New Zealand 31971, New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. [Downloadable!]
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