The Land and Water Management Plans (LWMPs) developed for the irrigation districts in the Murray region of NSW are said to be at the forefront of institutional innovation for integrated resource management. Farmers have been strongly involved both in the development of the Plans (for which...

Many explanations of agricultural technology adoption have either been based loosely on diffusion concepts and have ignored economic factors or have been static economic models that ignore dynamic and spatial aspects of adoption. In this paper we propose a model of adoption which incorporates...