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Excerpt from Adoption and Diffusion of Innovative Irrigation and Drainage Management Technologies and Practices: A Sociological Perspective This report reviews the factors that have been found to be of primary importance in farm owners'/managers' decision-making processes. It then proposes a conceptual model of the adoption process and a set of matrices for evaluating innovative irrigation and drainage technologies and management practices that might be recommended as partial solutions to the drainage problems in the San Joaquin Valley. The model is then used to outline the type of analysis that could be undertaken to evaluate policies and strategies designed to encourage adeption and diffusion of these innovations. Based on this examination, key uncertainties and unanswered questions are identified. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.