THE FARM FAMILY LIFE CYCLE, SUCCESSION PATHS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN'S COUNTRYSIDE
基于英国169个1公里方格的土地占有者问卷调查和环境数据，研究了农场经营与土地覆盖变化的关系，发现继承过程是农场经营和环境变化的关键转折点。
Research into the physical extent and rate of recent environmental change in the British countryside is at a more advanced stage than that concerned with causes and processes. This paper presents findings from a project designed to introduce a socio‐economic component into the Government's Countryside Surveys. Based on a questionnaire survey of occupiers with land in 169 1 km squares across Britain and a linked analysis of environmental and farm survey data, it examines the connection between farm business and land cover change in the squares. Different trajectories of farm business, and hence environmental, change are defined and related to lifecycle effects and influences associated with succession. A conclusion is that the processes of succession and inheritance are continuing to define critical transitions during which farm business, and hence environmental change, is most likely to be taking place.