Evaluation by simulation of the social acceptability of agricultural policies for water quality

Abstract

The Concert'Eau is a three years project launched in October 2006 to demonstrate the opportunity to involve agricultural actors of a territory to propose and apply new practices more in line with the need for preservation of water resources and natural environments. We present in this paper the sociological dimension of this multidisciplinary work, which focused on the evaluation of the social acceptability of these practices. This evaluation is based on the formalization of a well-experienced social theory, the Sociology of the Organized Action. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.