DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2016.11.004
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85008147376
论文题名: Climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and adaptation behavior among Midwestern U.S. crop farmers
作者: Mase A.S. ; Gramig B.M. ; Prokopy L.S.
刊名: Climate Risk Management
ISSN: 22120963
出版年: 2017
卷: 15 起始页码: 8
结束页码: 17
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Adaptation behavior
; Agriculture
; Climate change
; Risk management
英文摘要: Global climate change presents unique challenges to the resilience of United States agriculture, and farmers and advisors must utilize effective adaptation strategies to be both economically and environmentally sustainable. This study addresses Midwestern U.S. crop farmers’ beliefs about climate change, perceived risks from weather and climate, and attitudes toward adaptation that influence their decisions to adopt adaptation strategies. Analyzing a 2012 survey of nearly 5000 corn farmers across 22 Midwestern U.S. Watersheds, we investigate the most common weather and climate risk management strategies, including purchasing additional crop insurance, implementing conservation practices, and adding new technology. U.S. farmers’ belief in anthropogenic climate change, perceptions of changing weather patterns, climate risks to their farm and attitudes toward adapting are analyzed. Farmers’ perceptions of risk to their own farm, attitudes toward innovation and adaptation attitudes were the most important determinants of adaptation. This study highlights the critical role of risk perceptions in adaptation attitudes as well as behaviors among agriculturalists. Finally, we discuss how these findings could be applied to increase uptake of adaptation strategies and thus resilience of U.S. agriculture to a changing climate. © 2016 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/58962
Appears in Collections: 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of Community, Natural Resources and Economic Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 445 Henry Mall, Madison, WI, United States; Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 403 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Department of Forestry and Natural Resources and Purdue Climate Change Research Center, Purdue University, 195 Marsteller Street, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Recommended Citation:
Mase A.S.,Gramig B.M.,Prokopy L.S.. Climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and adaptation behavior among Midwestern U.S. crop farmers[J]. Climate Risk Management,2017-01-01,15