A critical issue in behavioural environmental studies is the evolution of attitudes over time. This analysis reports a unique longitudinal study of individual farmers’ perspectives using Q methodology, with a group of UK farmers’ opinions assessed in both 2001 and 2008. Three main outcomes...

This paper addresses the issue of farmers' views concerning the perceived legitimacy of environmental cross compliance as a governance mechanism. Recent work on the theory of regulation emphasises the importance of the legitimacy ascribed to a regulation in determining the effectiveness with...

Public participation in environmental decisionmaking has become an accepted part of Western societies over the last three decades. Whereas on a simple level every democratic process based on aggregating individual preferences contains an element of public participation, the literature on...