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• Kuehne, G. (n.d.). The Influence of Values and Attitudes Towards Family, Land, Water, Community, Lifestyle, and Profit on Farmers’ Behaviour. University of South Australia.
• Kuehne, G., & Bjornlund, H. (2008). The influence of irrigators’ attitudes and objectives on their decision making. Hydrological Research Letters, 2, 27–31.
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• Willock, J., Deary, I. J., McGregor, M. M., Sutherland, A., Edwards-Jones, G., Morgan, O., … Austin, E. (1999). Farmers’ Attitudes, Objectives, Behaviors, and Personality Traits: The Edinburgh Study of Decision Making on Farms. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54(1), 5–36.
• Zhang, W. (2014). A structural equation modeling approach to factors that influence farmers’ behaviour and behavioural intentions towards water policy changes (Thesis). Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Economics. Retrieved from