TY - EJOUR AB - It has long been assumed ownership gives farmers incentives to act as stewards for the land. On this basis, quasi-property rights are granted to fish farmers to encourage them to manage risks to the aquatic environment. This paper offers an empirically grounded theorization of fish farmers’ perspectives on these issues. Data were gathered via field research with Scottish salmon farmers who had switched from conventional to organic fish farmers’ risk management strategies offer little support for the view that property rights automatically create incentives for stewardship of the marine environment. AU - Georgakopoulos, Georgios AU - Ciancanelli, Penelope AU - Coulson, Andrea AU - Kaldis, Panayiotis DA - 2008-07 DA - 2008-07 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.101053 DO - doi ED - Mattas, Konstadinos ED - editor EP - 30 EP - 16 ID - 101053 IS - 2 JF - Agricultural Economics Review KW - Agricultural and Food Policy KW - Risk KW - organic KW - fish farming KW - grounded theory L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/101053/files/9_2_2.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/101053/files/9_2_2.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/101053/files/9_2_2.pdf LA - eng LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/101053/files/9_2_2.pdf N2 - It has long been assumed ownership gives farmers incentives to act as stewards for the land. On this basis, quasi-property rights are granted to fish farmers to encourage them to manage risks to the aquatic environment. This paper offers an empirically grounded theorization of fish farmers’ perspectives on these issues. Data were gathered via field research with Scottish salmon farmers who had switched from conventional to organic fish farmers’ risk management strategies offer little support for the view that property rights automatically create incentives for stewardship of the marine environment. PY - 2008-07 PY - 2008-07 SP - 16 T1 - Stewardship and Risk: An Empirically Grounded Theory of Organic Fish Farming in Scotland TI - Stewardship and Risk: An Empirically Grounded Theory of Organic Fish Farming in Scotland UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/101053/files/9_2_2.pdf VL - 09 Y1 - 2008-07 T2 - Agricultural Economics Review ER -