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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Farmers' perceived risks of climate change and influencing factors: a study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam |
Author: | Dang, L. Li, E. Nuberg, I. Bruwer, J. |
Citation: | Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors, 2014; 54(2):331-345 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 0364-152X 1432-1009 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Hoa Le Dang, Elton Li, Ian Nuberg, Johan Bruwer |
Abstract: | Many countries are confronting climate change that threatens agricultural production and farmers’ lives. Farmers’ perceived risks of climate change and factors influencing those perceived risks are critical to their adaptive behavior and well-planned adaptation strategies. However, there is limited understanding of these issues. In this paper, we attempt to quantitatively measure farmers’ perceived risks of climate change and explore the influences of risk experience, information, belief in climate change, and trust in public adaptation to those perceived risks. Data are from structured interviews with 598 farmers in the Mekong Delta. The study shows that perceived risks to production, physical health, and income dimensions receive greater priority while farmers pay less attention to risks to happiness and social relationships. Experiences of the events that can be attributed to climate change increase farmers’ perceived risks. Information variables can increase or decrease perceived risks, depending on the sources of information. Farmers who believe that climate change is actually happening and influencing their family’s lives, perceive higher risks in most dimensions. Farmers who think that climate change is not their concern but the government’s, perceive lower risks to physical health, finance, and production. As to trust in public adaptation, farmers who believe that public adaptive measures are well co-ordinated, perceive lower risks to production and psychology. Interestingly, those who believe that the disaster warning system is working well, perceive higher risks to finance, production, and social relationships. Further attention is suggested for the quality, timing, and channels of information about climate change and adaptation. |
Keywords: | Belief in climate change; Climate change; Information; Perceived risk; Risk experience; Trust in public adaptation |
Rights: | © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00267-014-0299-6 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-014-0299-6 |
Appears in Collections: | Agriculture, Food and Wine publications Aurora harvest 7 |
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