Meeting targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture will require the implementation of effective mitigation measures. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently recognised that to succeed we need to understand more about the conditions within which mitigation measures are applied, and for this, they note, we need insights from social science disciplines including sociology. We addressed this knowledge gap by using the concept of path‐dependency and lock‐in to explore barriers to change in dairy/beef systems in Norway. A qualitative survey of 29 farms found that changing parenting, recreational and spousal role expectations are driving farmers towards intensification (and thus higher emissions) in order to purchase milking robots, which, in turn, provide increased time for the expected role changes. Structural change is thus predominantly directed towards farm continuity which is making it increasingly difficult to meet mitigation targets in the future. The study illustrates how mitigation measures might be made more effective by understanding and addressing the broader cultural/structural environment within which farmers and their families operate.

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文化锁定和减少温室气体排放：以挪威的奶牛场/牛肉场为例

要实现减少农业温室气体排放的目标，就需要实施有效的缓解措施。政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）最近认识到，要取得成功，我们需要更多地了解采取缓解措施的条件，为此，他们指出，我们需要社会科学学科（包括社会学）的见识。我们通过使用路径依赖和锁定的概念来解决这一知识鸿沟，从而探索挪威奶牛/牛肉系统变革的障碍。对29个农场进行的定性调查发现，改变育儿，娱乐和配偶角色的期望，正促使农民趋向集约化（因此排放量增加），以便购买挤奶机器人，从而为预期的角色转变提供了更多的时间。因此，结构变化主要是针对农场的连续性，这使得将来越来越难以实现减排目标。该研究表明，如何通过了解和解决农民及其家庭经营的更广泛的文化/结构环境，如何使缓解措施更加有效。