An analysis of oriented characteristics and influential factors of farmers'adaptation to climate change in 10 representative counties and cities of Hubei Province
Based on the field survey of 847 rice farmers from 10 representative counties (cities) including Wuxue and Zhijiang in Hubei Province, this study used the econometrical analytic method of binary probit model to study the oriented characteristics and influential factors of farmers' adaptation to climate change. The conclusions revealed that farmers had the highest proportion of labor-oriented climate change adaptive behavior, which accounted for more than 65% . While the proportion of technology-oriented climate change adaptive behavior was the lowest and was accounting for less than a half. Besides, climate change perception, land renting, gender of the household head, family farming labors, production training and other factors had various and significant impacts on farmers' implementation of different characteristic-oriented climate adaptive behaviors. Among them, as for labor-oriented and technology-oriented adaptive behaviors, farmers who perceived the irregular rainfall had 29.1% and 18.8% of higher probabilities of implementation respectively than who didn't perceive, and those who rented the land had 10.9% and 7.5% of higher probabilities of implementation as to the two adaptation behaviors. Finally, policies and suggestions such as reducing the institutional cost of adapting to climate change and broadening the route of climate information were put forwarded in this study.